Because after 2010 and football Guardiolization, using long balls became a crime. You need to pass three thousand times and build up from behind.

Long balls are not irrelevant, they just don’t work because people stopped developing tactics around it. It actually works quite well against the tiki taka style, if you have the fast players to make it happen.

Well, the older you get, the less patience for shit you have.

¿Qué mirás bobo?

Expectations: ItS cOmInG hOmE.

Reality: France wins

1. 2022
2. 2006
3. 2002
4. 2014
5. 2018
6. 2010

I rate the 2010 final the worst because it marked the apex of the Guardiolization process in modern football. It should never had happened.

Because they don’t have the same talent as Messi (I bet very few will ever have), so they inspire themselves in the cyborg.

It’s the maximum they hope to achieve.

Lautaro would need 4x chances that Kane has to get these numbers.

Never saw a player to miss that many opportunities. It pissed me off greatly both in the World Cup and throughout the Champions League.

That was going very well until the maybe part.

Eric Holland from City of Manchester probably could even improve those numbers.

I have two causes, one that it’s the perceived cause, and other that it’s the actual cause:

Perceived: The natural decline of a golden generation that started on 2006, so almost 20 years ago, where the replacements are not up to the same standards.

You had Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Kroos, Klose, plus Neuer, Hummels, Boateng and Muller in their prime. Moreover, you had a mid generation that contributed to their WC win but disappeared after (Gotze and Schurlle).

Now you have players like Werner, Rudiger, that are not bad, but not even close to those mentioned, and shits like Havertz, that it isn’t even a football player.

Actual: Pep Guardiola, and the Guardiolization of Bayern, which tends to produce or absorb most of Germany’s young talent, which reflected in Germany style of play, and in the players of the new generation.

No, was one of the worst transfers Juventus ever made.

Spending 100m on a 35 year old (thus building your team around an almost ex-player) that bars your young talent (making them even leave, like Dybala), that prevents investments on key positions for the team (summed, their defenders age was 71), and that doesn’t fit your play style, just to please corporate cannot be a good transfer.

Beyond that the argument “he did well” doesn’t sit with me. He was brought to win the Champions League, not the Serie A. He wasn’t able to do it the former and had a hard time to do the latter, even with Juve’s complete dominance on the years before.

“Oh but they didn’t had a middlefield” of course they didn’t, they spent 100m on an elder, instead going for players they actually need.

A mistake in all senses, and pissed me off so much.

You listed them. Also, Grêmio is the biggest.

How I want to explain why Guardiola didn’t won the Champions Leagues it should have won with the Oil Money team, even when he should have done so because Oil Money.

Does Cannons have oil money?

Short answer: Money.

Slightly longer answer: Manchester City just won its first important trophy at European level. They are minuscule in comparison to other traditional teams. Therefore players are still motivated to win to turn it an actual big club.

Would be ironic if Spurs win it without Kane and Kane wins nothing at Bayern.

But yeah, City will win it. They have an advantage the others don’t have: Oil Money.

Lack of professionalism.

Grêmio was/arguably is still run by a bunch of amateurs that don’t have a clue about football. In the end the team wins things by pure luck, as sometimes squads simply click, and not because a good work is done.

Before 2008, Pirlo. He won a World Cup.

After 2008, also Pirlo.

Milan is slightly bigger since it has more Champions League wins than Liverpool, thus being more traditional and having more continental presence. You can say that Liverpool had more recent success, but recent success does not make a club big (Looking at you, Blue Manchester).

The fact that Serie A is not as big as the Premiership (this now, because the Serie A was huge in the 90’s) should not be something to consider, it’s not Milan’s choice to be on that league or not.