Spurs (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[Gorton_Tubster]

I trust that Neville and co have triggered enough of our fans into hating Pep, the club, the team. Dicks. They talk shite

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Set of fucking bluffers these lot. They’ll win fuck all and they deserve that. Worst city team I’ve seen under Pep. I can’t even be arsed watching them I don’t even look forward to it.

I doubt that you'll have season ticket but if you do PM me ..I'll have it at pro rata.

You don't deserve it you spoilt twat !!

I have the opposite problem. I look forward to it all week and then feel mightily deflated. Another media blackout, till the next one.

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

 

[bondsman]

Pick Laporte for FFS. He sets the tempo from the back. Play fullbacks as fullbacks. That’d be a huge improvement

 

[Indaparkside]

Could be worse could be a dipper

 

[Bazzmand Show]

He can be pissed off all he likes, offers nothing in terms of general play and can only affect a game if the rest of the team have managed to get the ball into the 6 yard box

We will never see Pep or City back at their very best while he’s in the team, Pep just doesn’t have passengers and he’s the biggest passenger I’ve seen for us under Pep

People wondering why we’re not moving the ball quicker, it’s cos a false 9 isnt also there as an option in the build up
That’s when we’re at our best and when Peps teams play best

Get a grip, he's scored 25 league goals already and your saying he isn't any good for us?

 

[Tolmie scores]

After Arsenal losing I cannot understand how we can lose that game. I keep reading there is something wrong at City but what? Pep signed a new contract, we got Haaland, everyone earns loads of money so what is it? Don't tell me there is mutiny because Pep is City's most successful manager & the players love winning right? I can only think maybe some of the players want paying as much as Haaland & it's caused unrest but they need to realise he is a goal machine who is worth it. Anyway that's 4 games lost now and unless we stay unbeaten till the season end that's the title gone. Typical City rears it's ugly head once again. So frustrating.

The biggest fuck up ever Pep listening to the fans , the media, etc ..get a Centre Forward..i have said all along..careful what you wish for..team mutiny because pep succumed..we are NOT a CF team

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

The decision to not play De Bruyne today was shambolic.

 

[Ederson1000YardDrive]

Genuine question, why were Laporte and Dias on the bench, who are much better than Akanji or Ake.

I get the feeling Pep feels like Ake and Akanji deserve to start because they have played well to a point this season. But i think we are now passed that point.

Dias and Laporte are a much stronger pairing and also better on the ball. They need to be back in the team now as we need the core strength of the team back to its best.

 

[CC1]

Yes. We didn't get battered

Don’t think Akanje was at fault???

 

[come-on-barney]

why buy some of the best players in the world then bench them ?

answer is ego .

Absolutely spot on. Anyone who thinks there are not problems with the manager needs to give their head a wobble. Laporte, Dias and De Bruyne on the bench!!!! Playing a youngster who was hung out to dry. Some won’t like it but there are deeper divisions than Cancelo in the squad. Most players out there were not playing for the manager.

 

[jollylescott]

We are so disjointed. I’m no genius but I would revert to a back 4 of Walker, Dias, Laporte and Ake and forget about the inverted fullback.

Come on Pep try something different. Let’s go back to a 433.

 

[bluemoon32]

Grealish the most fouled player in the league.

And that's just in this game.

In fairness, he does look for a lot of those fouls

 

[HelloCity]

It's Pep, and has been for a while.

Sending out teams with no consistent plan, shorn of putting players in their natural positions.

We have one of the greatest strikers in the world and consistently fail to play close enough to him for him to receive the ball in front of goal.

That's on Pep. Kev is slowing down at a rate of knots but there is nobody else who is able to create.

We are struggling for identity and leaders.

Can't fault Grealish and Ake application today.

It's absolutely criminal we have failed to address the lack of creativity and pace in the team.

It isn’t. It’s a common pattern in the PL over the last 10 years. Teams which win the league tend to struggle the year after.

We’ve probably done well to retain the title (x2) during this modern era. Utd the last other team to retain in 2009.

People have short memories but we were even worse 19/20. We were 20 points off Liverpool at this same stage. Exact same issues with everyone off their game and people slagging off Pep.

Here’s the trend:

City 2012 - Miles off an average (by Utd standards) team. Mancini sacked.

United won it 2013 - next year disaster - Moyes sacked.

City 2014 - miles off Chelsea year after.

Chelsea 2015 - next season disaster - Jose sacked

Leicester 2016 - next season disaster - Ranieri sacked

Chelsea 2017 - crap season. conte sacked

City 2019 - Miles off Liverpool the year after. People blame Pep. Say some players are finished.

Liverpool 2020 - got 4th on the last day the year after after being near unbeatable the year before.

We’ve won it back to back (again) and going through the same issues. I reckon the margins are so fine at top level sport if you drop off 5% it’s the difference between winning and losing. We’ve got several players who have dropped off, are injured or Pep is pissed off with them. It all combines to = what we see in the pattern above.

 

[Bluewars]

No sad faces guys....I wanna passion guys.

 

[David Kloppesh]

Any player that just gives up because they want out is a fucking **** & i dont care who they are or who they play for.

find a replay of the mahrez hitting the post and watch bernardo's body language...
I am pretty high though, so don't trust me fully

 

[wattle]

That was nearly 30 years ago. Time to move on.

Fuck off is it. It’s part of our history. It’s not all about winning the league every year like on fifa. We’ll be mint again next season and could still win the league this season. But you crack on and call for pep out

 

[skillman]

Worrying really. Not a shot from Erling fucking Haaland and not even trying to get the ball to him.

Basically having him up front to make up the numbers, not even looking like we’re trying to create chances for him other than aimless crossing.

 

[RayCTID]

mate he’s dropped out best central defenders best midfielder fucked cancelo off.. to me he’s not arsed and trying to get sacked….

We are 5 points off Arsenal

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

The foden business is bizarre, he traveled with the squad but is still unwell ? I don’t call in work sick and sit in the car park for 8 hrs . Clearly he’s stepped out of peps line and serving his penance. Something very odd.
Odd side selection from the off . Odd tatics followed.
Strange times .Anyway as always up the blues.

Bollocks. He's travelled with the team, was up all night with whatever he had, and the club doctor sent him home. Don't need wild speculation when there was enough shite on the pitch to talk about.