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

mccity said:
They are entirely comparable. Ferguson outspent everybody time and time again and despite domestic dominance had extremely limited success in Europe. They got knocked out by some real bad sides and on more than one occassion didn't even get out of the group. Fortunately for them their upper management realised how great it was to be as dominant on English shores as they were and didn't let a good thing go. They let him rebuild every time things went a bit downhill.

You ask about Pochettino at Madrid, but remember Mourinho was never sacked there despite never winning the CL until he lost the dressing room. They even extended his contract in the months prior to his sacking. When you have something especially good you don't get rid the first chance you get.
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Did you see kdb's interview? He looked like Pep had lost him.
 
balotelli's back pocket said:
some of you are in for a rude awakening when this man leaves.

i have no doubt we will be successful, but it will take patience and time.

and maybe some will finally realise that being a manager is about more than just 90 minutes twice a week.
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sutty66 said:
bang on mate!! and this is what is hurting us fans it’s four years in a row tinkering and arrogance costing us, fucking play your best eleven especially in champions league straight knockout ffs but it’s king pep who’s untouchable and little city soo lucky to have him, and fucks our youth off so easily...
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spot on
 
Soriano and Txiki put so much effort to bring Pep here no way they would ever sack him. I think Mansour or Khaldoon had to order it to happen.

And pretty sure they would never question him they are life long friends with Txiki.
Even if he crashes out from PL top 4 they would not fire him. Only after he signs a big renewal to get a crazy compensation.

Sarri obviously had no such relation to Juventus board and he lost to Lyon nd was fired within 1 hour after winning the Serie A.

Here Pep would not get fired even he finishes 4th next season and loses again in CL early rounds.
 
cleavers said:
A City defeat, and a chance to be ultra negative is his happy place, that's why we don't see him that often.
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This is more his sadist place.

But good point — perhaps we don’t want to drive him to his true “happy place”.

Unleashing that unto the world may be a grave mistake.
 
Marvin said:
Klopp didn't have the world's best players bought at great expense and left on the bench whilst he played 3 players together who even Steve Mcmanaman had immediately worked out to be wrong.
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Not much in it between Pep or Klopp but the latter does has the reputation of bottling it when things are tough
 
OB1 said:
Then you think wrong. And given that he has explained his team selection, that's pretty poor from you.
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I had no problem with his team selection explanation, but it was clear and obviously not working after 15 minutes. It was done to push their wing backs back which he understandably feared a bit, and it failed, it just nullified ours from the game, particularly Walker, and they just kept lobbing the ball over us, and getting us running back towards our goal.

He did nothing for an hour, and what he did, did have an effect for a bit until the 2nd was scored, and he still did nothing else, until he gave David a token gesture last appearance when it was obvious the game was done, and/or needed some pace.

I think those shouting for him to go are being ridiculous, but he's lost a lot of credit for a lot of tonights game, and then to compound it by saying we played well second half really doesn't help, when we clearly did nothing of the sort, we had a decent 10 minutes all game which culminated in us conceding another shit goal.

It was Norwich away, over again.
 
Marvin said:
You can laugh it off. I can't. I'm gutted. We lost in completely farcical style and I'm blaming the coach.
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He has to live with his share of the blame. He’s not a dead man walking though or whatever other hyperbolic bullshit you’ve come out with.

He played a certain way that stifled our attack, but also did theirs. We conceded a very unlucky goal.

We brought Mahrez on. We looked more of a threat. Scored. Looked like we might even win.

The new formation also left us open to the counter attack. They score. It shouldn’t have stood.

Sterling should equalise. He misses an open goal.

They score a 3rd after an Ederson mistake.

If we’d started with Mahrez (or whoever else you want to pick), we would have been susceptible to their pace in attack. We still were to a degree, but we nullified it barring a ball over the top that Garcia managed to stop, but the ball fell to one of their players and Ederson was advancing in case Garcia couldn’t stop the attack. It was unlucky. If that hadn’t been scored, at 0-0, we could have taken our time and picked them off as they got tired.

They scored. We had to change at some point and Pep made the change as early as he risked possible. The counter attack threat on 4 at the back was bigger (as we later found out).
 
jacobsdad said:
If he does decide to go after tonight, or even if the players begin to turn against him who will the club look at replacing him with?
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De bruyne had as good as turned against him after 10 minutes of that game you could see it. He knew it was a bottle job. I'm with kev
 
Damanino said:
Soriano and Txiki put so much effort to bring Pep here no way they would ever sack him. I think Mansour or Khaldoon had to order it to happen.

And pretty sure they would never question him they are life long friends with Txiki.
Even if he crashes out from PL top 4 they would not fire him. Only after he signs a big renewal to get a crazy compensation.

Sarri obviously had no such relation to Juventus board and he lost to Lyon nd was fired within 1 hour after winning the Serie A.

Here Pep would not get fired even he finishes 4th next season and loses again in CL early rounds.
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Sheikh Mansour invested considerable sums on City and has been at the centre of damaging public scrutiny. The very least I would expect from very highly paid managers is that they put my best team out on the pitch, and give absolutely everything to win.

