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

Progress in CL .....

its only our tenth season in the CL and the last to season we have become regular the last 8 in europe. Took pisscan 13 years to win it with a squad that was the best in the PL and regularly broke the British transfer record. So going by this Pep has another 8 seasons yet !
PSG have been in the CL 8 seasons in a row (less than us) and made the final. They also were taken over 3 years later.

RB Leipzig has as many CL semi finals as City, they were founded in 2009 and worked their way up from scratch.

City have been poor in Europe, no matter how anyone tries to spin it.
 
PSG have been in the CL 8 seasons in a row (less than us) and made the final. They also were taken over 3 years later.

RB Leipzig has as many CL semi finals as City, they were founded in 2009 and worked their way up from scratch.

City have been poor in Europe, no matter how anyone tries to spin it.
Or gives an indication of how much luck is involved in cup competitions
 
I am certainly not thinking Pep should go but how you think it was VAR that caused us to lose to Lyon and not Peps choice of players is ridiculous.
1-1 it had to get that right but it didnt,as i keep saying however shit we are playing the officials have to make the right decisions,when walton is on our side it is a big deal
 
PSG have been in the CL 8 seasons in a row (less than us) and made the final. They also were taken over 3 years later.

RB Leipzig has as many CL semi finals as City, they were founded in 2009 and worked their way up from scratch.

City have been poor in Europe, no matter how anyone tries to spin it.
 
I am certainly not thinking Pep should go but how you think it was VAR that caused us to lose to Lyon and not Peps choice of players is ridiculous.

Why is it ridiculous to expect VAR to do its job correctly ? Goal disallowed its stays 1-1 City could have gone on to win. Of course we dont know that but 3 seasons on the trot VAR has screwed City.
Pep could have picked the team you wanted and that goal would still have stood making it 2-1 ! We could still have lost thanks to VAR
 
Why is it ridiculous to expect VAR to do its job correctly ? Goal disallowed its stays 1-1 City could have gone on to win. Of course we dont know that but 3 seasons on the trot VAR has screwed City.
Pep could have picked the team you wanted and that goal would still have stood making it 2-1 ! We could still have lost thanks to VAR
All that really counts is pep got it drastically wrong against Lyon and VAR continues to fuck us over year after year. I have a feel VAR won’t change, I just hope pep does.
 
Why is it ridiculous to expect VAR to do its job correctly
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Of course VAR is meant to its work properly.
Sterling should have scored Ederson should have done better for the last goal
All above were contributing factors but Pep over complicating his team selection set the trend.
 
I Think some of us have a great fear of Pep leaving ,thats natural because he has been terrific, arguably the best manager weve had However last season we have gone stale yes we had some memorable performances but all in all not near the superb standard of the last few seasons To not consider how the absence of Captain fantastic negated us would be foolish What he gave us on and off the pitch was seen on the prime tv. programme However next season will be defining we simply dont know what kind of Man City we will get IMHO That is why there has been no rush on either side to extend his contract .Lets be honest his recent forays in the market have been at best mixed, with his first two signings being steady if not spectacular we await furher ins and outs The lyon match hurt us and maybe more importantly our owners ,who after throwing money at it have still been denied success in the competition they crave Finally the real question lies with the players asked to play in a formation that clearly didnt sit well are they still fully behind the gaffer? Revved up and ready to get OUR title back
 
I don't think we're particularly bad at defending set pieces, but you're maybe right that we could be better attacking them. I think we're alright with freekicks, but our corners are not anything praiseworthy.
This was Domènec Torrent’s speciality as Pep’s assistant, we havent been as good on set pieces in either penalty area since he left
 
Half watching the CL final and thinking City would thrash either of these two. With the benefit of hindsight I think Barca‘s thrashing against Bayern swayed Guardiola to pick an ultra cautious line up.
 
I hope Pep is able to change his mentality at key stages next season and in particular stops making so many changes to the side, i think in his time here there may have been once or twice where i have predicted the line up and that's it. I also think we need to be a lot more direct, it's all very good tapping the ball around the edge of the box while they have all 11 men back but we need to be hitting teams quickly on the break. Hoping that Foden and Bernardo are used a lot more next season as starters and less of our slower midfielders.
 
PSG have been in the CL 8 seasons in a row (less than us) and made the final. They also were taken over 3 years later.

RB Leipzig has as many CL semi finals as City, they were founded in 2009 and worked their way up from scratch.

City have been poor in Europe, no matter how anyone tries to spin it.
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The difference is that PSG has a man in a position of power at UEFA, which means that they don’t get kicked out by dodgy refs & VAR. in addition the don’t get derailed by UEFA on false charges, yet they’ve completely ignored FFP.
 
PSG in the CL making 1 final in 8 years might seem more impressive than what we've done, but when you remember that they can play games on Friday night the week before and rest half of the team it makes you wonder why they haven't done it sooner.
 
PSG have been in the CL 8 seasons in a row (less than us) and made the final. They also were taken over 3 years later.

RB Leipzig has as many CL semi finals as City, they were founded in 2009 and worked their way up from scratch.

City have been poor in Europe, no matter how anyone tries to spin it.
We was only formed in 2008 so I think we've overachieved if you ask me.
 
Half watching the CL final and thinking City would thrash either of these two. With the benefit of hindsight I think Barca‘s thrashing against Bayern swayed Guardiola to pick an ultra cautious line up.
You can't possibly conclude that City would thrash either Bayern or PSG. We should however have beaten Lyon and would have had a much better chance had Pep not bottled it.
 
Bayern have pace and power everywhere. They were fighting, tackling, faulting,pressing even in 90th minute, never let PSG have the ball for more than 10 seconds...

Pace and power gives them chance to play high intensity game which creates enermous risk for opponents.

Pep failed there 3x in a row to get them to final. But at least semis were not a problem unlike here at City.

Imo given how PL is we could do with more pace and power in our team. especially midfield and wings. Mahrez is a nice player but if you put Coman or Gnabry next to him these guys are like wild dogs running all game, winning ball back, helping out fullbacks, getting into box, arriving for headers, creating, scoring etc.
Mahrez is way too comfortable to this type of wing play he would not survive in this Bayern team will be intrested to see how Sane will do who does not have the best workrate off the ball imo either but going forward he is ultra dangerous on form...

The amount of work done by likes of Goretzka-Thiago duo, constant running, faults, blocking passing lanes, workrate, distribute the ball quickly and accurately etc. again Gundogan is way too slow and comfortable compared to that...
(even Muller, did anyone see how much he was helping off the ball and how he was basically everywhere all game?)

Pep needs to change these things both in PL and especially in CL.
 

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