Is Pep Guardiola a busted flush?

At Barca he became coach when the Spanish national team were in their prime (WC 2010; EC 2008 + 2012) and Barca was the core of it. The rest was made of players like Messi; some claim second best player in the world at that time.

When he came to Munich, he took over a team that had won the trible, and albeit he availed nothing (CL-wise), the core players (Neuer, Lahm, Müller, Boateng, Schweinssteiger etc.pp) went on, without him, to win the World cup in 2014.


The Greenkeeper would have won the leage with these two teams.

Now, he is in Manchester, with nearly infinite resources - at least compared to other teams - and he could spend money as he saw fit, and yet: rien!


If Arsenal, ManU and that club from Liverpool (not Everton) get their acts together, even the CL qualification might be in danger.

I even doubt his "great potential" as stated in your definition of "busted flush".

I have an other word for him:


Scheinriese => Schein - to appear, to seem ; Riese = Giant


"The phantom giant in the children's book Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver, written by German author Michael Ende, provides us with a perfect analogy of the race problems we are currently facing. When he is far away, the phantom giant appears enormous. The closer you get, the smaller he becomes."