CL QF: Porto - FC Bayern

Hapless_Hans wrote:

VivaStPauli wrote:In my defense, I'm telling everyone Pep is bad for Bayern even while he's winning.

true.

But not as actively lol.

Well I reckon it's easier to ignore me then.

Because it stings to read the truth, doesn't it? The truth that your messiah is ruining your club. You'd have been better off with the Iron Tulip. Probably even Trap.

I'm pushing it now. I freely admit Klinsmann was worse than Pep though. I don't even think Pep is that bad at what he's doing, I just think what he's doing is not worth being done. I think the style he's trying to instill is dated, and his adherence to it causes inflexibility that will sink Bayern back to where they were when they hired LvG: respectable, usually winning the BL, but not the club that is feared in Europe.

You just got too many fragile midgets. And I don't mean for them to be replaced by clumsy pure destroyers; but with Schweinsteiger being injured all the time, Martinez still not being back... Well, Thiago isn't filling those shoes.
I just think losing players like Mandzukic, Gustavo, and Kroos cost Bayern a kind of flexibility they utterly miss now. They showed a glimpse of flexibility and tactical adaptation in the league match against Dortmund, but then right again when it really counted they showed the fragility I always see in Peps system, and they got their asses handed to them.

Pep might even be a great coach somewhere. I just don't think he fits Bayerns identity. That final 2 or 3% possession he's craving over Jupp is doing them in, it's cost them so much stability, flexibility, and balance, it's ridiculous.

So you're saying we should probably be discussing if Pep should've gone for a Single Payer model, and if his message of international reconciliation is undercut by his drone program and rampant NSA spying, instead of me telling you how he's the Antichrist trying to install Death Panels?

Because I can dig that, and repeat that while Pep is not a horrible coach, he lacks width and perspective, and his strict adherence to his narrow philosophy is limiting a club that possesses a squad that could basically play each and every style known to football experts, yet is forced to only perform the one trick: possession?

And now Müller-Wohlfarth quit - thanks, Obama!

I just want to point out that I also bashed Bayern for hiring him, and for selling Kroos, as well as for selling Mandzukic, and Gomez, and Gustavo.

I'm not really about how shit Pep is, though that point has a place in most debates as well, but that he doesn't suit Bayern, and the direction he's taking Bayern in hasn't made them better.

There comes the first goal. Porto you pos score 1

This is what I meant btw, I already agree with how Bayern play, so Pep did something I like: Müller and Götze cutting inside a lot, width mostly being provided by the fullbacks, this works a lot better than having Müller and Götze try their luck on the touchlines, they suck on the flanks.

Bayern looking very sharp like this.

PS WTF goal number 2, you go Boateng, you magnificent bastard!

And there it is fcking bottlers