blueballs84
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That's why I like Ten Hag or Luis Enrique.
Both have similar philosophies to Pep and one even has experience taking over a team from Pep and being successful with it.
Enrique won't leave Spain before the Euro's though.
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That's why I like Ten Hag or Luis Enrique.
Both have similar philosophies to Pep and one even has experience taking over a team from Pep and being successful with it.
Enrique won't leave Spain before the Euro's though.
blueballs84
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Disagree but you're welcome to your opinion.Enrique isn't the worst but Ten Hag isn't that great.
Not a domestic trophy as managers between them. Guardiola wannabees, promising but unproven, and you think City should risk their multi-million investment on potentially good managers when we already have one of the greatest starting to build a new squad. Let's get Harry Redknapp, at least he has won an F.A Cup and he specializes in spending other peoples money
I think there's a pretty strong chance whoever replaces Pep has no trophies whether that's next summer or after another couple of years if he extends.
Nagelsmann, Marco Rose, Pochettino, Hassenhuttl, maybe Favre. They will go for an up and coming coach who will carry on Peps work and maybe even modernise it.
Unless Poch has relaxed his hatred to all things FC Barcelona (given who we have currently got on our board) then he is off the list. The rest aren't the worst of suggestions and would do a job in freshening up the place.
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• Pep outfoxed himself, but he was too stubborn or proud to change it early, when he could have slid Ferna into MF, and moved KDB into false nine.
• Ederson saved a Walker OG attempt(!) and a few shots, but is at least 50% to blame for 1st goal (after Walker & Laporte HORRENDOUS @defending”) and 99% to blame for their 3rd.
• Walker is too dumb to play a high line, but his pace usually saves his arse when he allows players to get the wrong side of him. On their 1st, he not only plays another man inside, but he jogs back while watching his own man score the goal unmarked, zero pressure! Players elsewhere on the front line even use him to spring the offside trap and the other defenders are too fucking brain dead to follow the man, then it costs us. Speaking of which...
• Laporte played his worst game in Blue EVER.
• Midfield was slow and ponderous, against a strong and fast opposition, which allowed them into their defensive shell when we got the ball...but even that was only if they didn’t fight to win it back. They didn’t give us a minutes peace, and successfully shut out the outlet pass to the wings repeatedly.
• Sterling...what can you say? He is the worst finisher of any “world class” forward I have ever seen in my 56 yrs on earth. Sure, he can come in from the left, dummy a shot (usually a few times!!!) and wrap one into the far corner every month or so, but for our top scorer to miss the most important goal scoring opportunity of the season, from 5 yards out, with an open goal, on his preferred right foot, is fucking unbelievable...oh wait, no, it isn’t, because he’s gone it before!!! Give me £80M for him now and I’ll take your hand off! OK, £70M, done!
• Cancelo is not a left back, and certainly not in this team. Mendy should have played if we were playing 3/5, and we were looking for the whipped ball in behind.
Lastly, CLINICAL FINISHING. We lack it, winning clubs have it! We score tons of goals, but we miss tons and tons more! Not good enough.
This team is tired. Pep’s system is tired, because even bad clubs know how to nullify it.
Time for some new blood and for a Pep to stop tinkering every fucking day!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
You can't blame Ederson for the first goal.
He absolutely has to come out to close down the angle when a player is through 1v1 on him, and he has no time to get back to his line after the ball goes loose, and the finish gave him no chance.
How is it good tactics to pick pedestrian defensive central midfielders against a team that is likely to defend the penalty area? Has Pep lost his raison d'etre? The Pep that started at barcelona and won everything would not have played tactics like that. Be true to your principles Pep. They've worn you down and broken you. Self-doubt. He even says it post-match that i am not sure if I can win the Champions League.
In his first season, pep came here and we had kamikaze attack with a 35 year old defence but it was understandable. There was no alternative. Now we have Foden's and Bernardo Silvas and we play a Lyon side with a packed defence and what does Pep do, he leaves Foden and Bernardo on the bench and plays Gundogan and Rodri in front of Fernandinho who is completely useless. I suspect the road to Lisbon was a series of European defeats that have sapped pep's self belief but when that happens it's time to ask questions.
I'll never figure this game out or where it came from. It's just irrational.
In his first season, pep came here and we had kamikaze attack with a 35 year old defence but it was understandable. There was no alternative. Now we have Foden's and Bernardo Silvas and we play a Lyon side with a packed defence and what does Pep do, he leaves Foden and Bernardo on the bench and plays Gundogan and Rodri in front of Fernandinho who is completely useless. I suspect the road to Lisbon was a series of European defeats that have sapped pep's self belief but when that happens it's time to ask questions.
I'll never figure this game out or where it came from. It's just irrational.
Weird team selection, I just don't understand Pep at all at times and would say the players feel the same.
Personally think his time is over with us, it's been wonderful to watch the team he has created, amazing, dream football, but I fear we have peaked under him.
