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Originally Posted by Bagor
In 2008 Piquet was not a member of the Spanish team. He was surplus to requirements at Manchester United. Same with Busquets. Unheard of prior to 2008.
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Doesn't change the fact that they became top class players for the Spanish team during that 4 year period.
Both were players that started in the Barca youth system, were developed within Barca (over to Man U for a bit for Pique), and then became fixtures on both of the squads. Great work by Pep to give them a shot, but they probably force their way in with any coach.
Think the point people are trying to make is that you could have put a lot of coaches into that set up at Barca, and the same set up at Bayern Munich and they would have likely had very similar success.
The guy isn't turning around teams that are train wrecks and building them into Champions League teams. He is taking Champions League teams and keeping them Champions league teams, while having the best players in the world at his disposal.
Very easy to argue that Bayern Munich were just as good a team before he got there, and that Barcelona has not missed a beat since he left.