BETWEEN PARKING THE BUS AND GOOD FOOTBALL

Between parking the Bus and Beautiful football

Beauty and The Beast is an apt representation of the comparative profiles of Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho. One has conquered Europe with a master class of artistry, while the other has forced his way up the ladder with trickery and shrewdness both known and unknown to man. As a football purist who believes in the culture of the round leather game that has bridged gulfs and nations even more than religion, Pep has carved a niche for himself as true disciple of the game and is now a phenomenon. We can sit back and remember in years from now there was a time the world bowed to teams that did nothing but outclass you in every department. With scintillating displays and electric skill from the finest sets of football DNAs ever witnessed, with persistence, precision and collective triangular movement never before witnessed. Creativity has bested shrewdness since the onset of mankind. It  is creativity that engineered the world's technological advancement not shrewdness, shrewdness is a backdoor means to get the job done with less quality and this only breeds short spells of glory, what we can call unsustainable pseudo tactics. You might think of Wenger as a purist who never adapted to the changes and dynamism of the modern game and the mafia approach to winning  games, but despite his short comings he has been able to keep his presence alive in the elite strata without a single outright seasonal failure.
We are waiting to see if Mourinho will surprise us at Man United with 4 trophy-ladden seasons or hide his tail between his legs and scamper after 2 seasons with or without trophies and a cantankerous end to the tale.

I understand Pep is passing through a rough patch having to work with a team  he is raising to his desired level of tactical ingenuity. Being outplayed by Barcelona is a wake up call that there is indeed more work to be done at the blue half of Manchester as the strongest gales of tsunamies are yet to blow.
But I like to believe that good football breeds good players, while shrewd tactics produce  players that hardly can think for themselves or innovate properly during complex games which are determined by  moments of truth.
                                - Yaki Kaleem

Another  fan gives a different view,

These days I don't understand how people think or reason in football related matters. 
Please let me ask a question, what is more important in a football game, the playing style or the result?
How can Man United earn 1 point in an away game against Liverpool, while Man City gets trashed and massacred by Barcelona with a 4-0 scoreline and you believe Pep Gurdiola should be praised all because he played a better style than Mourinho, like seriously?
If playing a better style football was a guarantee for success then why did Arsene Wenger and Arsenal go up to 9 years without a single trophy and over a decade now without the Epl trophy considering the fact that they play the best kind of football in England.
Look I prefer winning the UCL trophy with "park the bus" football the way Chelsea did in 2012 to getting eliminated in the round of 16 or quarter finals with beautiful football.
I prefer winning the EPL with "park the bus" football the way Chelsea did in 2015 under Mourinho to just making the top 4 or top 7 with beautiful football.
                                  - Blazing Queen