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

_a_o_ said:
Perfect candidate - people say ‘but what has he won?’ But he’s never had a £1b squad, or chosen easy jobs like Guardiola - he’s turned down PSG, Bayern, Barcelona and Real Madrid in the past few years. He could have just collected default titles like Pep by inheriting the best squads in their respective leagues, but instead he chose to stay with the Spurs project he started.

The only thing that stopped him winning things was a lack of squad depth - players running out of fuel around April because he had no viable options to rotate them with throughout the season. He wouldn’t have the same issues here.

He also apparently turned down the United job in January, something he’d previously expressed an interest in; that suggests he’s been promised another job, and it clearly isn’t Barcelona or Juve who’ve both appointed new coaches this summer, so I’m confident it’s us.
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It certainly is very strange he has not yet returned to management. Maybe he just hasn't had the right offer, or maybe he is waiting for a job who knows.
 
_a_o_ said:
Perfect candidate - people say ‘but what has he won?’ But he’s never had a £1b squad, or chosen easy jobs like Guardiola - he’s turned down PSG, Bayern, Barcelona and Real Madrid in the past few years. He could have just collected default titles like Pep by inheriting the best squads in their respective leagues, but instead he chose to stay with the Spurs project he started.

The only thing that stopped him winning things was a lack of squad depth - players running out of fuel around April because he had no viable options to rotate them with throughout the season. He wouldn’t have the same issues here.

He also apparently turned down the United job in January, something he’d previously expressed an interest in; that suggests he’s been promised another job, and it clearly isn’t Barcelona or Juve who’ve both appointed new coaches this summer, so I’m confident it’s us.
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Too obvious.
 
Pochettino is obvious candidate because he is the only half decent manager who plays the way City board want (possession based football) who is actually available. Arsenal would not let Arteta go and same with Nagelsmann with Leipzig who is under contract there until 2023.
 
blueparrot said:
Think we are refreshing the squad though, and think we would target the same players either way.
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Yep - didn’t stop us buying KDB and Sterling in 2015 when it was pretty clear Pelle was off at the end of the season.

Have thought previously it’s unusual that Poch has gone so long without returning to football, especially seeing as some big jobs have been available during that time. Wonder if we have sounded him out or if he’s just biding his time in hope?
 
MeatHunterrr said:
Pochettino is obvious candidate because he is the only half decent manager who plays the way City board want (possession based football) who is actually available. Arsenal would not let Arteta go and same with Nagelsmann with Leipzig who is under contract there until 2023.
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Pochettino will not get on with some of our board member with their obvious former connections to Barcelona
 
RayCTID said:
Naglesmann and Arteta (won the FA cup already) for starters. For short term and Allegri. I could just tolerate Simeone
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I’d take Pochettino over all of those. He’ll develop youth which is what our academy development is all about.

Arteta also knows City but Arsenal might be reluctant to let him leave.
 
I think we missing the trick here. One way to stop leaking goals is to get a solid defender and a solid defensive midfield unit. who do we have in midfield?

Fernandino - slow. Still good but off his pace.
Rodri - slow. Error prone.

wtf are we not in for a good midfielder.
 
MeatHunterrr said:
Pochettino is obvious candidate because he is the only half decent manager who plays the way City board want (possession based football) who is actually available. Arsenal would not let Arteta go and same with Nagelsmann with Leipzig who is under contract there until 2023.
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Nearly man that jumps ship just as he's being found out.
 
I’ll be very surprised and disappointed if City appoint that twat Pochettino. He has made comments on the record when at Spurs which are extremely disrespectful to City. He’s massively overrated anyway. City could and should be aiming so much higher.
 
BillyShears said:
This crossed my mind too.
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I thought one of the benefits of a director of football is that you try to produce a certain type of football so that if your manager leaves there’s no huge transition in style.

Should mean that players bought for Pep would work for his successor. Can’t quite fathom why we’re not going out to sort the obvious gaps in our squad.
 
BillyShears said:
This crossed my mind too.
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It didn’t stop us spending when we knew Pelligrini was leaving. We went big with KDB, Sterling and a couple more I think

If he’s going and we want Poch then tell him to go now so we can get on with planning for the current season
 
Vienna_70 said:
I’ve just read in The Athletic that Pep is our longest serving manager since Tony Book, and if he's here until marc, he will be the longest since Sir Joe.

If you add together all the times Asa Hartford has managed us for a month at a time surely he's the longest serving manager in our entire history?
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I just hope the next guy whoever and whenever it is doesn't suffer from Barcaitis.

The guy down the M6 would do a good job I reckon.
 
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