Pep's contract situation | 2 year extension confirmed! (pg1817)

I don't think Rodrigo will get up to speed hopefully I'm wrong, he will never be a 1 man defensive midfield but who is apart from our ageing CB, the problem we face is replacing world class players, I knew I would never see another Colin Bell and never have, KDB against the Arse is as close as I've seen, Phil will be another worldie but defence is what we need 4 world class defenders we have 1, then Rodrigo will be a fit but at the moment we are too exposed with what we have, Pep seems to be changing the system to accomodate this as in the Arse game.
 
christen at St Marks said:
I don't think Rodrigo will get up to speed hopefully I'm wrong, he will never be a 1 man defensive midfield but who is apart from our ageing CB, the problem we face is replacing world class players, I knew I would never see another Colin Bell and never have, KDB against the Arse is as close as I've seen, Phil will be another worldie but defence is what we need 4 world class defenders we have 1, then Rodrigo will be a fit but at the moment we are too exposed with what we have, Pep seems to be changing the system to accomodate this as in the Arse game.
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I think rodri is a player who will be very good if hes in a midfield where he has two other players doing all the running and pressing and he can do what he does best he cant do the fernandinho role
 
christen at St Marks said:
I don't think Rodrigo will get up to speed hopefully I'm wrong, he will never be a 1 man defensive midfield but who is apart from our ageing CB, the problem we face is replacing world class players, I knew I would never see another Colin Bell and never have, KDB against the Arse is as close as I've seen, Phil will be another worldie but defence is what we need 4 world class defenders we have 1, then Rodrigo will be a fit but at the moment we are too exposed with what we have, Pep seems to be changing the system to accomodate this as in the Arse game.
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He won't get up to speed?

So far this season, he is one of the shining lights.

Wonderful, classy player whom will serve us well for many seasons.
 
christen at St Marks said:
I don't think Rodrigo will get up to speed hopefully I'm wrong, he will never be a 1 man defensive midfield but who is apart from our ageing CB, the problem we face is replacing world class players, I knew I would never see another Colin Bell and never have, KDB against the Arse is as close as I've seen, Phil will be another worldie but defence is what we need 4 world class defenders we have 1, then Rodrigo will be a fit but at the moment we are too exposed with what we have, Pep seems to be changing the system to accomodate this as in the Arse game.
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Colin Bell was a great player without doubt but in my opinion KDB is just a better version, just my opinion. Better range of passing better shot, doesn’t score the amount of goals Bell did but KDB for me iis one of our greatest ever.
 
BLUE THUNDER said:
I thought he was going to Juventus ? last season !

wasn't that the rumour ? with impeccable sources.

such crap being floated around.

Maybe he is actually being honest when he says at the end of next season if it's still a good fit for him and the club he extends.
Did the click bait journos think of that possibility and actually report what he said, instead of fantasising between the lines.
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They do write some shit don’t they. Trying their best to get Pep out of City, if he was Liverpool manager you would never hear such rubbish he would be adored and lauded as the man who changed English football. Bastards all of them.
 
eastmanc said:
Colin Bell was a great player without doubt but in my opinion KDB is just a better version, just my opinion. Better range of passing better shot, doesn’t score the amount of goals Bell did but KDB for me iis one of our greatest ever.
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If you were there to watch him I respect your opinion, it's not mine sorry.
 
christen at St Marks said:
I don't think Rodrigo will get up to speed hopefully I'm wrong, he will never be a 1 man defensive midfield but who is apart from our ageing CB, the problem we face is replacing world class players, I knew I would never see another Colin Bell and never have, KDB against the Arse is as close as I've seen, Phil will be another worldie but defence is what we need 4 world class defenders we have 1, then Rodrigo will be a fit but at the moment we are too exposed with what we have, Pep seems to be changing the system to accomodate this as in the Arse game.
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We are getting off the subject this is what I feel relates to Pep extending it is still very much a work in progress.
 
Academica said:
Got you agree with you, we should never have bought Stones we should of bought a centre half who is good enough in your opinion. Need a world class keeper to sit on the bench most weeks and watch Ederson, someone like Neuer or Allison would of been ok. Should of bought a kompany replacement even if the right one for us was not available I'm sure if we had outbid utd and gone 90m on Maguire and £300000 grand a week we could of got him.
Definitely need a clone of Aguero so we don't have to bring anybody into the team who does not have exactly the same skill set as Kun. Thinking about it overall what has this Pep bloke ever done for us, he is destroying this club don't think we should wait till the end of the season we should dump him now.
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No one is saying get rid, you are twisting it, every single season you read on here wait until injuries hit the dippers they will be fucked blah blah blah, I always hear we have got the squad to cope with injuries, then when we do get injuries the same people are whinging how unfair it is, we are very light for actual strikers and have been for years, not just since pep, like I said in a previous post we were that light of strikers we had to play Milner up front
 
tommo74 said:
No one is saying get rid, you are twisting it, every single season you read on here wait until injuries hit the dippers they will be fucked blah blah blah, I always hear we have got the squad to cope with injuries, then when we do get injuries the same people are whinging how unfair it is, we are very light for actual strikers and have been for years, not just since pep, like I said in a previous post we were that light of strikers we had to play Milner up front
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Did we not have Balotelli, Negredo, Kun & Tevez here at the same time?