We are in need of a partial rebuild and don't think the club should allow him to be part of it unless he commits to a new deal. But after last night I am not sure either party will want him to stay longer than his present deal.
The big question is do the club want a manager who will leave at the end of next season to lead us next season? Big decision.
Personally think his time is over with us, it's been wonderful to watch the team he has created, amazing, dream football, but I fear we have peaked under him.
We are in need of a partial rebuild and don't think the club should allow him to be part of it unless he commits to a new deal. But after last night I am not sure either party will want him to stay longer than his present deal.
The big question is do the club want a manager who will leave at the end of next season to lead us next season? Big decision.
The decision to play Garcia was a joke.
Pep rightly dropped him for the Real games after his decision not to sign a contract and then puts him back in the next game, the biggest game of the season.
I am sorry but that's appalling management.
Pep rightly dropped him for the Real games after his decision not to sign a contract and then puts him back in the next game, the biggest game of the season.
I am sorry but that's appalling management.
Pep has lost his nerve. Such a strange decision to play defensive players in a game where the opponent predictably defended deep. If these defensive players were Vinny Kompany behind Nigel de Jong I'd understand in part, but Fernandinho is no central defender whilst Gundogan and Rodri have no pace. Rodri was enough in front of a 4. We had Laporte. There's Walker's pace in defence. There really was no need to make these changes. All it did was limit our offensive potential.Weird team selection, I just don't understand Pep at all at times and would say the players feel the same.
Personally think his time is over with us, it's been wonderful to watch the team he has created, amazing, dream football, but I fear we have peaked under him.
We are in need of a partial rebuild and don't think the club should allow him to be part of it unless he commits to a new deal. But after last night I am not sure either party will want him to stay longer than his present deal.
The big question is do the club want a manager who will leave at the end of next season to lead us next season? Big decision.
I don't get how such a celebrated coach can have come to this decision. if his judgement is gone then that's him as a coach gone. It happens> Wenger and Mourinho.
TFC
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The decision to play Garcia was a joke.
Pep rightly dropped him for the Real games after his decision not to sign a contract and then puts him back in the next game, the biggest game of the season.
I am sorry but that's appalling management.
I'm guessing it was meant to be a 'stay here/I have faith in you for the big games' moment based upon the Barca shitshow yesterday that ended in the most spectacular of backfires. Utterly bizarre decision.
He'll still go back there ffs.
Ashoka
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The decision to play Garcia was a joke.
Pep rightly dropped him for the Real games after his decision not to sign a contract and then puts him back in the next game, the biggest game of the season.
I am sorry but that's appalling management.
Sadly he was the best defender tonight. The tackle he made on the breakaway from behind was world class.. sadly the ball just went to Cornet and he curled it in for the first goal.
Our greatest strength is our attacking power, yet incredibly he leaves out some of our best players in a game of this importance.Pep has lost his nerve. Such a strange decision to play defensive players in a game where the opponent predictably defended deep. If these defensive players were Vinny Kompany behind Nigel de Jong I'd understand in part, but Fernandinho is no central defender whilst Gundogan and Rodri have no pace. Rodri was enough in front of a 4. We had Laporte. There's Walker's pace in defence. There really was no need to make these changes. All it did was limit our offensive potential.
I don't get how such a celebrated coach can have come to this decision. if his judgement is gone then that's him as a coach gone. It happens> Wenger and Mourinho.
I am speechless , one of the worst team selection I have ever had to witness, what the **** was he thinking?
He tonight is anything to go by, he is the last person Barca need.I'm guessing it was meant to be a 'stay here/I have faith in you for the big games' moment based upon the Barca shitshow yesterday that ended in the most spectacular of backfires. Utterly bizarre decision.
He'll still go back there ffs.
The best managers have a sell by date, sadly it looks like Pep's has arrived.
His performance is irrelevant, it's the decision to bring back a player who is on the verge of leaving, especially when you have players on the bench who have shed blood for this club.Not good for dressing room morale.Sadly he was the best defender tonight. The tackle he made on the breakaway from behind was world class.. sadly the ball just went to Cornet and he curled it in for the first goal.
Pep lost it when we needed a calm coach under pressure.Our greatest strength is our attacking power, yet incredibly he leaves out some of our best players in a game of this importance.
I am speechless , one of the worst team selection I have ever had to witness, what the **** was he thinking?
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If Sterling takes his chance, there's no conversation to be had.
you must have switched off before the end
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You telling me that team wasn't good enough? Are you saying we didn't create enough chances?
It was on the players tonight with a special mention for the officials.
Not the view of most of the professional football world.
Completley lost it, and made me angry.Pep lost it when we needed a calm coach under pressure.
He has made some very strange decisions this season, the one at the very start not to replace Kompany was a serious red flag, and the season has ended with one of the worst team selections in our history.