Do You Consider Guardiola a Great Manager?

Very good manager, whilst I personally disagree with GuitarAbuse and would say tactics is where he falls short, I think his charisma and personality make for a very good team moral, which is of course what SAF has always built his sides on.

He also has a great way of handling young players (he was previously the youth team manager) and knowing when people need replacing, and he has made great signings and imo, handled media very well (dealt with Jose's best wummary).

Do You Consider Guardiola a Great Manager?
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no.

the current barca team was pretty much started with cruyff in the early 90s and has been developed through a succession of managers.

guardiola just happens to be the one to reap the rewards of years of hard work.

as for tactics - he was totally outthought by mourinho in the CL semi with inter, and frankly had it not been for superb performace by messi he'd have done it again with real a year later.

In short, yes! Out of 14 Cups and titles open to him in his (short) time at Barca, his won 11 of them!

he had most of the current crop as the manager of the acadamy side from La Masia. He oversaw the developement of most of the current crop. He is Mr Barca, a great manager , coach and tutor. But I am not convinced that he would succeed at any other club.

He is up there with the best imo.

Busbybabes,

Check out Barca's evolution in Pep's years in hard tackle or the various tactics he has adopted in Zonal Marking and you'll know that he is not as inept as most people think.

Here's another article about a tactic that they have started adopting recently to counter teams that sit deep or park the bus against them (like Inter did).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2010/oct/26/the-question-barcelona-reinventing-w-w

and as good as Messi is, you have to play him in the right way to get the most out of him, something Argentina always fail to do.

Of course he´s a great manager.

He won the League, Cup and Champions League in his first season at Barca and in his three seasons as Barca manager has won 2 Champions Leagues, 3 titles as well as the Copa Del Reyes and the SuperCopa.

Previous to Guadiola Barca had only ever won the Champions League twice in their entire history.

In his 3 seasons at Barca Guardiola has already equalled that.

I personally don't think you can be a bad manager and win what he has. He has also managed to keep a squad that could easily be full of ego's relativity grounded.

His man management appears to be good and he has manged to draw Fabregas and Pique back to the club. I think his big test would be to leave as everyone will compare to his barce record. I am doubtful he would ever be a united manager but wouldn't be surprised to see him at chelsea once AVB stops being Romans new favourite puppet.

I tihnk in summary he is one of the few managers who have spent millions on a squad and kepting winning and when he didn't he kept his job and te squad together.

he's definitely good, but Mourinho owned him on the field and in the transfer market with Inter.
Although he inhereted the 2006 championship team, he's definitely made Barcelona the best club in the world though, and it has affected the Spain national team as well as they are the best internation team in the world now.