Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

[Manchester_lalala]

The pile on here is very sad to see. You're all spoiled.

If it happens then you'll all get what you deserve and I'll enjoy calling you all out for the cunts you are.

Fucking wankers pal. He’s the best ever. On the back of winning four in a row and an ageing squad, we’re fourth, in the FA Cup and in Europe still.

 

[the old abbey]

This is simple!!! Pep was at fault for not addressing an ageing midfield in the summer. Terrible. Love you pep. But your fault. Sort it mate. Your on enough money. Sort it!!!!!

 

[Manchester_lalala]

He won’t unless he changes our style .

What style would you like him to change to?

 

[Richie Rich]

Fucking wankers pal. He’s the best ever. On the back of winning four in a row and an ageing squad, we’re fourth, in the FA Cup and in Europe still.

So you can't criticise him? Or what's your point?

 

[Bluewonder]

Having initially decided to leave at the end of the season, he should have stuck with his original decision.

I'm personally glad the best manager of the century decided to extend his contract, but then again, I'm not a moron.

 

[Paul1970]

What style would you like him to change to?

We need to stop this slow pass build up and hit opponents on the break as we have one hell of an attacking threat but the build up is so slow almost pedestrian at times .

 

[eastmanc]

The members here are Man City fans, not Pep fans.

You need to give your head a wobble mate.

 

[pbueno16]

We need to stop this slow pass build up and hit opponents on the break as we have one hell of an attacking threat but the build up is so slow almost pedestrian at times .

If we do that and we inevitably get caught with too many bombing forward, we get slaughtered

 

[eastmanc]

The pile on here is very sad to see. You're all spoiled.

If it happens then you'll all get what you deserve and I'll enjoy calling you all out for the cunts you are.

This. So entitled and really sad. Blues were never like this in the past. Football is a game of cycles and this happens to every club. Weneed to give this manager our support. He has earned.

 

[Chak19]

If we do that and we inevitably get caught with too many bombing forward, we get slaughtered

We already get caught anyway with the slow rubbish while offering nothing in attack.

 

[citizen_maine]

We need to stop this slow pass build up and hit opponents on the break as we have one hell of an attacking threat but the build up is so slow almost pedestrian at times .

You can't really hit teams on the break when most of them are camped in their own box

 

[Bluewonder]

Thanks Rudyard .

If you can meet triumph with disaster!

 

[pbueno16]

We already get caught anyway with the slow rubbish while offering nothing in attack.

Sums up the dire situation we're in. Don't have the legs to bomb forward and don't have the structure or organization to play our normal build up.

 

[Chak19]

You can't really hit teams on the break when most of them are camped in their own box

That's because we give them all the time in the world to get back and get camped in their own box, look at how many chances we created on the break against Brentford because we played much quicker, should've scored 5 or 6.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Indeed.

In my 54 years not a single manager has come close to Pep and I’d wager none ever will.

What about you?

Stu?

 

[Chak19]

Sums up the dire situation we're in. Don't have the legs to bomb forward and don't have the structure or organization to play our normal build up.

We've got some legs upfront with Haaland, Marmoush, Savio and Foden, there's some serious speed there, just be more direct and use their pace and accept that it can lead to counters sometimes, maybe there is a chance we can outscore teams rather than get thrashed with this slow rubbish.

 

[sh249]

If we do that and we inevitably get caught with too many bombing forward, we get slaughtered

The biggest mistake Pep’s made is deciding, post-treble, to move away from his tried-and-trusted, measured, controlled football to something more expansive/transition-based.
From the start of last season, the set-up has been much more open (at least one wide attacking fullback, sometimes two) and we’ve shifted from using more controlling players at the top end of the pitch (Grealish, Bernardo, Gundogan) to using more high-risk, high-reward types (Doku, Foden, De Bruyne, Alvarez, Savinho etc.).

 

[David White]

So much written here with focus on winning. It’s lovely to win and Pep has given some of us the best football memories, days out and wins we’ll ever see.

I’m more concerned at the minute at how we’ve become completely lost with and without the ball. We have absolutely no plan other than try to keep hold of it and wait for an opportunity to present itself. It doesn’t work any more. It has been sussed out and is very, very easy to play against.

We need to be difficult to beat.

Pep has to shoulder this. They are his tactics that win us games and they are his tactics that are costing us games.

 

[Blue2202]

Pretty clear he’s not going to find any solution for no rodri - as many on here said and hoped he would - given he’s had over 4 months to do so now and we now just look even worse.

Hes been as bad as any individual player this season. Regardless of any personal issues or whatever else he clearly is not operating at the level he’s capable of and should rightly be questioned over the results he is responsible for.

 

[Chak19]

The biggest mistake Pep’s made is deciding, post-treble, to move away from his tried-and-trusted, measured, controlled football to something more expansive/transition-based.
From the start of last season, the set-up has been much more open (at least one wide attacking fullback, sometimes two) and we’ve shifted from using more controlling players at the top end of the pitch (Grealish, Bernardo, Gundogan) to using more high-risk, high-reward types (Doku, Foden, De Bruyne, Alvarez, Savinho etc.).

No his biggest mistake was his insistence on the small squad knowing that this was going to be a long season and how bad we looked without Rodri in the few games he didn't play last season, and we've played many times with Grealish and Silva at the top end of the pitch and they've offered absolutely fuck all while they didn't solve any of our midfield problems, so I disagree.