I do hope you're joking. So if we'd have held on for a 0-0 you think that would've made it a straight two horse race between Pep and Conte? This is manager of the month. Not who got the most points in a month.
Is it coincidence that the managers are 1x Man U, 1x Man City, 1x Chelsea and 1x City and the players are exactly the same clubs? please log in to view this image
How many world class players do you think Man Utd have got? I can think of 3. And as an aside, why do people mention Barcelona in this context? I dont remember them winning the world's ultimate club prize last season, or indeed even reaching the semis.
They won La Liga which contained both European winners and a Champions League finalist. Knock out competitions aren't really all that when it comes to saying who the best team in the world is. Any side can lose over two legs.
You're basically saying Jose deserves manager of the month solely because they scraped a 1-0 win against us right? Otherwise United wouldn't be on 9pts which is the point you're trying to make right? United's squad with several world class players and an additional £150+m spent on it against basically the only players we had left. You are either joking or clueless.
Mourinho deserves it for being the best side in the opening 3 games considering they've played 2 away games. The squad has absolutely no bearing on the outcome of this competition. Mourinho won 3 games (including two away) therefore outperforming his peers. It's not rocket science.
Putting it to the public was never going to get a different result, if they win it, that's that, there's no point claiming Phelan & Davies deserved it more, because you have the same bias as all the Utd, City & Chelski fans. It's a pointless debate that Hull City will never win!
Nope. Then it would have gone to Chelsea as all the Man U fans would vote against Man City winning it.
So why do we have knockout competitions to decide the best teams at both club and international level? If we're saying they're 'not all that' we might as well just look at which teams we think look nicest on paper and name them the winners each year.
No chance. Don't let bitteress get in the way of it. Last season, only Pellegrini and Wenger won from the 'big' teams' Claudio Ranieri x 3 Mauricio Pochettino x 2 Ronald Koeman, Manuel Pellegrini, Arsene Wenger and Quique Sanchez Flores x1 It always goes to the most deserving.
They don't decide who is the best per se. It's just a competition to award a trophy to the side who wins it. A league of 38 games always generates a deserving winner. There have been plenty of occasions where a result is marred by a poor refereeing display or something. Over a season these are ironed out, that's not the case over 2 legs (necessarily).
