“City are a different sort of team to Liverpool and just toyed with United. The difference in quality ... it was men v boys. United were so awful...These players aren’t good enough for Manchester United...It’s hope more than any belief. Ole has to take responsibility, of course he has...[but] the United players, they’re just not up to playing for Man United.”-Roy Keane.

Great coaches, Pep Guardiola, Kirby Smart of Georgia, are smart enough and honest enough to know that the secret sauce is not them, it's the players. Roy Keane seconds or thirds that point. United just does not have the players. Pitt doesn't. City doesn't have the players necessary to win the Champions League. You can scheme and tiki-taka till the cows come home but you will not be the best without the best players. There is no substitute for talent.

67 degrees.