Manchester City

FT

3 : 1

vs

HT 1 : 0

Manchester United

yeah.. you see it from Barca ;)

Sorry Micheal_Jordan, before loosing 3-2 against Barca, Rayo Vallecano was producing such football. That is Celta Vigo style to play and many others

You're right waynelee.
He just proves that EPL can change the system and a little bit like in Spain :) :)

Unless Klopp can stop him. I don't see Chelsea hitting them, even though Chelsea look better this season. Spurs just never follow through with their form too. Arsenal seem to be way more solid too like Chelsea but just need time to get to full throttle. United, my team... don't even haha. But Liverpool have what it takes.

https://youtu.be/vE_bdgAeWHg youre wrong

Pep doesn't even play Tiki-Taka, that's why he's successful. He adapted his play and made it way more faster and direct that his Barca days. Mou hasn't adapted and that's why his once incredible tactics are becoming redundant. Just like Spain keeping that system and flopping in competitions after Tiki-Taka was countered. That's what makes Pep amazing.

While I agree that Pep is just playing football manager with his unlimited budget, Mourinho spend 400M already in United and have no right to complain..

Critlord all we are asking is that the team turns up and has a go. Win or lose but It's the WAY the team has been playing.

Wtf are you talking about. Liverpool and Man u and Chelsea have spent comparable sums of money to City but aren't as good. Thats down to the tactics.

Man U spend 70m on Lukaku, and 90m on Pogba, both more than any fee City have ever payed for a player. Chelsea and Liverpool's goalkeepers cost more than any City player. City dont pay more than a set amount of money for players also, and they lose a lot of biddings because of it. They lost Alexis Sanchez to United, lost Jorginho to Chelsea, took more than 2 years to sign Mahrez, etc.

Don't forget that he makes all of that signings because of the aging player like Sagna, Clichy, Toure, Navas, etc.

To answer your question simply, no Pep couldn't win the team with this current MU squad. You do bring up a good point that 7 (It is actually 7, not 9. David Silva, Sterling, Aguero and Fernandinho were all already at the club when Pep took charge) of the City players are Pep signings, compared to only 2 of United's players being a Mou signing. However, this lineup is not the most common lineup for MU this season. Players like Martial and Shaw are only playing this season because they are in form, and Mou signings (Lukaku, Sanchez) are not in form. Even then, 4 out of the 7 players with the most minutes in the league for MU this season are Mou signings, while 4 out of 7 players with the most minutes at City are Pep signings. (1/2)

According to transfermarkt, Pep's net spend at City (Bought - sold) is 447.39 Mil Euros while Mou has a total spending of 350.1 Million Euros. Now if you take into account that 3 of the top 5 most paid players in the EPL are United players (Pogba, Lukaku and Sanchez), while only De Bruyne is the only player in that top 5 from City, that difference in transfer spending is reduced even more. Therefore, Mou needs to stop complaining about not being able to sign his players. It hurts to defend Pep and Man $hitty, but they are not playing fantasy football, they are spending their money wisely. We as United fans need to stop using money as an excuse for our lack of performance and passion on the field. Mou has had 3 years and it is clearly not working, time to go.

La ligua is the temple of fantasy footbal. Pep is telling you in EPL, it is time for you to change. To be sure to win a game, be sure to possess that game, and now individual tactics will do the rest

I am happy that the replies are sane, thanks. Well, i agree with most of you too but i want to clarify that when i meant fantasy football, it wasn't just money but getting the exact player you want. if you recollect fantasy teams are all same budget and you get to select each player as you want. Similarly, i meant pep has exactly the players he wants for his system and he gets it. Money has become a bit irrelevant now because of the crazy money. Also a big reason is Txiki, he built the team at barca with pep and he again set up manc. But manu bought random people without any plan. Hence we see no harmony. Also mourinho with his mourning doenst help that case. It is the same reason that some smaller clubs function greatly as a unit but ultimately fail in big matches due to lack of quality.

That's just football. Maybe in 15 years, Wigan will dominate the League by winning with more than hundreds points and undefeated.

Yes, he was injured.

None of these players you mentioned are creative players. I love them all, but we have been missing a creative player since Coutinho left that's why we were trying to sign Fekir. We also don't have players that can keep position like City does. We often create our own problems by losing the ball and giving the opponents a chance to score. If you ask Liverpool fans they will tell you we're missing players like the Silvas, KDB, or even Fernandinho but mostly creative players that can keep the ball for a period of time without losing it.

team player.

His work rate mate. Amazing player!

Invincible say hello

I mean it's more competitive these days than when the Invincibles were around so that's hard to compare

How is it competitive these days? Man city won the league by a landslide last season and accumulated 100 points which shows how shit the other top 5 were

Back in the invincible days there were man United Chelsea and Liverpool who actually gave a challenge and not rolled over

In the invincible' s season, Arsenal still had like 12 draws or something. Thats still a lot. Not really domination.

Which proves my point of better competition back then. Man city were scoring 6 goals for fun last season against the bottom lesgur table opponents which only would've happened 2 o 3 times max in 2004. Had city played in 2004 they would have struggled believe me only kids will say otherwise

Half of those players don't even start when fit either way.

nope. because see how much money the spent compare to other teams especially bottom 10.during Arsenal season, the money spent are not that much