Birdy
Senior Member
I also agree with BBZ on this style require a more specific and more talented batch to execute well.
Also, there was a big segment on Sky Sports a year ago with Neville and Carragher on best English team of all time. They used the following points metric.
https://www.skysports.com/football/...-neville-rank-the-greatest-english-club-sides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ZFRjy0Dcg
Someone ran this metric for all European teams and got the following:
1. Ajax (1970-1973) - 30 pts
2. Barcelona (2008-2011) - 28 pts
=3. Steaua Bucharest (1985-1988), Real Madrid (2015-2018) - 25 pts
=4. Real Madrid (1956-1959), Celtic (1966-1969), Bayern Munich (1973-1976) - 24 pts
=5. Real Madrid (1955-1958), Liverpool (1975-1978) - 23 pts
=6. Real Madrid (1957-1960), Barcelona (2014-2017), Bayern Munich (2017-2020) - 22 pts
=7. Inter (1963-1966) , PSV Eindhoven (1986-1989), Red Star Belgrade (1989-1992), Man Utd (2006-2009) - 21 pts
=8. Benfica (1959-1962), Liverpool (1981-1984), AC Milan (1991-1994), Ajax (1993-1996), Juventus (1995-1998), Man Utd (1998-2001), Porto (2002-2005), Inter (2007-2010) - 20 pts
=9. AC Milan (1987-1990), Real Madrid (1999-2002) - 19 pts
=10. Nottingham Forest (1977-1980), Juventus (1983-1986), Barcelona (1990-1993), AC Milan (1992-1995) - 18 pts
11. Porto (1984-1987) - 16 pts
=12. Stade de Reims (1957-1960), Marseille (1990-1993), AC Milan (2002-2005) - 15 pts
So while the pref of styles is subjective, there also appears to be an objective component - Look at the separation between Ajax and Barcelona and the rest. Hard to execute but legendary/memorable AND highest results at the same time.
There are two caveats here:
1) The point system itself.
It's very subjective how many points exactly are allocated for each trophy, and it's quite hard to come up with an objective quantification of that
2)The parsing of the period.
It's all nice to stipulate only 3-yr periods for each team compared, but it doesn't really work like that as the year interval can vary
Pep's Barca ended in 2012, not 2011. That would mean more points in total but in 4 seasons.
A solution would be to calculate all points across all seasons a certain team actually existed, and then calculate a point/season metric