Another Guardiola Rumour - The Sun.

[bernabias home shirt]

Dortmund have been winning against all odds, it was never going to continue. The team that has way more money than anyone else will win over time and that is BM.

Funny he has been in NY polishing his English, his German must be amazing....oh wait he doesn't speak German !

I think Chelsea were his only option for next season in the PL and he didn't fancy it. BM are a cosy fit, apart from the language.

Mate if you think a team that battered us twice and were a match for Real Madrid twice can't challenge Bayern in the league, having won it twice already in the last two years, then it seems there's little point continuing this conversation.

Dortmund were the best team i've seen in a long long time.

They were pretty good
I'm amazed they have only won 8 games in the bundesliga this season.thats less than half they have played.

 

[Anonymous]

They were pretty good
I'm amazed they have only won 8 games in the bundesliga this season.thats less than half they have played.

They've lost 3 games ... big achilles for them has been stupid draws. They've been unlucky in at least two or three games where they should really have won comfortably. However I suspect their progress through the group of death as winners will ease the pain. I really think they can win the CL ...

 

[halfcenturyup]

They can, but they won't.

They were pretty good
I'm amazed they have only won 8 games in the bundesliga this season.thats less than half they have played.

They've lost 3 games ... big achilles for them has been stupid draws. They've been unlucky in at least two or three games where they should really have won comfortably. However I suspect their progress through the group of death as winners will ease the pain. I really think they can win the CL ...

 

[Braggster]

Dortmund were the best team i've seen in a long long time.

Agree with that all day long mate ... I've been a big fan of theirs since the start of last season when I started watching their games pretty regularly. Remind me of the best Wenger/Arsenal teams. Just liquid football.

Mm..well, I'd say the Arsenal comparison is an interesting one in light of the conversation about whether Dortmund can keep up their level of challenge versus a bigger, better resourced competitor.

Doesn't Arsenal's experience rather suggest that actually that is rather difficult - and that they probably won't?

 

[Anonymous]

Dortmund were the best team i've seen in a long long time.

Agree with that all day long mate ... I've been a big fan of theirs since the start of last season when I started watching their games pretty regularly. Remind me of the best Wenger/Arsenal teams. Just liquid football.

Mm..well, I'd say the Arsenal comparison is an interesting one in light of the conversation about whether Dortmund can keep up their level of challenge versus a bigger, better resourced competitor.

Doesn't Arsenal's experience rather suggest that actually that is rather difficult - and that they probably won't?

All depends on what they do next. They either build on Goetze/Reus/Hummels/Subotic + Klopp, or they take the route of selling players to raise the finances to build.

Arsenal's experience was based on the move to the Emirates the costs that entailed.

 

[Balti]

Agree with that all day long mate ... I've been a big fan of theirs since the start of last season when I started watching their games pretty regularly. Remind me of the best Wenger/Arsenal teams. Just liquid football.

Mm..well, I'd say the Arsenal comparison is an interesting one in light of the conversation about whether Dortmund can keep up their level of challenge versus a bigger, better resourced competitor.

Doesn't Arsenal's experience rather suggest that actually that is rather difficult - and that they probably won't?

All depends on what they do next. They either build on Goetze/Reus/Hummels/Subotic + Klopp, or they take the route of selling players to raise the finances to build.

Arsenal's experience was based on the move to the Emirates the costs that entailed.

they could have spent that borrowed stadium money on players instead

borrowing money you don't have is good for football apparently

or the richest man in russia is their biggest shareholder......he might have actually invested some dosh god forbid

 

[MCFCinUSA]

To me Pep has not been proven when you have Iniesta, Xavi, Pique, Messi your team kinda selects itself. Mancini to me is the real deal taking risks (Balo v QPR) etc and winning things that way even under pressure working unpaid at Florentina. What other manager would stick by a club when the fans are sending him death threats? Then at Lazio he won things even though the club was dead broke lets see Pep do that then I will rate him.

Pep did amazing things at Barca, but he is not going to deliver what people expect at Bayern; to all intents & purposes he is knackered from here on in.

It has nothing to do with the players or clubs, it's within himself... watch & see.

At least those of us who want Mourinho and those of you that don't now have something in common. None of us wanted Guardiola ;).

a wise and informed opinion - not that I'm of the mindset that Manciti needs to be gone; he's a winner with a backbone and a determination of steel.

Guardiola, who may be feted and fawned over is not about to do a Mourinho or a Manciti, and Pep's management career is virtually all over.

Here's hoping our club knows a good thing when it has it.

 

[MSP]

Dortmund were the best team i've seen in a long long time.

Agree with that all day long mate ... I've been a big fan of theirs since the start of last season when I started watching their games pretty regularly. Remind me of the best Wenger/Arsenal teams. Just liquid football.

Mm..well, I'd say the Arsenal comparison is an interesting one in light of the conversation about whether Dortmund can keep up their level of challenge versus a bigger, better resourced competitor.

Doesn't Arsenal's experience rather suggest that actually that is rather difficult - and that they probably won't?

Of course they won't. They are not team who are able to keep their players and you don't build such a team each month.

They are flavor of the month, something like Napoli, sooner or later they'll be on the level of Schalke or Leverkusen - one of teams that are rotating in challenging Bayern who are only consistent force in Germany.

 

[Marvin]

Sunderland looked pretty good at our place last season.

One game - when your raise your game can produce unusual performances

Athletico Bilbao and Athletico Madrid looked world beaters in the latter stages of the Europa League

I think the German clubs can perform well in Europe as they can raise their game, whereas the English clubs are worn down by the week by week attrition of the Premiership