Another manager in the vein of Jose, take over a club at its peak.... Bayern are completely demolishing the league, Dortmund have gone way off the boil, losing a couple players(though getting one back this window). All he has to do is not screw up, which is pretty much all Jose has had to do anywhere.
I would have much prefered to see Guardiola take on a team that needed work, rather than maintainance, but then why would any manager do that given the choice.
He may be the best manager to ever live, but personally I can't stand the plaudits and adulation when someone takes over a top team/squad and simply continue to win.
Jose/Guardiola would prove so much if they took a Spurs/Arsenal/Malaga/AC type team/squad and improved them, rather than take a clearly dominant team and continue to dominate.
This season currently, Bayern have almost a third more points than their closest rival(42 vs 33), the two closest rivals have both basically conceded three times as many goal and they've scored a third more than their closest rivals.
For instance I think while a lot of managers could improve Arsenal a little, would clear out the dead wood easily and maybe improve us, it would take a pretty good manager to fight against Chelsea and likely City with a better manager in the future. A average manager could probably still win titles with Barca, ultimately you tell everyone to keep doing what they've been doing. The same manager that could win a title with a prebuilt Barca, might fail badly at a club like Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea that needs rebuilding.
The most interesting thing will be, based on previous "issues" he's had with strong personalities and difficult players, how he might cope at places other than Barcelona. Sure its only Ibra's view but it paints a picture of a timid man that works well in an atmosphere at Barca where the players are pretty quiet/respectful types with no real ego's/problems at all. He supposedly refused to talk to Ibra and at least by Ibra's description came across as a many completely unable to deal with anything but the best behaved players. Maybe he'll show us something brilliant, I just wanted to see him take a bigger job and see what he can do building a team himself.
