Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

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IMO winning the league last season is at the very pinnacle of Pep's greatest achievements.

I think in the natural scheme of things it's Arsenal's title: Arsenal had a young,hungry physical side emerge that had run the course the season before; we were facing an inevitable drop off after winning the treble; Arsenal took 4 points off us: Arsenal only conceded 29 goals in the PL; we had to adapt to 2 months without Haaland before reintegrating him back into the team; we go on to win the last 9 games to win the league.

It illustrates why 4 in a row has never occurred before in English football because young, motivated, talented challengers emerge in the highest profile league of the most popular sport on the planet and the existing champions just can't raise themselves to scale the mountain one more time.

That is until Pep wrung every last drop from the squad to win the title, creating history and defying the natural order of things and for me with any other manager on the planet in charge of us, Arsenal win that league.

I thus find it absolutely staggering how quickly so many have turned on this thread, in a season where the squad's been running on empty and faced an horrific injury crisis.
 
1) If you have an injury crisis you have a look what players are available and find the best system with that team to win or draw. It's not excusable to play on like before. And certainly not by the best manager in the world.

We have been playing the fuckin high line week in week out conceding goal after goal all the same same - til Pep finally changed that.

2) Playing against deep sitting teams with 10 around their box in perfect stability obviously means to get them into movement:

I have zero idea why we don't create chaos in their box, why we don't shoot from the box edge more to force lucky deflections (low shots, NOT high! ffs),

and why we instead produce HIGH crosses galore when we play vs teams with an average height of 7 feet and rarely get any touch at all...

Pep often reacts much too late when he must. Must.
And his coaching team doesn't help one bit.
All that is no news. Many on here do see that. Why we even have to debate about that is beyond me.
 
Pep better wear a suit today. It really does my head in that he turns up for the FA Cup final at Wembley in a hoody and turns out in a suit for the CL.
 
would be awful for him to be in 3x FA finals in a row and lose two vs rags and Palace, both significantly behind us in league at the time of final.

come on Pep, get it right and get this over the line today. beat them 4-1 and then you can praise Palace and Glasner all you want after the game of how great they are etc. :)
 
Craig said:
Probably yes. I think the standard of top sides in general is going through a bit of lull. Certainly less great players about at the moment than say 10/15 years ago. Suppose it goes through cycles.
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I've been thinking about this myself. Who's the last player who was already great 18-21 but then kept getting better after that?

Not convinced we haven't already seen the best of Mbappe, Haaland, Vinicius, Pedri and sadly maybe even Phil
 
Today Pep either walks out of Wembley as a creative genius or the naivest fool in North-West London.

The decision to play a midfield solely consisting of Attacking Midfielders against Premier League opposition in a Cup Final treads a thin line from the intention of having bollocks all the way to an unintended outcome of gifting a golden ticket for Glasner's men to run through your midfield.
 
Stumbling around in the dark this season in terms of tactics

Hopefully me posting something critical here during the break makes us win
 
youngbob said:
I don't know why, but I've started thinking that if we secure top five and win the FA Cup, Pep should bow out on that and leave with his head held high.

Not in an angry "Pep Out" kind of way. I actually think if we kept him for the final two years of contract he'd win us the Premier League one more time.

But the entire club is entering a new era with Txiki going and De Bruyne is joining him. Maybe this is the right time to flood the club with new ideas and fresh faces.

Let Pep sort out issues in his personal life, take the massive payout and spend a year out of the game, picking the best offer on his desk at the point of his return.

Let's get Inzaghi on the phone from Inter and see if he fancies giving England a go and turning us into a counter-attacking side with Marmoush and Haaland leading the line.

Like how Wenger should have left Arsenal in 2014 but didn't, I don't want us hanging on and on and on, never knowing when Pep's actually going to go until it's too late.

Win the FA Cup and leave with yet another piece of silverware. Put a lovely cap on his time here by winning the third FA Cup of his tenure with his old guard and send him off with a smile.
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Result doesn't matter. Look at the performance. Time to go.
 
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Has anyone told Pep that you can use subs when the team aren’t doing that great…..
 
I’d shake his hand at the end of the season and say thanks for everything but we need to freshen things up.

The reason he does what he wants is because he knows he’s untouchable, any other club and they’d part ways and thank him for his contributions
 
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