Pep’s Spurs (H) Post-Match Interview

[Jesus H Gabz]

Dunno about anyone else but I’m loving it all. The difference in opinion, the debate, the passion, Pep’s masterclass in psychology, Jack’s tackle on Son, the second half atmosphere, a fully fit squad, a 4-2 comeback win against the spuds, we’re in the title race, fast attacking football….proper football is back!

 

[Bluemoonadam]

He was totally in control of himself, he repeated the message in multiple press conferences.

He got what he wanted to say out there with no room for ambiguity.

Basically saying that the whole club, players, supporters staff, have become complacent and need to wake the fuck up before the season is gone.

Exacly what we've all been seeing every week. Gundo said the same last week.

Lets see what the reaction is, the 2nd half last night was sensational, if we get everyone firing at that level we will blow everyone out of the water by miles like we used to.

Even taking into account the improvements around us, no team in the PL can get close to us when we play at our best.

Pep has also showed alot of complacency in recent games, hopefully they all wake up now.

 

[Roachy]

Maybe this is as much a message to himself as anyone else. He's lost a strong voice next to him on the bench and maybe thats something the club needs to look at.

In hindsight we can now see how important the No 2 seat is in Peps coaching team.

Not knocking anyone btw, just maybe a stronger voice required.

I agree. I also think privately Pep is his own biggest critic at times. I think he's made some judgement calls this season with players and formations that haven't really come off. I would also suggest maybe there is the possibility that, similar to us fans, he recognises things aren't quite right but isn't totally sure what.

 

[blueparsman]

Just watched the big post match interview and pep was brilliant. Very passionate and so right. Saying the team not sticking up for Lewis. Saying 5-6 spurs players all round the ref backing each other. But no one backing Lewis. He happy with the way we play but sees no fight. In everyone. We can’t win league with this attitude and he is right. We can’t keep giving goals away and have to come from behind.he wants a reaction from everyone at the club including fans. Kick up backside for everyone including himself. Hopefully it will rallie everyone together

 

[ShedDweller]

If Pep is bothered by the fans”Apathy”,maybe he should look at the Apathy” of the board.For years the media have thrown shit and lies about the OUR club,response from the board zilch,nada.and recently after the vile Liverpool transgressions where a young lady was injured,the board didn’t,t have the balls in their statement to mention it was Liverpool fans,the statement said fans.Then the Pigmol pantomime at the swamp last weekend.

I actually think thats exactly why Pep is addressing the whole organisation not just the players.

He's said many times we are too 'nice'.

He can't come out and slag off the clubs operations but this message is what he can do, and it was absolutely spot on.

We are all guily of the complacency he's alluding to.

The club is super professional, be in no doubt at all that there will be a big dicussion about this probably even happening as we speak. The club will not want any possibility of Pep thinking the club is not doing their bit. I expect that there will be some changes in how things are done.

I'd fully expect that there's already been a call between Khaldoon and the leadership group, and it will be along the lines of 'how do we support what Pep is doing' it absolutely will NOT be ignored or treated negatively.

This is fucking leadership.

 

[iwasthere1968]

Inflatable flowers , saw it on another thread , this is the answer.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Never have I booed a city team and I never will, supporters are there to support the team.
Don't you think some of the players deserve a bit of slack after our unparalleled success ?
Don't worry Pep will weed the slackers out, we support the team.
Pep is right, I'm in South stand level one, I went to the loo at half time and the amount of people laughing and joking was unreal, I couldn't believe it, we had just conceded 2 goals in 2 minutes and the league title a distant memory...as a home fanbase we need a kick up the arse, thousands sat in silence, pathetic...

You've never booed a City performance?

Personally, if I don't see the team putting it in or producing unforgiveable mistakes, I will vent my spleen.

Pep called the fans out as complacency in success. It's nothing of the sort. I didn't boo because we were losing, I booed because the effort wasn't good enough and the mistakes, comical.

And it appears Pep agreed and called the players out at half time.

 

[1.618034]

G'wan Pep!

 

[blueju]

Best bit about that and addressing something I think has been lacking for large periods of the time I’ve been watching City, the sentence about our players protecting Lewis. We are well due a team that sticks up for each other physically, that gets angry and acts when the opposition players are allowed to kick ours to fuck.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Micah needs a word in the ear after last night.

Actually I thought Spitty was very good in his comments. He's a twat no doubt but I sensed that he respected what had gone on there in the 2nd half and he also recognised the greatness of what was said afterwards.

Cnut that he is, Spitty has seen a lot in football.

Micah is a clown who laughs a lot. Brings no insight at all.

 

[ShedDweller]

Pep has also showed alot of complacency in recent games, hopefully they all wake up now.

I see it slightly differently now after listening to Peps comments.

I think he's been picking these 'strange' looking sides because he's been looking for a catalyst to change the attitude.

And reading between the lines I get the impression that the so called big name players are not doing enough in training.

Hence him sticking with what we would consider the 2nd choice players in some positions.

 

[ShedDweller]

Micah is a clown who laughs a lot. Brings no insight at all.

I don't think Micah is a clown. But he got that wrong last night.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

All this talk about ticket prices is irrelevant. The stadium is pretty much full. Its not really about the attendance, its the noise level Pep wants to raise.

