Exception that proves the rule.

edit: coaching the national team is practically semi-retirement anyway.

Bold Tone wrote:

How old is Trap?

324 years old this spring

Plus Heynckes is ludicrously rich independently from football, money doesn't matter all that much to him at all if he isn't up for the sporting challenge.

@wengerknowsbest wrote:

Was Pep Guardiola close to becoming the next manager of this club? No. He did not want to kill Steve Bould.

Bold Tone wrote:

I think we should hire Jupp Heynckes on a short contract to de-wengerise Arsenal.
The board would not be able to bully him as he is a very experienced manager!

He is ridiculous underrated. Up there with the top managers imo.

Get Pellegrini for five years.

I'd take either of Pellegrini or Bielsa.

Bielsa has been awful this season

Pelligrini for me

Tony Montana wrote:

qs! wrote:

Official.

Wow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21048679

Only hours after this headline.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21038983

Personally I don't think Guardiola will ever manage Chelsea or City. Or any club like them, really. There's a fair amount of ideology involved in the decision to turn down the oligarchs and sheikhs and sign for a well-run club like Bayern instead. If he ever comes to England it'll be to take over United or Arsenal.

Bundesliga is basically like old spl

The impression I get is that the Bundesliga is underrated.

Bit disappointed with Pep.
He went from the club with the 2nd highest wage bill in the world to a club that is dominating its domestc league, has a strong recent record in Europe and over 100M euro in net cash on their books. Where is the challenge here? I'd rather have seen Pep take up a post at a less fortunate club like Juventus, Roma, Arsenal or even Milan. He just looks like another Mourinho

He doesn't like stress.

I never wanted that weirdo at arsenal.

Claudius wrote:

Bit disappointed with Pep.
He went from the club with the 2nd highest wage bill in the world to a club that is dominating its domestc league, has a strong recent record in Europe and over 100M euro in net cash on their books. Where is the challenge here? I'd rather have seen Pep take up a post at a less fortunate club like Juventus, Roma, Arsenal or even Milan. He just looks like another Mourinho

Where did you expect him to go? The smart money was always on the richest clubs in the world. Juve just went 49 games unbeaten. They wouldn't swap Conte for Guardiola if you offered them a ton of cash as compensation.

Tony Montana wrote:

The impression I get is that the Bundesliga is underrated.

Depends on what you mean by underrated. It's a fair bit overrated in terms of overall quality but the top teams are very good and they have the best youth generation in Europe coming through. If fair play proves to work they'll be past La Liga and Serie A in a couple of years.

Klaus wrote:

Tony Montana wrote:

The impression I get is that the Bundesliga is underrated.

Depends on what you mean by underrated. It's a fair bit overrated in terms of overall quality but the top teams are very good and they have the best youth generation in Europe coming through. If fair play proves to work they'll be past La Liga and Serie A in a couple of years.

No one really mentions it amongst Europe's best league. Not in the convos I have with people. Also on TV people don't really mention it in the UK.

I don't know about the smaller clubs at all.