Much as you want to hate City, and point to their depth and money, I begrudgingly agree with Ige: Pep knows what he's doing. You can have all the money and talents but it guarantees nothing without the right architect. Chelsea and Everton prove this. Newcastle probably understands this, hence not splashing out.
I really would like to see Pep managing a team with financial limits, though. Say, like Spurs?
It's a dream to have a club that sanctions a manager to get the talents he needs, and give him full focus on tactics. Klopp used to have that, but since we lost Edwards and Ward, we have (all due respect) a far inferior replacement (some retired German GK) so now he is forced to assist with acquisition and so no longer has talent brains helping out, and we suffer because he has less time now to enforce his ideas.
Liverpool doing the job much easier than expected today but I sort of think this is more about Aston Villa. Still very small sample size but it seems to me that Villa will be excellent against smaller clubs and then loose big against stronger ones. They were nowhere against Newcastle in second half, they are really poor today and in between they destroyed weaker opposition.
Could have been even better for LFC today if Nunez were just a bit more clinical, but he scored last week when it was important. Who cares about today
Hate to say it, but truth. Villa rolled over and respected us too much. Tried from distance, and rushed their shots. The last time I remember them playing a Big Six well was when they were 2-0 up against City on final day 2 seasons ago... they allowed 3 goals after that and I think psychologically never recovered.
Nunez still got 9 points for an assist and I guess bonus points in FPL? I don't mind, either, he loves the post though...
