Are these teams swapping substance for style?

We all know there are teams, managers and players in world football who are more than happy to sacrifice the aesthetically pleasing side of the game in order to win. From Herbert Chapman to Jose Mourinho, certain managers have stressed that the game is about winning and the subsequent tactics they have used were as a necessity in their search for victory. However, is it possible that in modern football there is, with some teams, the tendency to swap substance for style?
For the past seven years Arsenal have been accused of just this. It is, however, an overly simplistic analysis of a team who...