Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

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DATOIA said:
This season has all the vibes of 2019/2020 season...

Sane and Laporte get injured, Pep plays that stupid kid Garcia..
Sterling is our main guy. (I am so happy his career ended like it was supposed to)
Mendy plays a lot of games.. (puke)
David Silva is old, but Pep still pushes him in starting lineups.
All the players seem to be out of form and we experiment all the time.
etc. etc.
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This is a lot lot worse than 2019
 
Pep knew this was coming. He was expecting it last season but its here now. I'm really surprised he didnt/hasnt formulated a plan to play to when it happens. We clearly dont have the energy to play the same way
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
This is a lot lot worse than 2019
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We had a midfield then. We don't have one now and Pep sides are based on a strong midfield.

Take Iniesta, Xavi, Busquets.. they were tanks.. small guys couldn't get the ball off them.

Take Gundo, Kevin, Rodri, Stones, Akanji.. they were tanks.. small guys couldn't get the ball off them in their prime.

We need big and strong players in the middle!
 
Main problem is that our back five is constantly injured and there is no stability except Rico, which itself is another problem :D

Ake - plays one game, then is injured for 2 months. I think it's enough, it's not our problem that he spends more time in hospital, rather than on football pitch
Johnie - same, but I love Johny more and he has done more for this club.
Ruben - his injury was the main reason our crisis started
Akanji - also has a lot of injuries this season, wtf
Walker - I guess he also had an injury and didn't have a preseason.
Kovacic - same
Rodri - tragedy of our lives..

so 6 players and all of them have injury issues.

We need some new blood here, players that play 30-33 games per season and are available.

Pep loves smaller squad and these injury prone players make our squad even smaller, which means that players like Rico and Pussy and other ones get unthinkable minutes. Rico for example our n2 player in terms of played minutes and that's the big problem, he should be like 15 or 16 or something like that at max.

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Ash Blue said:
Until the outcome of the hearing making any significant signings feels remote . Players and agents would want certainty and unless the club has an inkling of the bulk of the charges being quashed then feels like we run with the squad until the summer.
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January will be interesting, no signings would indicate bad news, a big signing and I'd be confident that we're confident re the 115
 
Watched the game again and I start to question if Pep has lost (part of) the dressing room.

Some players did not look like believing the game plan themselves.

Some player's body languages particularly in the 2nd half were very ... off... including our star players like Halaand and KDB.

KDB and (even) Bernado stopped tracking back and did not show remot interest to do it around 70min. We were still only 1 down.

Pressing was off except in part of first half.

Bernado asked Lewis to listen to instructions as early as first minutes of 1st half. Lewis looked not interested. Bernado seemed not happy.

Grealish and Doku were visually upset about Josko's passing at times when they got ignored.

Pep shouted to the bench and asked Savio on when Doku lost his ball seconds before Juve scored their 2nd goal.

Gundo looked like he wanted to kill Walker.

KDB was ...just walking on the pitch after 60min.


I mean... we fans were disappointed when we saw the lineup with certain players. Would not the dressing room feel the same?
 
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Pep has just been asked if a replacement for Rodri is the priority in January and he replied: “When I have Kova and Gundo I don’t need a replacement in that position.”

I hope he’s just being coy so we don’t appear desperate in January.
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
Pep has just been asked if a replacement for Rodri is the priority in January and he replied: “When I have Kova and Gundo I don’t need a replacement in that position.”

I hope he’s just being coy so we don’t appear desperate in January.
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He better be being coy, otherwise he is kidding himself, we need to buy in Jan, he knows it, we all know it, stubbourness at it's finest, needs to realise this, it's ok saying wants players back, fucking season is running away from us, a few new faces will help a lot, but as per he defends his players to the hilt........on camera
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
Pep has just been asked if a replacement for Rodri is the priority in January and he replied: “When I have Kova and Gundo I don’t need a replacement in that position.”

