Banter 2009/2010

Originally Posted by LebRN

Seriously??? You just crucified Hiddink for some substitution he made and you put Ancelotti, the guy who let slip a 3-0 lead in a CL final for God's sake (not to mention the Deportivo 4-1 lead from the 1st leg!!!) ahead of him???

From the whole 180 minutes against Barca last season, that is all u saw????
Barca were playing fantasy football at the time and were supposed to crush all opposition and Chelsea were only undone by a last-gasp goal and not just the result, the performance they put in, especially in that return leg in London was simply a masterpiece!!!

Come on people! Hiddink is world class!!

I agree, Hiddink is world-class, but he's not in the same league as Capello or Lippi, as I already said.

I don't want to enter discussion about Ancelotti too much, he made some mistakes yes, those loses came because he didn't want to rotate during season, with our midfield trio playing 50 games a season, season after season, but he practically made the team that was struggling to get 4th place on Serie A table into the best team of this decade, the team who made 3 CL finals in 5 years, with just under 50 mil. spent on transfers (35 on Nesta and 15 on Kaka). His genius made Pirlo from average attacking midfielder into the best deep-lying playmaker for years and he took written off Seedorf for nothing, making the best midfield in the world. Hiddink never had success with a big team, so it's silly to say he's the best coach in the world.

I don't want to enter another pointless discussion, but I think that Barca is over-hyped and if there wasn't a CRMINAL refereeing in the second leg, they wouldn't be in CL final last year. For you, Barca is playing fantasy football, but for me Barca is very good team with slow and predictable game. If you watched football back in mid '90's, Barca were playing slow predictable "fantasy football" like now, and then came Milan with powerful midfield and "mighty" Barca made one shot on target for whole match, struggling to keep possession even for 20 seconds, conceding 4 in the process (it could be more).

For Dzeko, Dzeko has told that he won't leave Wolsburg in January on local TV station the other day. He will perhaps leave in June...