Javi
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Re: your first point I really don't know well enough to answer but I sure know that using that - and that would require being very well informed - as a premise to conclude that allegations about doping must be true is a fallacy. The Barça team from Pep was routinely accused of doping and there hasn't come anything by it for example.But like I said - who has been accused of doping repeatedly and there has been no evidence found, even years after the fact?
I can only think of the likes of FloJo who died.
I think if primarily one manager has a history of claims being made about them, and no other manager on his level of talent or recognition has none such accusations that is surely a point worth considering.
Especially since the claims come from a wide variety of sources over a large period of time, it seems implausible for there to be an anti-pep directive here.
You’re thinking that doping only refers to an instant effect.
Re: your second point I think that you're making a mistake in your logic if you don't actually address the content of the claims but only their existence and their origin. What we have is Pep testing positive while being a player and his teams - tbf repeatedly - failing to report their 'whereabouts' to the respective football association, right? So not actually strong claims at all. No positive tests, no claimed substances used. It is clearly shady though.
I don't think doping only refers to an instant effect by the way, and that doesn't refute my point as it doesn't matter what type of effect doping has but any effect at all.