Valencia under Ranieri with Lopez, Ilie, Farinos, Gerald, Mendietta were so entertaining it was unreal, then even under Cuper in some games they were terrific, its just that he was negative in many games hence the fans did not like him, last season, Valencia were okay not overly entertaining and not dull but they won the league partly due to the fact that Real madrid were concentrating on winning everything in their cenetenary year and putting unnecessary pressures on themselves and Depor not being able to combine Cl duties with La liga so Valencia kinf of sneaked up on them and won it
That they outplayed Liverpool is no surprise as Liverpool are the most boring team in Europe, they also outplayed Inter who again are the second the most boring team in Europe
I do not see how buying Figo, Ronaldo, Zz is not clever but buying Nedved Thuram and Buffon is
First of all you said Thuram was bought to stabilise our defence, but the defence was already good in SerieA before he and Buffon came and it was in Cl were we are always exposed as in Italy teams do not attack as much as they do in other leagues, so we can get away with being the team who conceded the least goals
Look at Cl last season, we conceded 6 goals against Celtic, 3 against Arsenal, 3 against Bayer, 2 against Depor and Nedved did not score a single goal so how can you justify that it was a clever buy
Oh okay you are saying we won the scudetto,if Inter were a reasonable team then we would have come out empty handed and these buys would have looked absolutely stupid but we did win so they look clever
Another point I do not know if you watch La liga a lot but I do not think Barc,a are entertaining, they do play a lot of dreadful matches and it was only under Cruyff that I could say they were really entertaining , sure they play briliantly in some games but on the whole they were not that good