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10 years of FIF
Every big coach has his own so-called flops and bad calls along the way - Mourinho, Ancelotti, Heynckes, Ferguson, Benitez, Pep,.....
I definately agree - Pep has no plan b. Said that before, even on FIF. Winning the league was something everybody expected from him, and still he gets less props just because it's Bundesliga and he has the strongest club there. Not along ago Borussia was Bayern's bane, even tho Bayern was playing brilliantly. This year Borussia had a few bad months in the league, but nobody attacks Klopp because of that. Seems a bit unfair.
Klopp and Pep are both brilliant coaches. It's because of Barcelona's brilliance under Pep that other teams like Real Madrid got a lot stronger, because they wanted to overcome this Catalan obstacle. So now you have a team like Real honing their skills to overthrow Barcelona, buying fast counterattacking players (CR, Di Maria, Isco, Bale) and Ancelotti making Pepe and Ramos looking a lot better than Mourinho ever did, to be honest.....and Pep making Bayern play like Barcelona.
Like I said - brilliant coaches. But not brilliant tacticians. I blame Klopp for Dortmund losing to Real. Just like I blame Pep for Bayern losing to Real. (funny, Real played against 3 german teams this year)
Pep won the league and reached the CL semifinals in his first year, that's still something people always give Mourinho props. I admit, losing like that at home is a big no-no, but still.. dude has some great ideas that work with the right players. I doubt this is Pep's last year at Bayern, he is probably going to slowly integrate new people into the squad, that's one of the reasons he was brought there. As soon as the old guard goes, you'll see what the 'new' generation of Bayern can do.
I hope people won't start saying Ribery and Robben ain't great players, that they are chokers and shit like that, because their contributions don't deserve that. Sure, yesterday was bad and Ribery hasn't been himself lately (2014 is not a good year for him, I wonder what happened), but the football world should give props where props are due - Ribery and Robben are the type of players I'd like at Inter.
If i hate to suck robbens dick in order to get him to inter, i would it. Thats how much i want a player like robben or ribery in inter
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It wasnt Klopps fault against RM. If RM had Ronaldo to take penalty in BvBs stadium, game would have been over long before.
In fact, I give him credit for taking adv of Ancelottis complacency, as he has long history of blowing huge leads.
RM is just simply 3-4 times better than BvB individually playing similar styles. No way around it.
No they are not, bvb were missing half their team, 5 starters i believe and yet real barely scraped through in the second leg.