I hope he’s just being coy so we don’t appear desperate in January.
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I don't think that's exactly what he's saying, I think he's saying that if he had Rodri, Kovacic, and Gundogan all fit and available then the team would be playing better and he wouldn't need to go into the transfer window.

But because he can't trust Kova and Gundo to stay fit now Rodri's injured, he needs (as he's said) '25 or 30 players' in the squad instead, especially with the Club World Cup being expanded over the summer period.
 
youngbob said:
I don't think that's exactly what he's saying, I think he's saying that if he had Rodri, Kovacic, and Gundogan all fit and available then the team would be playing better and he wouldn't need to go into the transfer window.

But because he can't trust Kova and Gundo to stay fit now Rodri's injured, he needs (as he's said) '25 or 30 players' in the squad instead, especially with the Club World Cup being expanded over the summer period.
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So we have to buy in Jan
 
youngbob said:
I don't think that's exactly what he's saying, I think he's saying that if he had Rodri, Kovacic, and Gundogan all fit and available then the team would be playing better and he wouldn't need to go into the transfer window.

But because he can't trust Kova and Gundo to stay fit now Rodri's injured, he needs (as he's said) '25 or 30 players' in the squad instead, especially with the Club World Cup being expanded over the summer period.
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Yeah I was definitely encouraged by the 25-30 players comment.

He said he’s reflected on squad size in light of the injuries. Sounds like we’ll spend in January if the right deal comes along and then have a full on splurge in the summer.
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
Yeah I was definitely encouraged by the 25-30 players comment.

He said he’s reflected on squad size in light of the injuries. Sounds like we’ll spend in January if the right deal comes along and then have a full on splurge in the summer.
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He'll still only pick from 16. lol
 
applejuice said:
Watched the game again and I start to question if Pep has lost (part of) the dressing room.

Some players did not look like believing the game plan themselves.

Some player's body languages particularly in the 2nd half were very ... off... including our star players like Halaand and KDB.

KDB and (even) Bernado stopped tracking back and did not show remot interest to do it around 70min. We were still only 1 down.

Pressing was off except in part of first half.

Bernado asked Lewis to listen to instructions as early as first minutes of 1st half. Lewis looked not interested. Bernado seemed not happy.

Grealish and Doku were visually upset about Josko's passing at times when they got ignored.

Pep shouted to the bench and asked Savio on when Doku lost his ball seconds before Juve scored their 2nd goal.

Gundo looked like he wanted to kill Walker.

KDB was ...just walking on the pitch after 60min.


I mean... we fans were disappointed when we saw the lineup with certain players. Would not the dressing room feel the same?
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Bollocks from you again
 
applejuice said:
Watched the game again and I start to question if Pep has lost (part of) the dressing room.

Some players did not look like believing the game plan themselves.

Some player's body languages particularly in the 2nd half were very ... off... including our star players like Halaand and KDB.

KDB and (even) Bernado stopped tracking back and did not show remot interest to do it around 70min. We were still only 1 down.

Pressing was off except in part of first half.

Bernado asked Lewis to listen to instructions as early as first minutes of 1st half. Lewis looked not interested. Bernado seemed not happy.

Grealish and Doku were visually upset about Josko's passing at times when they got ignored.

Pep shouted to the bench and asked Savio on when Doku lost his ball seconds before Juve scored their 2nd goal.

Gundo looked like he wanted to kill Walker.

KDB was ...just walking on the pitch after 60min.


I mean... we fans were disappointed when we saw the lineup with certain players. Would not the dressing room feel the same?
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Sure it’s easy to pick holes after watching the game back again. Pep was doing what he thought best in game.

I have seen him react the exact same way when winning games easily.

I would suggest you stop trying to be a football sleuth, creating false narrative that bear no resemblance to real life.

Injures
Small squad
Bad recruitment
Aging superstars who can’t play 90 min press

It will all settle down and the squad will be better for it next season.

Accept it or make up fake narrative.
 
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