This lad AP88 is winning my little competition over there at the moment.
Indeed he was Ferguson’s pick, but he dodged the job because he knew the has-beens and Cleverleys, Welbecks etc that Sir Alex had been miraculously winning with would have exposed him as an incredibly one-dimensional coach, instead opting to sabotage then-European Champions Bayern before accepting the job at Manchester’s equivalent to a lottery winning Celta Vigo, on the promise of what will soon become a £1B squad, despite once famously saying money clubs that don’t develop their own talent make him sad.
Considering Ranieri turned Mahrez into POTY, I imagine he’d do fairly well with a starting 11 that cost on average circa £50m per head, and seeing as Dyche is turning lower league players into England internationals, I’d fancy him to do a reasonable job too.
It’s not Pep’s tactics that set this City team apart, nor the patterns of play - it’s the abnormal insensity that facilitates such goals as the second one yesterday; the likes of De Bruyne had never shown such sustained mobility prior to this season, then suddenly can overrun every other team in England.
Even peak Ronaldo, built like an Olympic sprinter, looked more strained on the counter than these previously/dubious athletes under convicted drugs cheat Pep. David Silva had never beaten an offside trap in his career, yet suddenly in his 30s looked like Giggs circa 1994 to set up the third.
