>inherit aging shit squad
>sporting board is beyond useless and only buy shitters like Deulofeu and an unknown quantity from China with Paulinho as well as a work in progress in Dembele
>be surrounded in a toxic political climate where the region you're working in wants independence
>nonetheless you do your job and get on with business
>don't lose a single game since you started the league season in all competitions
>Concede a ridiculously low 7 goals in half a season despite your team having little to no apparent world class defenders - Pique is old, Mascherano is past it and Vermaelen is always injured and barely played 10 games total. To put this in perspective, Atletico Madrid have so far conceded the second lowest amount of goals in La liga and they fucking bus-park almost every away game.
>Not only that but you managed to top your CL group easily despite not having your star summer signing and a bunch of important players injured or out of form like Ratking and destroyed Juventus 3-0 and drew with them away.
>And if that weren't enough, he easily destroys Real Madrid in their home stadium with Paulinho and Vermaelen starting despite Real looking like they were going to dominate the league in preseason when Barca lost 5-1 aggregate to them.
Why isn't this man being lauded or congratulated? All I ever hear is MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI when people talk about this current Barcelona "overperforming" but really, the manager should be getting most of the credit. Sure, the actual football is far from the best but his tactics have been nothing but solidly wise and clever especially considering the players he has right now. And if he's doing this well with what he has, imagine how much better Barcelona will perform when players like Coutinho arrive to enhance the squad.
Inherit aging shit squad
this is way too long
>this is way too long for a brainlet like me
ftfy
he always punched above his weight at bilbao, specially if you consider their limitations (for those who don't know, athletic bilbao can only use basque country players)
>thinking anyone will read your shit american opinion on soccer
Go back to r/soccer
australian intellectual here. this is too long.
Didnt know this, why? Club policy?
>australian intellectual
Not a thing
Yes. Hard regionalism.
Also his football is much more attractive than Guardiola's Barça.
>Yes. Hard regionalism.
how is that a bad thing, they never relegated.
look at other "bigger" teams buying brazilian&african 6th world shitters left and right and are now nowhere near la liga.
That Trivago girl a cute, what accent does she have?
>athletic bilbao can only use basque country players
the rules have been expanded to 'only use players formed in the basque region', doesn't matter where they were born anymore as long as they are technically 'basque youth players'
Yes, we all rate him, but lets just wait til he gets the silverware.
Because coaching at Real, Barca or Bayern means you don't really have to do anything other than clap and say "good job" or "let's go" every once in a while.
barca cunts lucked out getting this guy. he's doing amazing, specially considering they got 5-1'd in the supercup. barca's season looked grim and he turned it around
>Lucked out
He was recommended by Cruyff and has the same club philosophy as an ex-player, you braindead sewershitskin. If anything, he was already offered the job before Tata Martino and Luis Enrique later but he rejected it back then
>Real looking like they were going to dominate the league in preseason when Barca lost 5-1 aggregate to them.
Yea who ever wins that supercopa usually goes on to do bad at the league. Some sort of curse. At least for Real.
Thats just wrong
>Pique is old
Lol come on man
>Also his football is much more attractive than Guardiola's Barça
Mata-te.
shocking that lots of people think this
Bilbao isn't allowed to sign players who aren't from their local region
>If anything, he was already offered the job before Tata Martino and Luis Enrique later but he rejected it back then
Why?
So true. Keep the egos in check and the players will do everything.
Unless you have teenagers in the squad you never have to explain a thing, they heard it all before.
>So true
Except it isn't. Ancelotti got fired from Bayern this season, coaching those teams is perhaps the most stressful job in the world cause the board usually expects you to deliver the champions league, but memester losers on Sup Forums think it's easy so it really must be.
real madrid imploding after the supercup is making him look better than he actually is
He got replaced by a pensioner.
Ancelotti was a fool who lost the dressing room.
Stress is only a problem if you let it get to you, which it won't since you're a lucky fuck who made it to the top.
Imagine coaching at Bayern and somehow encountering any problem.
"Uh... Rummenigge, this Dortmund team is really plucky, they might draw with us one day."
"Already on it."
*next season*
"We'd like to announce the transfers of Mario Gotze, Robert Lewandowski, and Mats Hummels!"
If it's so easy why did Carlo and Pep before him get fired? Why do they need to pay these blokes millions of pounds if it's a job that even a Sup Forums janitor could do?
Pep didn't get fired, he just ran out his contract and decided to not renew even though Bayern wanted him to continue.
> All I ever hear is MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI
Cause this Barca has weak players in the back, no creativity when Iniesta isn't playing, and Suarez/Paulinho are finally starting to wake up, but Barca is leading cause Messi turns god mode on every week.
He didn't say it's a bad thing. But they are the only ones in the world's top leagues to do such thing and that's a huge limitation considering all clubs have the whole world as a pool for players while they're stuck in a region with less than 3.6m people.
Dunno, maybe he was comfy at Athletic and didn't want the pressure back then. Some other Barça fans consider him passing on prime Messi a fucking retarded move. Who knows how things would had worked out
The spanish are temperamental and passionate, not logical like us.
Because Luis Enrique did the same and won the treble in his first season. Then what happened? Two seasons later everybody hated him
i'd say your country is shit but i dont even know if it's a country anymore, it's fucking tiny
passionate about siesta and temperamental about doing the minimum amount of work
They're a non-country. The state of Macedonia is a state of Bulgarian/Turk/Slav larpers pretending to be Macedonians.
Today I will remind Mohammed
wasn't meant as a dig at your country
just from personal experience spaniards are very chill
Oh, cool. Thanks. Cheers, m13
Ever heard of German efficiency?
EX rank luck or voodoo magic or both.
They're playing like shit and still won.
Don't reply to me ever again until Valverde wins 8 titles out of 10 possible
More like german autism
Messimessimessi
>They're playing like shit
Wrong
>germany and spain
>adding microjob hours and summer jobs bullshit to the count
Amazing
Summer jobs aren't jobs? So this guy that got into the policeforce while working on a beach since 6:00 AM until 22:00 was full time studying, then? My sister waking up at 7:00 AM to wake up some old fart in a residence the 1th of this month or any festive isn't a job either because it's a microjob?
Amazing
To be fair though he never was really popular among fans because despite winning the treble everybody knows it was lucky as hell and his football utter shit, and he basically was literally standing on the side line and was hoping MSN do their magic. Valverde is actually a good coach and he proofed it at Bilbao too.
>Luis Enrique did the same and won the treble in his first season
that was thanks to suarez, not enrique
Pep is such a quitter faggot