Today's Football - 2023/2024 Season

[sd_1992]

When he is managing the best players money can buy.

Had Everton top of the league until we decided to screw him over.

He is utterly beyond reproach as the best manager in the world right now.

 

[LocalNative]

Todays football has reminded me I’m not ready for Everton back in Europe.

The scars of the Fiorentina shoot-out are still raw. At 13 that night was the first and last time I broke down in tears for this club. Penalties are horrid.

 

[Saint Domingo]

The Don is the GOAT. Nearly always finds a way. He is a brilliant man-manager and a not-too-clever, but pragmatic tactician. Pep overthinks and always has. He HAS to be judged at CL level - not PL, given the way his club have effectively rigged the league. And in Europe his record is moderate.

By the time he finishes his career he’ll have probably won more CLs than any other manager in history. He already had three, a feat that only three other managers have managed in all of football. He’s not the only manager to have ever had good teams and good players. Pep is very good but it doesn’t mean he wins every game, stuff happens in Europe.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Why would you kick them out? Their financial advantage is entirely organic, the result of brilliant financial management - not of oil money, human rights violation, or despotism.

The problem with the Bundesliga is not Bayern's excellence. It's the utterly shambolic mismanagement of their natural rival clubs: Hamburger SV, Schalke 04, Hertha BSC, Kaiserslautern, 1860 Munich, etc. Basically, Germany is full of huge clubs who have been run like Everton.

I just feel some clubs have become too commercially big for their domestic counterparts.

Why I wanted the ESL to happen, let the giants have their super league and leave the rest to have an open and competitive competition year on year.

 

[witchdoc187]

By the time he finishes his career he’ll have probably won more CLs than any other manager in history. He already had three, a feat that only three other managers have managed in all of football. He’s not the only manager to have ever had good teams and good players. Pep is very good but it doesn’t mean he wins every game, stuff happens in Europe.

No way he's won more than klopp. I've seen it on TV

 

[Saint Domingo]

No way he's won more than klopp. I've seen it on TV

Maybe if Ancelotti can get another one before he retires he might keep the record but Pep will always be at a top club and has three already, he could easily end up with 4 or 5. It’s already more than Ferguson Mourinho Klopp Wenger etc. managed.

 

[Neiler]

How dare anyone except Liverpool or United win things. Utter travesty.

Great to see a team pull themselves up by their bootstraps all right, if only we could understand the mystery of what could have made the difference.

 

[msb]

When he is managing the best players money can buy.

Pep ain’t playing with no-marks!

 

[Walken]

The Bundesliga is having a great season - new champions (badly needed), Dortmund and Bayern in the CL semis, and Leverkusen looking a decent bet to win the Europa. It hasn't sold its soul for money and still places fans at the heart of the game. That's something worth celebrating.

I think Leverkusen have actually shirked the members ownership model, which has caused some grumblings, still delighted to see a monopoly broken the 'product' of the prem get knocked down a peg

 

[Walken]

The Don is the GOAT. Nearly always finds a way. He is a brilliant man-manager and a not-too-clever, but pragmatic tactician. Pep overthinks and always has. He HAS to be judged at CL level - not PL, given the way his club have effectively rigged the league. And in Europe his record is moderate.

I'd go further than that, given the resources he has managed with his CL record is poor

 

[Walken]

Bellingham even elegant in the post match interview. Absolutely sickening how eloquent he is (for a footballer)

The legs on the lad, was sprinting around in the 120th min

 

[carolinablue232]

Well, that Dortmund win - hopefully combined with Bayern dumping Arteta on his arse tomorrow - will go a long way to ensuring fifth place does not get another Premier League side an extra Champions League place.

Throw in Leverkusen finishing off the Hammers and it'll be a dark week for Richard Masters and his masters.

Seems as though the world of footy does not start and end with just the premier league after all.

 

[carolinablue232]

Todays football has reminded me I’m not ready for Everton back in Europe.

The scars of the Fiorentina shoot-out are still raw. At 13 that night was the first and last time I broke down in tears for this club. Penalties are horrid.

You have absolutely nothing to worry about.

 

[Codlet]

Had Everton top of the league until we decided to screw him over.

He is utterly beyond reproach as the best manager in the world right now.

How did we screw him over ?

 

[PhilM]

How did we screw him over ?

Perhaps screw him over is an example of hyperbole by the OP, but it’s well accepted he was sold a project that wasn’t sustainable.

You only need to see how much money Benitez had to spend when he took over to see recognise that Carlo wasn’t going to be funded.