Juventus (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

[Bluearmy]

Just after watching Alvarez score a screamer.
To make matters worse, Ferran Torres scored for Barcelona.

Exactly. We’ve got so much right in the last decade but have taken liberties in the last few transfer windows and its caught up with us big time….

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Wonder if Khaldoon has or will have a word with the squad?

 

[SamBlue]

Gvardiol was a beast of a centre half at Leipzig, Pep has molded him into Mavis Riley

Ever since Messi turned him inside out three times in two seconds in Qatar, him and defending went separate ways.

 

[Lavinda Past]

We still have a chance in winning the League.

Bloody hell... We haven't got the 36 points we'll need to avoid relegation yet Ray...

;-)

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

Maybe it’s time for a different approach. Call out some of them

The press would have a field day with that and every Press Conference afterwards would be along the lines of "So Ilkay, do you agree with Pep that Lewis isn't running enough - why do you think he's not trying as hard as he did? So Erling, you're slipping down the goal scoring charts and Pep says X do you want to leave?" etc etc

 

[Bluearmy]

...and yet when he was here there were people who hated him.

They’re looking pretty stupid now…. Ffs

 

[argyle]

We've always had a smallish squad. It was a concern but Pep made a fool of me for years. But we look old and leggy all of a sudden. Ederson, Walker, Stones, Gundo, Grealish, Nunes, Savinho and i hate to say it but KDB also at this stage, all probably lucky to be here at this point. We've had a couple of poor transfer windows, right at the point some players have got old/become injury prone/lost form/not good enough.

Yes, some look like a season too far for them. The injuries have highlighted the downsides to a small squad too.

Not getting the right understudy for Rodri has been the killer for this team.

Hopefully the club rectifies that in January.

 

[dom]

It’s not Pep. It’s on the players. Most are too old, or too slow, or injured.

We need to grow some massive fucking bollocks and spend hundreds of millions on fast, direct, powerful players already doing well at other clubs.

No fucking about with net spend shit, we’re not a fucking bank. No giving a shit what any of the cartel think. Fuck them. Fuck 115.

The board says we’re innocent, so put their money where their mouth is. Back Pep in January and again in summer. No excuses.

But all the above suggests that we have not been future planning

 

[Xhavenjoe]

I’ll have whatever drugs your taking

There's going to be some very good teams in the 9 to 24 play off section
Juve Madrid PSG all look like they won't make the top 8. The only positive for us is that we may have a bigger fitter squad come February.

 

[JewelZee]

But you should expect that it could happen and be prepared, but at all costs do not, I repeat do not play rico and gundo together FFS

Don't play them together or separately. Don't play them at all.

 

[bondsman]

Not on drugs at all. We have been in this type of scrape before.

Not with a squad like this. You don’t win leagues without being able to defend. You are on here everyday saying we won’t sign anyone but think the squad as is can win the league from here? No chance. You’ll be saying resign Otamendi again next

 

[ancoats]

This year you’re probably right. What im saying is we can resuscitate quickly.

once you are brain-dead the best thing is to turn off the life support machine

 

[Jonas.shaffer]

I'm just not sure what more discussion there is you want to have about Pep.

The fact that no one knows what they're doing out there without the ball, and any competent side can play through us and get at our defense with one or two passes. That's on him and the tactics, not the quality of our players. Or that he continues to play Walker when he hasn't performed well in two years. Still playing Gundo as a DCM. Not making subs until the match is over. Refusing to ever take Haaland out/not giving McAtee an opportunity. Okaying the selling of better players to bring in worse quality.

Should I go on?

 

[pudge]

You were flapping during all of the last 4 years.

You've been prediciting City's demise for years. This must be Christmas come early for you.

Uh huh, of course

 

[Twisted-wheel]

Fly on the dressing room wall
I would love to know what is being said right now by Pep

Not a single minute Pep is settling for this crap, He's a winner and would never in a million years be just settling for this shit, Even an injury-hit squad and players lacking form will Pep be happy to wash over this, Pep is a master and a winner, no manger lets players form slip to this sort of levels and still be playing every week.

Unless there is a plan in place to just hang in until the transfer window and then bring in players then I don't understand how Pep can let this happen or be still here to the end

There must be plans in place for new players in jan and let's see how much damage we are in and can we still turn it around,

What is it 3 weeks and 4 premier league games? worse case is we could be 8th and just above united
I think we could take that right now if new players are coming in in jan

But he is settling for it as he is not adjusting to opposition or our current crap sorry crop of players, pep is a legend but just like players he has to harbour criticism as well, he does no possess a plan and making changes at the 78 minute is mind boggling

 

[Lavinda Past]

Its been two bad months. The past, as you call it was last year and three before that. Not twenty years ago.

The injuries have highlighted the downsides of a small squad.

And whose fault is that? The fans?

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Wonder if Khaldoon has or will have a word with the squad?

The firing squad?

 

[RayCTID]

We have managed to ruin one of the most rated young talents in the world in Gvardiol who looks shot to pieces

He is a more likeable version of Cancelo. Defensively he was never brilliant but he is definitely an attacking force.

 

[homerdog]

Just saw the highlights (if you can call them that), with Walker jogging back for the second goal - WTAF?

 

[Phoenix900000]

It is what it is