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Guardiola's strengths are Mourinho's weaknesses and vice versa.
Guardiola is an outstanding coach. He gets his principles across, stands by them and pays extreme attention to detail to make them habitual among his players. That's why at it's best (Barcelona 2011) it was like clockwork. But that team was a little too perfect. Felt scripted in a way. The Barca 2009 side with Etoo, Henry, Toure combined wonderful skill with some punch to it. It had it's flaws and shouldn't have made it to the final. But it was more like the football I like whereas the 2011 side was a efficient machine. The final itself was in the balance until Messi scored a header But in Guardiola's eyes he needed to push on some people to perfect his vision of football. When he walked through the door he straight away binned big players like Ronaldinho and Deco, after winning the treble he got rid of Etoo and Toure. He dispensed of Zlatan quickly. All great players and big personalities who he felt wouldn't line up in his way so he didn't waste time trying. He'd rather find another solution and prefers younger players who are reciprocal to new ideas and can be moulded into new positions and roles. Mourinho is not someone whose achievements I admired. His track record is great but his teams played the underdog tag too often when the money behind them and the quality they had were worthy of "playing like champions" if you will. People say he is not the same manager since the Real Madrid stint and perhaps that may be true because at that club he had to approach every game on the front foot and politics at the club interfered with his work. But even then the big games he went into a shell. But he can galvanise a group of players and manage the big personalities. He does have a very good big game record even if his manner of getting them is unimpressive. If he combines the front foot style of play and implements his own tactical variations we could be a dynamite force to be reckoned with. But I don't want us to fall in line what he typically has been about which is conservative football by design. Positive performances will yield results in the long run. He no longer has to just look at the short term since he's where he always wanted to be, and the club have bent over backwards to appoint him. |
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Sounds like we should have got the good manager of the weak. Seeing we're weak. I wouldn't have been heartbroken if the roles were reversed but I knew that was never going to happen, with their stacking the marketing department with ex Barcelona suits. Maybe Mourinho can drag Guardiola's lot down to our level and stop them getting out of hand, which he did eventually, temporarily, at Madrid after an even more inauspicious start to the rivalry. It'll be ugly and hard to be proud of, but needs must. Hardly buzzing about it though. |
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