Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
No I just happen to disagree that PSG have anywhere near the strongest team in Europe, the two teams I’ve mentioned Man City and Bayern Munich are far stronger. A team is also far more about balance and they have a better balance team when Unai coached them…now they’ve sacrificed that to have Neymar and Messi up front.

Yes City changed it up when they played us, but again that’s far more about their ability to rotate given the depth in their squad.

That’s not the reason they beat us. The reason they beat us is that for all our strengths we don’t deal well with intense pressing, even Partey who is lauded for his ability to play through the press can’t deal with it from players of the quality of City. Until we sufficiently improve our central midfield to combat this, all the tactical cleverness you think makes every bit of difference in games…won’t make a sod of difference.

I don’t disagree that being flexible is preferable to being inflexible, but where we differ is on the margin of difference it makes when you have the strongest squad in Europe (by a mile, it’s not even close).

I think you seem to be getting the impression that im defending Arteta, im not…I can’t stand the guy….no personality, totally unlikable…all the warmth of a corpse and yes galaxy brained and too sure of his own genius and plays favourites too often.

I think he’s been incredibly lucky to have players like Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli all come good at the same time. Whilst we can say Odegaard is his signing…I don’t really credit him with their development. I think they came good inspite of him because they are naturally talented players.


Having a good coach if you’re a mega wealthy team gives you the advantage because unlike with Chelsea of late you won’t spend hundreds of millions on players not up to snuff, Guardiola obviously knows the difference between a good player and a shit one….and he’s built a team with balance and quality. But you simply cannot produce that quality if the tools at your disposal are limited.
Fair enough. Not much I can debate with here as its clear we see things differently, which means we could probably be seeing the same thing but insisting its a certain way (eg. is the glass half full or half empty).

A bit like what I posted earlier on how to view the season, a success or failure. I think whatever helps you to healthily deal with whatever challenge you have (Citeh's dominance in this case) is probably the best way to go.

Lets see what we do against Newcastle, seeing as the Citeh have already wrapped it up against Leeds in the 1st half as usual.