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!@#$%! · 08.22.2018, 01:18 PM

alright i'll keep an eye on it, thanks.

especially after what i saw yesterday...

so, been watching the ALL OR NOTHING man city documentary on amazon. it's from last year's campagin (so far anyway).

first episode is about building the team (and mourinho on van bruyne), second episode about the man u rivalry (and mourinho's interviews), third episode is about their undefeated streak up to the new year’s defeat against liverpool...

and yea it's been fucking great. i'm learning a lot, seeing a lot, understanding a lot.

one of the great treats has been to see the various silva highlights-- his goals, his passes, excellent.

i also understand pep a little better now i think, seeing him speak, etc. he is clearly obsessed but seems a lot less detached into his head than the impression i had of him.

of course he is still a maniac but i appreciate him a little more. i guess that's the point of all pr/puff pieces after all. but yes. this has humanized him in my eyes ha ha ha.

now the thing is i realized that he learned something in bundesliga. which is:

at the beginning of the season when they're building the team they make a big issue of having players who can play like pep wants but who are also *physical*. and they make a huge deal out of how physical the prem is. and so you see john stones, and mendy, and van bruyne...

the thing is though, bundesliga is also very physical. and the champions league is also very physical-- like when you have to face atlético madrid for example.

anyway one of the big things that bothered me with pep at bayern is that he brought in very skilled but small/smallish men. like bernat or thiago alcántara. or gotze who had a diseas but o well. and played rafinha a lot. and then relegated physical players like javi martínez to defense. ok, xabi alonso came in for schewinsteiger, but overall there was a loss of physicality in the team with him. bayern lost that edge.

doesn't seem to be the case at man city though. that team can outmuscle its opponents as well as play passing football, and that is a great thing.

anyway gonna look at rest of schedule now...

08.22.2018, 01:18 PM	#10613
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,731	alright i'll keep an eye on it, thanks. especially after what i saw yesterday... so, been watching the ALL OR NOTHING man city documentary on amazon. it's from last year's campagin (so far anyway). first episode is about building the team (and mourinho on van bruyne), second episode about the man u rivalry (and mourinho's interviews), third episode is about their undefeated streak up to the new year’s defeat against liverpool... and yea it's been fucking great. i'm learning a lot, seeing a lot, understanding a lot. one of the great treats has been to see the various silva highlights-- his goals, his passes, excellent. i also understand pep a little better now i think, seeing him speak, etc. he is clearly obsessed but seems a lot less detached into his head than the impression i had of him. of course he is still a maniac but i appreciate him a little more. i guess that's the point of all pr/puff pieces after all. but yes. this has humanized him in my eyes ha ha ha. now the thing is i realized that he learned something in bundesliga. which is: at the beginning of the season when they're building the team they make a big issue of having players who can play like pep wants but who are also physical. and they make a huge deal out of how physical the prem is. and so you see john stones, and mendy, and van bruyne... the thing is though, bundesliga is also very physical. and the champions league is also very physical-- like when you have to face atlético madrid for example. anyway one of the big things that bothered me with pep at bayern is that he brought in very skilled but small/smallish men. like bernat or thiago alcántara. or gotze who had a diseas but o well. and played rafinha a lot. and then relegated physical players like javi martínez to defense. ok, xabi alonso came in for schewinsteiger, but overall there was a loss of physicality in the team with him. bayern lost that edge. doesn't seem to be the case at man city though. that team can outmuscle its opponents as well as play passing football, and that is a great thing. anyway gonna look at rest of schedule now...
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