Prime Robben was so frightening. Remember watching the 2014 World Cup and Robben was an absolute force of nature. Great player to watch. The best "one trick pony" you'll see.
One of the best divers around too.
KdB is a passing genius, the type of players that work with Pep
KdB struggled under Mourinho for example and was dropped for players like Willian who are obviously weaker technically but probably worked harder in defense. Pep couldnt work with Zlatan and Yaya while I believe they will be perfect for Mourinho, Pep probably will struggle with a talent like Lukaku while Conte would love him
That wasn't Prime KDB.
Prime KDB would wreck Havoc in a Mourinho team.
KDB picking killer passes on counter attacks for attackers to run onto would be wonderful. Remember how brilliant Ozil was for Mourinho. Plus KDB is a good ball carrier and has great defensive work rate too. Mourinho would love him. He just didn't want to develop players and stuck with the team he already had.
Right one of the greatest ever midfielders would struggle next to Essien and Makelele/Lampard or Cambiasso. In fact he's so unable to adapt he'd somehow manage to struggle playing the role fabregas did so well in 2015-16. Most of those teams did not reject possession in regular games btw. And besides if you have Xavi you use his qualities to increase your chances of winning.
The thing is, to utilize Xavi's qualities to great use you have to gear the entire team towards that possession approach which wouldn't be possible with just Xavi. You would need a suitable team around him for that particular style of play. That philosophy only works with a very specific profile of players like Guardiola would tell you.
Mourinho teams(or even Fergie teams) even in possession were very different to the teams Xavi played for.
If you're coaching a team with Xavi and you have them reject possession and depend on counter attacks you should be sacked and then banned from coming within 100 yards of a football pitch ever again
Only having Xavi wouldn't make you a possession side though. You need to build the entire team geared around that to apply that philosophy. Otherwise, it'll just be a half baked possession system which will be "neither-here-nor-there".
What an incoherent rancid logic is that ? Yikes. Thought you were a Stoke fan for a second after seeing that. Expected better from a fan of a cultured team like Bayern on football. Out of curiosity what team of past or present you think Xavi would struggle in ?
"Cultured Football" thing is a load of utter BS. There's no one correct or cultured way to play Football.
In modern Football, most teams tend to play in phases anyways. Sometimes the teams get into a low block just to recharge their batteries for an upcoming 10 minute spell of high pressing.
Not every team has City's stacked billion dollar squad.
