Pep set to leave?

He can't be that good a tactician. Chelsea essentially did the same thing twice and Pep still insisted on playing the same way.

Wenger had arguably the best team in England from 2000--2004, did he manage to win back to back league titles or the CL?

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the point being arguably, because plenty of people would also disagree. Whereas with this Barca team, everyone can clearly see they're the best in the world by a distance, and the only arguable point is whether they're one of the greatest of all time. Everything is set up perfectly at Barca... with everything being inferior at another club from the standard of players, academy, finances available etc. it's logical he won't repeat the same success.

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Their plan A is brilliant and works 98% of the time. When your opponents have 10 men camped in their own box there's not much you can do tactically. Anyway If Barca weren't so wasteful infront of goal they should have won the game easily, if there's anything you can be critical of it's their defense which let them down badly over both legs.

He can't be that good a tactician. Chelsea essentially did the same thing twice and Pep still insisted on playing the same way.

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It was working in a way, they hit the post/bar 3/4 times so it was working in that sense just couldnt actually pull it off

doesn't that sound the same as why people call Wenger tactically naive? 10 men behind the ball, missed loads of chances, poor defence gets hit on the counter.

Individual errors cost them and this was one game after god knows how many.

He has won 13/16 trophies and people still have doubts about him, unbelievable!

it's not doubting him, but it's difficult to measure how much of Barca's success is down to him until we see if he can replicate the similar success somewhere else. Clearly he can motivate but he also has possibly the greatest team in the history of football, the best player in the history of football, huge financial backing to buy the best best players around the world, an academy proving a conveyor belt of talent who fit perfectly into the team. All these things make his job multiple times easier, a manager needs a combination of different skills, Pep hasn't been required to show a couple of them yet because of the resources he's had available.

Would you want him at Arsenal once Wenger leaves?

For me a vital quality for the next Arsenal manager would be to be able to work within a budget and spot young and value players. If they can't do that then they won't survive long term since we always sell players and have to make a profit. Pep hasn't needed to do that at Barca but that's not saying he couldn't, his philosophy is probably closest to ours at the moment.