You joke but tifo did a video a year or two ago about how pep was playing a revolutionary new formation, the 4-4-2. Of course pep’s 4-4-2 was different to a classic 4-4-2 but then again very few teams ever played a classic 4-4-2 anyway.
Man City are currently top by 1 point.
They won the league last season by 5 points, meaning that if arsenal hadn’t lost both games to city they may have won the league.
They won the 21/22 season by 1 point.
They walked the league in 20/21.
They were left in the dust in 19/20.
They won in 18/19 by 1 point.
They walked the league in 17/18.
They finished 3rd in 16/17.
In the last 7 seasons they’ve only comfortably won the league twice, all while having apparently the best manager in the history of the game and while having unlimited financial resources and breaching FFP.
If they’re punished appropriately for breaching FFP they should have 2 league titles take away from them, meaning they’ll have won the league once comfortably and twice by small margins.
And if you’re complaints about city having a monopoly on league titles you must not have been watching football for long. Man utd won 13 league titles in 20 years in the 90s and 2000s. Liverpool won 11 of the previous 20.
I don’t think it’s that. Pep has a very clear philosophy and he builds his teams to play that way. He eschewed dribblers previously because he only wanted passers. He eschewed traditional centre forwards because he wanted more players in midfield and between the lines. Now he’s changing his philosophy again and having success and people are talking about it.