I'm making a small comp featuring loads of lovely runs from Iniesta and I'll show you this amusing comp from master Spooky!:
YouTube - PES2011 - Goal Compilation 2
That whole 'clunky' thing! I think it's down to players not getting to grips with 'Pressure sensitive dribbling'. Like i've said before. PES's dribbling system is based on pretty much only moving the player, With FIFA the ball is glued to the player like he's on a rail (hence the perfect first touches, magnetic ball control etc..!
Notice on FIFA 11, in the arena. When you knock the ball forwards or do a trick which makes the ball go a fair distance from Kaka. He walks back tot he ball, but he dosen't walk back to the ball naturally, it' s like he's being pulled by the ball magnetically to stay with it!
Also look around in this thread or in the discussion thread and Zenit fan noticed that when you knock the ball ahead with the right stick. Every player runs at the same pace! These are examples of the whole 'generic' way the game has been created! That's why I say FIFA is just nice, fancy animations, there's nothing else there and I'm really even impressed with these animations because they rarely factor in player attributes. You can still dribble well on PES without knowing how to use the Left stick pressure sensitive dribbling but this style at first simply won't be a silky smooth as fifa!
In PES the ball is always a separate entirety from the player, this is what allows far more varied and natural first touches and even 'taxi' moments (soccer AM) which are impossible in FIFA, even when there's a heavy touch in fifa, the ball is ALWAYS magnetically stuck to the player!
This explains why FIFA is all so silky smooth (it also blends out any grit or bad touches) and why PES, it's runs very well and nicely but suffers from bad transitions from time to time because there's so many variables in dribbling! The movements which are ALL driven by attributes, every, movement and trick is driven but the attributes! That's why no 2 players seem to play the same way!
So that's why i much prefer the way PES tries to accurately simulate dribbling and ball control compared to the generic, silky smooth on rails FIFA system! I can live with bad transitions every now and then compared to that boring clinical generic on rails easy control on FIFA! This probably explains why FIFA is easier that PES to get into!