The team selection was a insult tonight and Pep deserves every bit of criticism that is coming his way.
 
For me, he needs to either commit his future to the club this summer, or leave this summer. Going into a rebuild with uncertainty over the manager’s future would be a recipe for disaster.
 
I know I should’nt have looked in this thread. Everybody going nuts about a defeat that could well have been avoided if only...
I have supported this club by regularly attending for nearly fifty years. In the last 4 years i have seen football that is beyond my wildest dreams. in one season won every trophy available in the English game; in another season we won the league with 100 points and scored more than a hundred goals. Every season of Pep’s tenure we have had terrible luck / been cheated / played poorly (delete as appropriate) in a competition that is all about keeping the ‘elite‘ elite. So what? If you want me ( or other long time attending supporters ) to turn on our manager then you can get to fuck. Go and support one of the entitled clubs if you have the choice - I was born in Saint Mary’s and spent my formative years in Gorton. My Dad and all of my family are Blue. I had no choice in who I support and I will certainly not turn against a manager who has given me the best football memories that I have.
I am only guessing that those spouting all this vitriol are not regular attendees. If you are a Manc match goer, then I apologise for criticising your viewpoint - but I hope that any ‘regulars’ will feel different after a good kip.
If you are a fan from afar, then accept selections and results don‘t always go the way you want. But if you want to slag off our manager because he’s upset your TV viewing then follow this famous Manc mantra and DO ONE !
 
Khaldoon end of season review coming up I assume soon.

Wonder whats his take in this CL failure and the way we let Liverpool win the league with 20 points ahead...

Probably will be mostly about our CAS win tho.

There could be an interesting turn tho if PSG would manage to deliver CL trophy with their relation to Qatar.
Wonder how much pressure City would put on CL then.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
He has to live with his share of the blame. He’s not a dead man walking though or whatever other hyperbolic bullshit you’ve come out with.

He played a certain way that stifled our attack, but also did theirs. We conceded a very unlucky goal.

We brought Mahrez on. We looked more of a threat. Scored. Looked like we might even win.

The new formation also left us open to the counter attack. They score. It shouldn’t have stood.

Sterling should equalise. He misses an open goal.

They score a 3rd after an Ederson mistake.

If we’d started with Mahrez (or whoever else you want to pick), we would have been susceptible to their pace in attack. We still were to a degree, but we nullified it barring a ball over the top that Garcia managed to stop, but the ball fell to one of their players and Ederson was advancing in case Garcia couldn’t stop the attack. It was unlucky. If that hadn’t been scored, at 0-0, we could have taken our time and picked them off as they got tired.

They scored. We had to change at some point and Pep made the change as early as he risked possible. The counter attack threat on 4 at the back was bigger (as we later found out).
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I know the game was on a knife-edge but it should never have been so, and it was so because of the inexplicable selection of Gundogan, Fernandinho and Rodri.
 
Marvin said:
I can think of one explanation: he thought I can beat these and keep my strongest side fresh for Bayern. Stupid plan if that was it
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Quick question, what would the best side have been ?

Given that he made (unusually for Pep) just 1 change to the side that just knocked out the new Spanish champions, who had won every game since football returned ?

Name it.
 
trotsky said:
I know I should’nt have looked in this thread. Everybody going nuts about a defeat that could well have been avoided if only...
I have supported this club by regularly attending for nearly fifty years. In the last 4 years i have seen football that is beyond my wildest dreams. in one season won every trophy available in the English game; in another season we won the league with 100 points and scored more than a hundred goals. Every season of Pep’s tenure we have had terrible luck / been cheated / played poorly (delete as appropriate) in a competition that is all about keeping the ‘elite‘ elite. So what? If you want me ( or other long time attending supporters ) to turn on our manager then you can get to fuck. Go and support one of the entitled clubs if you have the choice - I was born in Saint Mary’s and spent my formative years in Groton. My Dad and all of my family are Blue. I had no choice in who I support and I will certainly not turn against a manager who has given me the best football memories that I have.
I am only guessing that those spouting all this vitriol are not regular attendees. If you are a Manc match goer, then I apologise for criticising your viewpoint - but I hope that any ‘regulars’ will feel different after a good kip.
If you are a fan from afar, then accept selections and results don‘t always go the way you want. But if you want to slag off our manager because he’s upset your TV viewing then follow this famous Manc mantra and DO ONE !
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I was born in Withington hospital. I've supported City all my life too. We might consider ourselves unfortunate tonight but when you don't select your strongest side in a game of such magnitude you do not deserve to go through. Indeed you deserve maximum censure for all manner of disrespect.
 
cleavers said:
Quick question, what would the best side have been ?

Given that he made (unusually for Pep) just 1 change to the side that just knocked out the new Spanish champions, who had won every game since football returned ?

Name it.
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-------------------Ederson
Walker-------Garcia-----Laporte----Mendy
------------------Rodri
---------KDB-------------Foden
-------Mahrez----Jesus----Sterling
 
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