If that was a first team?
I guess the general view of the first team is this.
Ederson
Walker Ake Laporte Mendy
Rodri
kev Bernardo
Foden Kun Raheem
Only 3 didn't play. So we still put out a side most clubs would die for. It's Pep's fucking job to get them playing as a team.
But weren’t the rumours he was over whispering sweet nothings in messi’s ear ..Someone else mentioned this in this thread but why the fuck did Pep not return from Spain earlier... Had to self isolate (which he knew he would have to), so missed the best part of a week of preseason training. I found that very odd.
Yeah ,is possession with purpose and repossession/press the only game in town? Still have to defend well.Team meeting ASAP. Pep needs to ask the group directly are they still following his methods. Honest conversations and cool heads needed now. They have let him down and owe it to pep to turn it around.
This number two we appointed doesn't inspire much confidence, just seems to sit there hardly showing any emotion at all. Pep still seems to turn to the bigger guy with the near bald head for advice.
To be fair the warning signs were starting to show when you get turned over 3 times was it last season by the rags managed by a very ordinary manager,losing once can be written off as a lucky hit ..What if they following his ideas/tactics but this is his tactics? Which clearly has been found out way too many times now.
Norwich last year started it really with fucking Teemo Pukki doing the Vardy role.
Pep needs to change tactics/formation because this one is not working with these set of players. Do we need to forget the high defensive line? Maybe yes.
If we need to keep the high defensive line can we get away with lack of workrate and serious pressing from midfield/attackers/wide players? No way we can...
what Pep will do about that?
What if the competition did really improve a lot, the general level of clubs between 6th and 14th is a bit harder and respond better to weaknesses...
Also our record vs top6 clubs last season sucked. I would say top8 because these days Wolves and Leicester should be included imo and would not say they were any worse than an underperforming Arsenal or Spurs.
Solskjaer winning home and away against Pep in league. He is about as good manager as good LB Mendy has been at City.
What he says to the media will be completely different to what he says in the dressing room.Unimpressed with his comments tonight that the game was lost because the players got nervous and lacked belief. That's the kind of "not me guv" attitude that splits a dressing room.
This is the problem with Pep being the end game and everyone in charge being his mate. Any other manager and the board would have demanded an answer regarding if he was staying or not. They wouldn't allow it to hang over the entire season only for the manager to tell us in 6 months time he's leaving.
They need to sit him down tomorrow and say are you staying or going? Then we can start making plans and even start recruiting players the next manager would be interested in.
Txixi has Alan Pardew on speed dialTime for Big Sam or maybe Steve McLaren?
What he says to the media will be completely different to what he says in the dressing room.