I’m not buying any manager that has these unbeaten seasons either. Football is such a random game that the law of averages means there’s at least a few days per season in different comps when you’re tired, unlucky, have injuries to best players, or the opposition is just better than you. Alonso not losing a single game with Leverkusen? It’s either absolute managerial genius, or it’s doping.
I watched Alex Ferguson’s United with some of the best players in PL history lose games all the time, in all comps, struggle in Europe massively, and even get given a game by very poor Everton teams. Yet somehow we’re supposed to believe that Pep and Klopp are geniuses who just don’t lose games season after season (excluding the cycling off seasons of course). Not buying it, never have, never will. Even Wenger’s invincibles dropped points in 12 games and went out all the other comps. Liverpool won 32 games out of 38 when they won the league and let’s be honest only dropped those other points after the restart when they’d started cycling off and got beaten by Watford City and even drew with us. I’m never ever buying that one team can be so much further ahead of every other team in the PL. If Ferguson couldn’t do it with Ronaldo Rooney Tevez Berbatov Carrick Scholes Ferdinand Vidic then I don’t know how Klopp did it with any of the player he had. If Alonso comes in and everything just carries on then I want UKAD crawling all over that place.