Recent content by Zen86

He’s not an ex-United player

He’s very good at maximising his unquestionable squad superiority over the rest of the league. You would think he’s turning water into wine with the superlatives people give him.

There's a correlation between the size of the Caf and how crap we are on the pitch. Ban everyone registered after 2010 I say.

You have issues

I definitely miss the simplicity of the old platform scroller games, but also the old RTS games like Populous The Beginning, Age of Empires 2, Battlefield Earth, Red Alert etc. And later on Black&White

It’s quite eye watering what City have spent since 2008, not just on transfer fees. And half of it isn’t even on the books. So yes, money is the key to their success. Not Pep.

He didn’t really do anything of note at Bayern, achieved arguably the bare minimum with a team that had just swept to a treble. City have ploughed so much resource into their squad that there’s been talk of trebles and quadruples for years, before Pep even arrived.

They’d have still dominated possession and suffocated teams, but it was safety-first football that would’ve resulted in a lot of stalemates or being picked off on the counter without Messi’s ability to create something out of nothing with a moment of brilliance. Talk of Pep revolutionising...

For all the creaming of Pep’s Barcelona, they wouldn’t have amounted to very much without Messi, inarguably one of the all time greats. Personally I think they would have struggled to score goals without him and probably not have had a great deal of success, despite being strong across the rest...

That Spain side was god awful to watch, tiki taka in its purest, most painful to watch form. Especially from about 2010 onwards. The only reason Barcelona were slightly easier on the eye was Messi, who could make up for the shortfalls of tiki taka with his ability to open up the opposition.

Their continuation is really the crux of it. Some people like to pretend that Pep is a Sir Alex, Busby, Shankly sort who has built the club. But he’s just a face for a state backed business with political objectives. If Abu Dhabi still care after he’s gone, they’ll stay at the top.

Depends how invested Abu Dhabi are after Pep leaves. He was always the end game for them as per the “copy Barca” mandate. Abu Dhabi might lose some of the cold, ruthless business pragmatism they’ve shown since they took over once the project effectively reaches it’s end.

Most of their old guard fans are watching County or give less of a shit since City Group bleached any identity they had. The ones left are a spectacular example of how quickly fans can become a bunch of whiney, spoiled brats when enough money and shiney things is thrown in front of them.

It’s not a formality to win it, but it’s certainly easier to win these days than it used to be as the gap between the top teams and the rest is so much bigger. Add to that the number of top teams now is a lot smaller than it used to be. 15 or 20 years ago, there were very few teams in the...

You couldn’t ever get top that season with all the twists, turns, moments of drama. I don’t think any team will ever come close to the rollercoaster events. The absolute pinnacle of English football.