The correlation between ticket prices and the type of people who are in attendance are completely relevant.

Do you think the Chinese couple sat a few seats down from me taking selfies were going nuts?

They were happy enough and seemed to have had a good spend at the Store, but they are paying a premium to attend and can decide how they show any support.

For me, anyone who pays a ticket, is already delivering the ultimate in support.

Couple of hundred thousand City fans sat at home who can't afford to go, yet the Club could easily do something about the pricing to encourage more locals to attend with the legacy fans.

 

[Weavers run]

The correlation between ticket prices and the type of people who are in attendance are completely relevant.

Do you think the Chinese couple sat a few seats down from me taking selfies were going nuts?

They were happy enough and seemed to have had a good spend at the Store, but they are paying a premium to attend and can decide how they show any support.

For me, anyone who pays a ticket, is already delivering the ultimate in support.

Couple of hundred thousand City fans sat at home who can't afford to go, yet the Club could easily do something about the pricing to encourage more locals to attend with the legacy fans.

The silver season card shows how much they want the locals mate. No chance

 

[VOOMER]

A point that’s kind of been lost is that it seems Pep is not too happy with the board either and he’s playing a bit of a public game with them to get more players in the summer. In my opinion, making a point that our net spend is not that high lately compared to our rivals and saying he wants more from “the whole organisation”, can only mean one thing… even the board are resting on their laurels. Pep has probably laid out to them how much of an overhaul is needed for us to be winners again, and they mustn’t agree. First signs of a disagreement between him and the board imo. At least in public anyway. He’s at war with board, players and fans and I find myself 100% on his side. He knows what it takes to win, and to win consistently. And we don’t have it any more.

100% correct

 

[AndyP68]

The correlation between ticket prices and the type of people who are in attendance are completely relevant.

Do you think the Chinese couple sat a few seats down from me taking selfies were going nuts?

They were happy enough and seemed to have had a good spend at the Store, but they are paying a premium to attend and can decide how they show any support.

For me, anyone who pays a ticket, is already delivering the ultimate in support.

Couple of hundred thousand City fans sat at home who can't afford to go, yet the Club could easily do something about the pricing to encourage more locals to attend with the legacy fans.

We have 36,000 season tickets. Most of those will be long standing and enough to make a noise. There are enough fans to make a noise, we just don't do it often enough. Of course we get day trippers who don't know the songs or feel the need to be vocal, they are a minority.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Fair point re injuries, but he was alternating constantly even when they were fit. We have known for ages that Cancelo is useless at RB, the fact that he got replaced in the national team in the WC but that the Portuguese Danny Mills at the rags proves it further. I honestly thought he was one of our better players in the derby. I love Zinny but he always wasn't very attacking, the problem now is that we have a guy up front that feeds on deliveries but we don't have any player in the fullback positions (other than Cancelo) that can provide.

But he has been pretty average at best this season bar the odd game hence the reason he keeps getting dropped. This is the type of player Pep is talking about. There are a few on easy street and he is one of them. Hopefully they will all wake up now and start fighting and playing again. The shift in attitude in the second half was clear after what was no doubt a severe bollocking at HT. We didn’t play that badly first half and had a couple of good chances but the goals we gifted were an absolute joke and he is right in highlighting that if we carry on playing like this and gifting goals, we will not be winning anything. It’s all about attitude regardless of who steps on the pitch and we haven’t had the right one in lots of games recently which started against Brentford. If players don’t want to be here then get rid of them and that includes Bernado. If they are not good enough anymore then get rid.

 

[jrb]

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

The correlation between ticket prices and the type of people who are in attendance are completely relevant.

Do you think the Chinese couple sat a few seats down from me taking selfies were going nuts?

They were happy enough and seemed to have had a good spend at the Store, but they are paying a premium to attend and can decide how they show any support.

For me, anyone who pays a ticket, is already delivering the ultimate in support.

Couple of hundred thousand City fans sat at home who can't afford to go, yet the Club could easily do something about the pricing to encourage more locals to attend with the legacy fans.

There are a number of factors in play here.

If you take the current mood of your average legacy fan right now….. We’ve just watched the second corruptly awarded World Cup in a row. We come back from a World Cup break to have coins and spit rained down on us in the South Stand from scousers. The club refused to blame Liverpool fans whilst asking City fans in Level 2 whether they have any footage of the alleged incidents. My phone doesn’t film through underneath of a tier. It was a derisory response. They then repeated the trick with Chelsea. Then we watched plain, bare faced cheating at Old Trafford from match officials endorsed by the Premier League to protect their product abroad. No complaints from the club or Pep.
Seems to me they want passion from the fans that they treat with disdain. I just have a season ticket and I’m in the cup scheme to attend all the home games. I’m not a proper fan who is active across several social media platforms, manically liking and sharing all things Manchester City.

You reap what you sow City. If you show some fight, and prove you‘re in my corner, so will I.

 

[Silvas Left Peg]

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You wouldnt get it at anfield he is right... because theyre fucking junk... they celebrate beating us as if its trophy, they have slowly reverted back to their level so it was fun while it lasted for em