Pep Guardiola - 2023/24

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As I’ve said in another thread, it feels as if Guardiola is caught between a rock and a hard place when playing better sides. He has attacking players aplenty, like Haaland, Doku, Foden, de Bruyne, and Nunes, but they relish space and running up and down the length of the pitch, whereas he also has Bernardo, Grealish, Alvarez, Kovacic, and Bobb, who are better equipped at keeping the ball short and suffocating teams in the manner with which he is more associated. Rodri can do both, of course, but would probably prefer not having to shuttle up and down the pitch. The remaining games against Villa, Spurs, and Real Madrid will give us a clearer indication as to whether these two styles can be melded. The results in those game might then have an impact on the summer signings and departures, which should also give us an indication of how the squad will develop.
 
I wish Pep would take a page out of Enrique's book and start taking Haaland off, as the former has Mbappe this season. If Arsenal is going to park the bus, bring on a player in Bobb who can operate in tight quarters. It's like he's afraid of hurting Haaland's ego.
 
TrentGrisham said:
I wish Pep would take a page out of Enrique's book and start taking Haaland off, as the former has Mbappe this season. If Arsenal is going to park the bus, bring on a player in Bobb who can operate in tight quarters. It's like he's afraid of hurting Haaland's ego.
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Opponents default position is to build a wall of bodies in the space Haaland would operate in . We react to this with a ponderous plodding up the pitch when we face a side camped out in their box . It isn’t working any fool can see it .
 
Think hes working miracles this season. We lost a major part of the team in gundogan. De bruyne has been out most of the season as has stones. The fact were still in the 3 major comps is a huge accomplishment after last seasons achievements. It would be easy to take a breather. But no.
no one has won 4 prems on the spin and for good reason. Its a gargantuan effort to win it once. Never mind back to back to back.
He can be a little stubborn sometimes, like his persistence with alavarez in midfield, but hes a genius and hes right a hell of a lot more then hes wrong.
 
We've scored 7 goals in our last 6 PL games, 3 of which came against United who take on average 25 shots from any half decent side. Pep needs to find a solution to that even if it means losing a bit of control and possession.
 
super_city_si said:
Think hes working miracles this season. We lost a major part of the team in gundogan. De bruyne has been out most of the season as has stones. The fact were still in the 3 major comps is a huge accomplishment after last seasons achievements. It would be easy to take a breather. But no.
no one has won 4 prems on the spin and for good reason. Its a gargantuan effort to win it once. Never mind back to back to back.
He can be a little stubborn sometimes, like his persistence with alavarez in midfield, but hes a genius and hes right a hell of a lot more then hes wrong.
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Some of the performances are on him this season though. His tactics and team lineups in certain games have been incredibly baffling.

I suppose he was due a bad season.

I think until we play Real Madrid as well, we cannot judge the Champions League. Easiest group we have ever had with teams that were barely conference league level involved, and then we got Copenhagen in the R16.

We would have got a harder run in the Europa League.

This season all stems from the transfer window in my opinion. Pound for pound the worst since 2012 when we got Scott Sinclair etc...

It should have been made a priority by Pep and Txiki to have offered Gundogan the 2 years plus 1 contract he wanted last January.

Anyone watching French football last year would have told you while Doku has the potential, he showed nothing of note to justify he was ready for City. His next move was to a West Ham or Brighton, maybe Spurs.

Lost 30/40 goal contributions a season in Gundogan and Mahrez and replaced them with gambles and potential.

Nunes was the very definition of panic buy and Walker should not have been pandered to like he was.

Kovacic to be fair was a no brainer and I think Gvardiol will be great long-term for us.
 
Gorbachev said:
Some of the performances are on him this season though. His tactics and team lineups in certain games have been incredibly baffling.

I suppose he was due a bad season.

I think until we play Real Madrid as well, we cannot judge the Champions League. Easiest group we have ever had with teams that were barely conference league level involved, and then we got Copenhagen in the R16.

We would have got a harder run in the Europa League.

This season all stems from the transfer window in my opinion. Pound for pound the worst since 2012 when we got Scott Sinclair etc...

It should have been made a priority by Pep and Txiki to have offered Gundogan the 2 years plus 1 contract he wanted last January.

Anyone watching French football last year would have told you while Doku has the potential, he showed nothing of note to justify he was ready for City. His next move was to a West Ham or Brighton, maybe Spurs.

Lost 30/40 goal contributions a season in Gundogan and Mahrez and replaced them with gambles and potential.

Nunes was the very definition of panic buy and Walker should not have been pandered to like he was.

Kovacic to be fair was a no brainer and I think Gvardiol will be great long-term for us.
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"It should have been made a priority by Pep and Txiki to have offered Gundogan the 2 years plus 1 contract he wanted last January."


FFS HE WANTED TO LEAVE.
 
A gem from RedCafe, started off with a valid point and ended up blaming Pep for other managers copying him.

There are many things I hate about his football not just one. The lack of flair players expressing themselves bar Messi. Now, you might get some flair here and there from players like Mahrez etc but they are never the same as they were before because of his system. He killed players like Grealish due to the rigidity of his style and fear of losing the ball. Grealish himself said so. I hate managers like that. That’s why i always rate managers like klopp higher than him.

Boring cnut killed the joy watching football for me. He’s the reason every team tries to play from the back now no matter how pitiful they are and can’t execute it i.e us. He’s the reason for starting this god awful false striker shit. Now there’s a real dearth of even decent strikers. And Now he’s onto his next shenanigans of playing 4 cbs in the backline. Won’t be long before every team having 4 cbs in defense marking the death of marauding fullbacks in football. Visionary my arse, the guy is a football criminal.
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TrentGrisham said:
I wish Pep would take a page out of Enrique's book and start taking Haaland off, as the former has Mbappe this season. If Arsenal is going to park the bus, bring on a player in Bobb who can operate in tight quarters. It's like he's afraid of hurting Haaland's ego.
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Enriques taking Mbappe off probably because he wants the team to start playing without him, i doubt it has anything to do with him playing poorly.

Despite him having poor performances In tight games Haaland is another option defending set pieces.
 
Keeper! said:
"It should have been made a priority by Pep and Txiki to have offered Gundogan the 2 years plus 1 contract he wanted last January."


FFS HE WANTED TO LEAVE.
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Gundgoan in September:

“In the end, it wasn't about a year or two. It didn't hit the runtime. City waited a relatively long time for the talks to really get more intense. If that had happened a little earlier, the starting position would have been different,” Gundogan stated in an interview with German publication Bild.
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