rastus said:
In fairness they are not 60 years old and still waiting
You know, Jupp Heynckes did not win a trophy (only the Intertoto Cup like Pellegrini) between 1998 and 2012, yet is closing in on a treble with a Bayern Munich side he has turned into Europe's best football team.
There are circumstances behind Pellegrini's lack of trophies in Europe since he arrived in 2004. All but one of his years in Europe have been at modest clubs where he has massively overachieved. His transformation of Villarreal (town population: 51,000) from nothing club into Champions League semi finalists and the last team to ever break the Barcelona/Real Madrid top two monopoly is one of the greatest in modern history.
This guy is being trailed by many of Europe's top clubs, why do you think the likes of Barcelona, PSG, Roma, Chelsea, and City - all ambitious clubs - are not concerned about his lack of trophies since they have or are considering him? Think about that for a minute, there is much more to football than what appears on the surface or else Begiristain would simply have appointed Mourinho at Barcelona instead of reserve team coach Guardiola. These people in charge of the clubs listed above aren't imbeciles, they are football men who know far more about any of us about managers and yet all of them have been in contact with his agent at some point in the last year.
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