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It will end up a draw and that's perfect for us.

Actually, even the 2010 side wasnt as good as this one, especially in November.The 05 side wasnt like that either, less enjoyable to watch, more clinical.

Strange times this month, an away win to Liverpool, then this ...

Footballistic orgasm.

Fabregas doesnt agree.And since when its only Mourinho who sign players ?

The Mourinho factor will benefit us, he'll sign for us if José wants him.

Cech - Ivanovic - Desailly - Terry - Cole - Makelele - Wise - Lampard - Zola - Drogba - Osgood Mourinho as a manager, Di Matteo as his assistant.

I believe Reus hair are outstanding quality, therefore, we should sign him.

Mourinho needs a World Cup to be considered as the best ever, he'll probably manage Portugal one day, I just hope the crop of players will worth the management.

With Porto he won a Champions League, but failed to win us the trophy in three occasions, and with Inter, I counted six years for Mourinho and six years for Guardiola because Guardiola managed six years. You can be honest, you are still not right.

I got your point, that's why I strictly wanted to explain how he made Barcelona favourites against big opposition as an exceptionnal achievement, and didnt wanted to talk about it on a general note. My first opinion was that Pep is having a better career than Mourinho, it seems its is not the subject anymore, we are more going in a Pep vs Mou direction, that will ultimately ends up with two sides, pro-José and pro-Guardiola, but that wasnt my intentions in first place.

Just picked, simple, normalization isnt my cup of tea, and I dont accept easily such things, it isnt easy to just pick.Mourinho had a great Madrid side too, but didnt win trophies, football defies logic.

" Guardiola' s team in all games with the exception of perhaps the European giants away are always the strong favourites" I dont agree, he made Barcelona looks the favourite because of the dominace they produced with his football, its a gained-status, not a given one, and even before him, Barcelona is Barcelona, they'll always be the favourite against smaller teams, its against the biggest of teams that we have noticed how much Barca looked invincible under Pep, and that's what should reflect the quality of the group and the manager.I definetly agree on the point of Mourinho is a galvanisator and an amazing coach for groups of players that never won titles, and no one will repeat what he did at Porto, but again, why should we blast Pep if he only had offers from Barcelona A as they watched his capacities with Barca B ? If he had the chance to go to another team, maybe he'd have done great elsewhere, we cannot know. " Imagine if Di Matteo had set up like for like in the Nou Camp in 2012, Chelsea would have lost badly " Why should I even imagine this ? We have to be rational in our way of thinking and by saying that it implies that Pep is a dogmatic managers when approching games, if he was our manager in 2012 with that team he'd have played in a defensive way anyway ! Good managers make good sides, there is no such thing of a side making a manager, and Pep made Barcelona, not the contrary.He got rid of players at the right time where we didnt.Di Matteo, with a little bit of luck, made of a small Chelsea team a big Chelsea team, and that's an amazing achievement.

As Wenger would say, could Bayern win the game ? I dont know, I dont comment on speculation.On a serious note, if both are in great shape, it will be way more closer, and Bayern will notch the victory if they capitalize; because at the Bernabeau last year they didnt.

I believe Pep can control what could happen on the pitch and therefore prepare a plan B in case of injuries or drop in form, but losing Vilanova is a life's tragedy, and emotionally, its impossible to recover in a week or a month, so I think the most important factor in that match wasnt that the players werent good, its the manager who wasnt good, as he declared later.BM fans understood that, as we are all human.

Xavi and Iniesta at their prime ( 2008-2014) were on another level compared to Oscar-Fabregas, Hazard is no Messi and Guardiola isnt Mourinho, he wont change the way our team plays in a night, he'd probably stick to some basis because of the profile of players we have, and add a bit of overall possession against big teams, but again, this is all speculations, so pointless.

I'm not the kind of person to talk about the impossible, and since changing the past and blending teams isnt part of this reality its pointless to go in that direction, I also can tell you that I dont belive Mourinho could have had the sucess Guardiola had with Barcelona, especially in his first year at the club, but it wont add much to the discussion as we cant know.However, I do agree that the knowlege of Mourinho about the Portuguese league made him an exceptionnal manager in Portugal, way before becoming the superstar at Chelsea, and Guardiola would probably find it difficult to manage a Portuguese team like Leiria or Porto, since his football knowledge is more developped when it comes to spanish teams and spanish football, but its a logical guess, nothing more.In this moment the amount of titles Pep has is near perfection, having won 2 out of 5 Champions League campaigns, 4 out of 5 championships, won 3 out of 5 cups, and a hell lot of supercups, Mourinho, excluding his time at Benfica and Leiria, and only counting from Porto, won very much the same amount of titles after 6 years of coaching, however, with a CL less, and with a style of football less entretaining then the one Guardiola proposed, but I guess this last sentence is relative to the viewer, so thats personal opinion of course. As for the controversial part, I dont find any kind of controversy when speaking about legendary managers and comparing titles and paths, even if its disscussed in a forum where Mourinho is the main man and Guardiola systematically reduced to a poessession-maniac overated manager, even if none of us have been coached by him. You and Ibrahimovic think the same way about Pep, not a cunt, a coward is more suitable for the spaniard, meh ! Again same argument, based solely on the fact that Guardiola didnt manage small teams and he is a one way style of football so overrated.Mourinho is a master tactician, and so is Guardiola, dont ever think all those victories in the clasicos were due to luck, and we often forget his amazing work with Barcelona B, that resulted in some talents for the A team, buts thats the hidden part.His first year in Germany is a sucess, and the records he is creating with bayern domestically are remarkable.The black mark will obviously be the defeat against Madrid, that came because of a lack of tactical preparation for Guardiola ( A week after losing Tito Vilanova, an important factor ignored by the majority because its please to say that Pep was "humiliated" )

Guardiola is having a better career than Mourinho, and its difficult to be better than Mourinho.

We'll need to buy Spain first, call Roman.

Who remembers ? Glad we'll finally see him and this team lift the trophy again.

Early conclusions, he will bounce back, we cant know all what's happening in André's mind these days but José does, and if he is patient with him its for a reason, I guess.

Winning at Anfield and the November-crisis will definetly be forgotten, excited as hell !

You cant expect from him to play two times a week and produce the same performances everytime, he still had an assist tonight tough, wrongly disallowed goal.Where was Schurrle, Willian in the first half to help him in midfield ? Even Matic wasnt playing at his level, until the Maribor goal, all the team was bad, I think Cesc was the only one who still produced key passes in the opposition half, with Eden.

How can you find him "poor" tonight ? I found him rather great, doing his job at a position very difficult to play in, against an opposition that made it hard for us, especially mentally, we were sloppy in everything until their goal.

Arjen Robben, he'd surely added a lot in the 08/09 season and the 10/11 season, we needed his explosivity.