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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
a fantastically quick and skilled boxer with a glass jaw.
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For a glass jaw, his win ratio throughout his career is probably on a par with anyone. Mourinho works with similar sized budgets and is known for building hyper-resilient teams but I'd say he's lost about the same amount of games over his career. I do agree that there seems to be something a bit more fragile about Pep's teams, but that may just be because we
expect a team playing like that to be fragile. Certainly his record of success suggests that it isn't a big problem.
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how was valdés back in the day? i know you were a fan of that team. i read somewhere that pep wanted him back and chose bravo in the end. if you look at news, pep was already saying back in april that neuer would never leave bayern. so i'm sure he tried to play footsie under the table with him somehow... as a bayern fan, i'm glad that was quickly shut down.
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Valdes seemed solid but he never struck me as being particularly outstanding. Ter Stegen was actually Pep's 1st choice to replace Hart but that fell through so he went with Bravo instead. Although obviously, he'd have taken Neuer if he could.
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silva playing great football? i almost couldn't believe the accounts.
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This is a surprise to you?!?! He's a fantastic player. Admittedly he wasn't great last season, but that seemed to be true of the squad generally. The only real issue with him is that he does pick up his share of niggling injuries. Besides that, though, the guy's a class act.