Thing is you see the lineup after the improvements Sterling, Sané, Jesus, even De Bruyne have made.
Before Pep came Fernandinho was rated below Xhaka, Sterling was not rated very highly, Sané was a young, big talent, but not a sure bet…
It’s hard not to tie up what we already know about players when looking at a lineup now, but those are both pretty powerful XIs, the problem is ours plays below standard because it has a poor manager who can’t elicit quality football.
God you don’t half talk some shit. Imagine if you were so critical in your judgment of Wenger as you are with Guardiola. Incredibly fucking bloody obvious agenda is incredibly fucking bloody obvious agenda.
The first bit isn’t what you said. The second bit is less than 400m which is obviously still bloody huge either way. Edit: I see you said dollars so yea probably about 450m.
Not net - I did this analysis before for all the top teams and it is in the board somewhere. This last year they had net of about 100MM Euros. Year before net 36MM Euros. Year before that 67 million Euros. So last 3 years their net (according to transfer market) was about 200MM Euros.
My personal opinion on Wenger is even if he could spend huge amounts he’d be reluctant, for the reason that an insane amount of pressure would come with it and he’d have zero excuses when he fails.
Real Madrid and Chelsea have spent just as exorbitant amounts comparative to the markets, and not won a CL. You’re talking pure shit just because it hurts for you to expose the fact you know little about football or Guardiola and have been talking shit about him for years, only for the overwhelming evidence now that he’s dominating the one league you follow to leave you grasping at new straws.
That proves that Guardiola is a great manager.
He has almost the same players he had last season, yet he has turned them from a club scraping in the top four to one of the best ever PL clubs.
Players like Delph, Sterling, Kompany, Walker, Stones are not world class players, and most of the first team players weren’t bought by Guardiola, so it must be down to him rather than just the spending.
Guardiola is one of the greatest managers of all time. I think if you were to ask the players who have played under him who they have learnt the most from - many will point to Pep.
On an individual level, many of his players have improved a substantial amount under him.
Ignore the money for a moment and focus on the Football level - no manager would replicate the way he plays and the sheer quality of coaching on display even if they spent the same amount on the same players.