Edit: Actually I've just read the post that @Academica replied to of yours and he's correct 100%, they've not twisted anything, you just wrote a load of codswallop.
 
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samarasra said:
How did he ever manage to win 4 trophies in a season, back to back titles, lose top players to injury or retirement and still make the Carabao Cup semi-final, Champions League last 16, and 3rd in the PL. Have you some new equally successful manager in mind ready to leap to our assistance and win all domestic titles and CL in 1 season ?. City of course could afford Maguire, what they were not prepared to do was pay 30 odd million more than they valued him at, any more than Sanchez & Fred before him. Was it his fault for not foreseeing long term injuries to Stones or Laporte. City recognise that football goes in cycles , there are periods of transition, 3/4 trophies per year is fantasy football, they try to put an evolving squad together not quick fix panic buying of the latest media hyped "next Messi or Ronaldo or Beckenbaur". Mainly it is not Pep's model it is the Club's model that is relevant he is 1 important partner in a structure that decides who and how and why certain players are bought or sold. The Academy is also evolving, do you realise how many young players at top academies never get to play professional football, the statistics are amazing, if we get 2 or 3 PL squad players from the Academy in the next 5 years, while still competing at the level we have been in recent years, we will be way above average. I've seen far too high a turnover of managers since Joe Mercer's glory years in desperate searches for instant success, we now have a set up that works better than any other club, they try to copy us. We are not perfect, Pep is human, sometimes the errors he sees are not the errors we see, so unless you have an alternative, let the club do what it has done with 3 consecutive managers, build teams for consistent success. Whatever about Jose's eggs, I prefer the old blues lyrics "you don't miss your water till your well runs dry" and I don't want to see our well drained because of a short term drop in our performances.
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That deserves two likes at least but I'm only allowed the one, great post.
 
Centurions said:
That deserves two likes at least but I'm only allowed the one, great post.
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Lots of posts on here seem to be suggesting with our resources, winning is a given. The last couple of seasons have been a freak, nothing like it in modern day football. Even the Ferguson sides who, despite the furore around our money, played during the most inequitable era financially, didn’t win everything. They won something like one title in two despite having by far the most money, with the odd challenge from Leeds and Blackburn before Chelsea came along. They strengthened by weakening those around them, poaching their best players. Even with all this advantage, how often did they achieve 85 points plus? So many teams loaded with £30m plus players today, even mid-table ones. Pep is a freak and deserves time to reassess and reinvent the side.
 
samarasra said:
How did he ever manage to win 4 trophies in a season, back to back titles, lose top players to injury or retirement and still make the Carabao Cup semi-final, Champions League last 16, and 3rd in the PL. Have you some new equally successful manager in mind ready to leap to our assistance and win all domestic titles and CL in 1 season ?. City of course could afford Maguire, what they were not prepared to do was pay 30 odd million more than they valued him at, any more than Sanchez & Fred before him. Was it his fault for not foreseeing long term injuries to Stones or Laporte. City recognise that football goes in cycles , there are periods of transition, 3/4 trophies per year is fantasy football, they try to put an evolving squad together not quick fix panic buying of the latest media hyped "next Messi or Ronaldo or Beckenbaur". Mainly it is not Pep's model it is the Club's model that is relevant he is 1 important partner in a structure that decides who and how and why certain players are bought or sold. The Academy is also evolving, do you realise how many young players at top academies never get to play professional football, the statistics are amazing, if we get 2 or 3 PL squad players from the Academy in the next 5 years, while still competing at the level we have been in recent years, we will be way above average. I've seen far too high a turnover of managers since Joe Mercer's glory years in desperate searches for instant success, we now have a set up that works better than any other club, they try to copy us. We are not perfect, Pep is human, sometimes the errors he sees are not the errors we see, so unless you have an alternative, let the club do what it has done with 3 consecutive managers, build teams for consistent success. Whatever about Jose's eggs, I prefer the old blues lyrics "you don't miss your water till your well runs dry" and I don't want to see our well drained because of a short term drop in our performances.
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About hald a billion, same with Mourinho, they do well with money.
 
I would say the paper talk about Pep wanting some assurances is true.

If the club supply him with what he wants like a top CB, LB, attacker etc he’ll resign otherwise he won’t. Makes a lot of sense tbh.

We are in for a minor rebuild and it’s time to splash the cash again, especially on CB.

Give Pep what he wants and watch City dominate once again!!!!
 
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