"Maybe I can call Messi & Co., and we can play for the seventh title? So tell me when and where, and we will be there." - Pep Guardiola
Last Thursday, Bayern Munich won the FIFA Club World Cup and in doing so became the first side since Barcelona in 2008-09 to complete a clean sweep of six available trophies: one season's domestic league, domestic cup, domestic Super Cup and Champions League titles and then the following season’s European Super Cup and Club World Cup. Inevitably, the temptation is to compare the two sides–Guardiola, the architect of that Barcelona team, even issued his tongue-in-cheek challenge as he congratulated the newly crowned sextuple winners–but as ever in such cases, the value lies less in determining a winner and more in observing the differences and similarities.