Liverpool (A) | Pre-Match Thread

[kaz7]

Pep Guardiola: "When I complain to my players, I say when you complain, you find excuses. When you find excuses, you cannot move forward. Excuses are the worst thing in football. I'm not judging what others say. I don't know the purpose of what Jurgen said.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Exactly, can you imagine going into a run of games without KDB and missing Aguero for a chink of the season, we would be screwed :)

Seriously i do agree with you, Imagine if Dias, KDB and Gundo were all out for a significant time together, we would be in a different situation.

The beauty is that we wouldn’t. We’ve got four top centre halves and four top attacking midfielders. There’s no loss in the squad we can’t cope with barring an absolute disaster.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Haha. Just watched this. The way Pep scratches his head and grimaces during that first question is exactly the same thing I do sometimes to stop myself from yelling at my kids when they are being annoying little shits and sending my blood pressure through the roof. He's desperate to give the twat both barrels and does well to restrain himself.

You could have a press conference involving the kids in any primary school and Pep would be asked more intelligent questions.

 

[Bobby Heaton Moor]

Losing it like he did at Dortmund, lovely to see. If he doesn’t like headlines why talk about City’s “holiday”? Once a clown always a clown, a rattled one is more fun though

I'm sure it'd be brought up more by the media if he was our manager but he was on course to get Dortmund relegated before he was binned off.

 

[Heath Park]

TBF despite sometimes being a sanctomonious tit the James Ducker article is excellent. Behind a paywall but here:

How a different kind of beauty is underpinning Manchester City's pursuit of the Premier League title

City's collective defensive transformation over recent months has been the most startling aspect of Pep Guardiola's rebuild

www.telegraph.co.uk

Then there is the Carragher article from the other day:

Ruben Dias should be the frontrunner for Player of the Year - he has transformed Manchester City

City stuttered post Vincent Kompany but since Dias' arrival they have found the consistent results which won league titles in 2018 and 2019

www.telegraph.co.uk

Covering all bases then!! ;-)

 

[Saddleworth2]

He just oozes class. What a fantastic philosophy he has. He has calmed me down after watching that PC. Come on City. We will Win today.

 

[Nellies left peg]

I've got my lucky City boxer shorts on and I can sense victory: )

Are they clean or haven't they been washed since last time we won at dipperville?

 

[Mancity1980]

Think this is from the embargoed part of the pre-match press conference. First question is - will there be an asterisk on who ever wins the title ? I remember previously there was discussion of how great it is to be champions this year as teams have struggled more than in a normal season due to Covid. Now, that City are likely to win it, the narrative has to change.

To win the league in a “normal” season is great, to win the league in a “strange” season is great, to win everything (which is what Pep wants to do, no doubt, listen to what he says, watch how he approaches EVERY game) in any season will be glorious.

It is the same situation for every club. The only thing that takes away from it is the opportunity to celebrate properly and parade the silverware. The funny thing about that is the dippers will not be able to do that before the title is taken from them, assuming we are successful we have until May 2023 to do so and I think the pandemic situation will allow that before then.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Pep Guardiola: "When I complain to my players, I say when you complain, you find excuses. When you find excuses, you cannot move forward. Excuses are the worst thing in football. I'm not judging what others say. I don't know the purpose of what Jurgen said.

Deep

 

[M12Blue]

To win the league in a “normal” season is great, to win the league in a “strange” season is great, to win everything (which is what Pep wants to do, no doubt, listen to what he says, watch how he approaches EVERY game) in any season will be glorious.

It is the same situation for every club. The only thing that takes away from it is the opportunity to celebrate properly and parade the silverware. The funny thing about that is the dippers will not be able to do that before the title is taken from them, assuming we are successful we have until May 2023 to do so and I think the pandemic situation will allow that before then.

Perhaps if we win it the big blue bus will take a diversion by Anfield, only fair that we rub their noses...., sorry give them a bus parade