Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

[kashmir]

Teams have sussed Peps way of playing all they have to do is sit back and hit us fast on the attack, needs a new plan , like what been said on numerous posts. Passes don’t win games goal do

 

[Great Kompany]

I also second with a few posters here about Pep needing a break because of this personal life - Man the guy is losing his marriage of several decades.
These kind of stuff break a person.

How is a person with that much grief and stress work in these high pressure situations when every other person is rooting for your failure.
Just remove the bandage and let him go out in peace.

 

[Quilted]

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.

Knew it.

 

[Dax777]

Teams have sussed Peps way of playing all they have to do is sit back and hit us fast on the attack, needs a new plan , like what been said on numerous posts. Passes don’t win games goal do

They really don't sit back. That's a misnomer. We move sooo slowly that it would have been professional malpractice for the opposition not to get back.


Palace didn't park the bus. We drove a slow moving road cleaning truck.

 

[vicblueman]

He needs to take a break from football & have time to heal from marriage breakdown .

 

[Blue2202]

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.

Ego, Ego, Ego. He can't resist having people talk about the changes he makes before the game. And he'd have lapped up the praise for doing so had we won. Ego before anything else for him.

Instead, its yet another team selection in a major game which has left us in the lurch and needing 4 very unlikely looking points in our last two games to save a catastrophic season. The more I put it all into context the more I think he simply has to go.

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

Ego, Ego, Ego. He can't resist having people talk about the changes he makes before the game. And he'd have lapped up the praise for doing so had we won. Ego before anything else for him.

Instead, its yet another team selection in a major game which has left us in the lurch and needing 4 very unlikely looking points in our last two games to save a catastrophic season. The more I put it all into context the more I think he simply has to go.

I just don’t think he knows what he’s fucking doing right now. It doesn’t help that in public he has always said how fantastic the opposition is - does he do this in private also? He said Saints were a very good team and Alsace fantastic - well they’re fucking not

 

[Brewster's millions]

People keep missing the looking burnt out part. He looks absolutely miserable, not like someone itching for the opportunity to rebuild. He won’t get sacked and I don’t want him to be, but do we actually think he still has the fight in him to do another overhaul? He’s earned the right to do what he wants without the club pressuring him, but there’s a non-zero chance he decides it’s best for him to walk.

He deserves all the platitudes when he leaves, but he hasn’t earned the right to decide whether he stays or not, because no one does.

It’s up to the hierarchy to decide whether he has the energy and focus to lead what has now turned into a complete overhaul of the squad and indeed its playing style. They see Pep everyday, they see how the players respond to him and they can judge whether the serious problems that have developed this season are being addressed. These people get paid millions to make decisions and they need to do their job.

 

[WallyA]

They really don't sit back. That's a misnomer. We move sooo slowly that it would have been professional malpractice for the opposition not to get back.


Palace didn't park the bus. We drove a slow moving road cleaning truck.

The solution of the opposition is to just mid block us and its super effective.

In our 343, the 7 midfielders/forwards are easily man marked, since they dont care about pressing the CBs.

In our disaster run where we played with 3 atb, we were awful.

Pep solved this by going back to 2 at the back and having an extra body higher up so we can play through a mid block better.

Then Haaland comes back and he abandons this all of a sudden, mad decision by him.

We literally thrashed Palace when we made this change the last time we played them after suffering early on.

His decisions are mind boggling.

 

[pbueno16]

He deserves all the platitudes when he leaves, but he hasn’t earned the right to decide whether he stays or not, because no one does.

It’s up to the hierarchy to decide whether he has the energy and focus to lead what has now turned into a complete overhaul of the squad and indeed its playing style. They see Pep everyday, they see how the players respond to him and they can judge whether the serious problems that have developed this season are being addressed. These people get paid millions to make decisions and they need to do their job.

Certainly a fair point. I’m speaking on it at this moment in time before we play Bournemouth and Fulham and while our place in the table for CL qualification is still up in the air. If we don’t get CL, then the club’s leadership should get heavily involved to address it since consistently being in it and challenging for it is the club’s ambition.

 

[Pell]

His argument with Henderson at the end was not a good look for him.

 

[Don Karleone]

If he doesn't change, he has to go. I get bored watching us.

 

[MCFC1993]

Not even going to bother arguing with those saying he's done.

The players take the blame for me and I think that'll be proven right next season.

He'll be brutal this summer, can see him telling a lot of players to find a new home.

4 great seasons in the last 5 years, 6 great seasons in 8 years, he'll bring us back to the promised land.

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

If he doesn't change, he has to go. I get bored watching us.

Whats peoples obsession with keeping him. Any half decent manager can have us playing like this fighting for CL

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

Not even going to bother arguing with those saying he's done.

The players take the blame for me and I think that'll be proven right next season.

He'll be brutal this summer, can see him telling a lot of players to find a new home.

4 great seasons in the last 5 years, 6 great seasons in 8 years, he'll bring us back to the promised land.

What makes you so confident? So this season hes just decided and agreed with board to just have a holiday and fuck around? And next season he will return to our standards?

 

[Don Karleone]

Whats peoples obsession with keeping him. Any half decent manager can have us playing like this fighting for CL

I don't know. Players get shit when they don't perform; the same should happen to management. I really hope that I'm wrong, but he's just too stubborn.

 

[MCFC1993]

What makes you so confident? So this season hes just decided and agreed with board to just have a holiday and fuck around? And next season he will return to our standards?

Because we were even worse in 2016/17 and he got a team together to win 100 points the next season.

The fall off from some of the players was absolutely unforeseen, key players in the team just not bothering to show up all season. Players we were absolutely relying on.

We were good today, previous City teams win that game with the chances we had.

I see a brutal summer coming up from Pep and Viana, lots of ins and lots of outs.

 

[pbueno16]

Not even going to bother arguing with those saying he's done.

The players take the blame for me and I think that'll be proven right next season.

He'll be brutal this summer, can see him telling a lot of players to find a new home.

4 great seasons in the last 5 years, 6 great seasons in 8 years, he'll bring us back to the promised land.

I’m sorry but putting it all on the players is just plain misallocation of blame. His lineups and subs make no sense, his fitness management left us with a CB injury crisis in the fall-winter and he insists on forcing out of form or old players into the lineup instead of using all the players available. How did it take until February/March for O’Reilly to break onto the team? How is Echeverri making his debut in an FFA Cup final? Why is a lineup we’ve been getting results with for the past month getting scrapped all of a sudden with a trophy on the line?

 

[oldius]

I look forward to next season with, hopefully, Pep as the manager.
We have had an incredible run, and one relatively poor season does not mar that for me.
We have had a year where we made the mistake of trying again with a group of players that have given their all, and some of them can no longer do what they could. You can blame Pep's loyalty and his stubbornness if you wish, but that is also what has brought us success that has never been seen before in the English game.

We have been riddled with injuries and illness, and face, game after game, opponents determined to kill it, pack their box, and look for one opportunity. Anti-football is not for me, and I give that strategy no credit whatsoever, hoping that the refreshing of the squad gives us back the ability to unlock those sides.
Rodri back, Bobb back, Echeverri emerging, Reis and Khusanov, Lewis and O'Reilly, Marmoush and a new (hopefully) number 10 give us lots to look forward to.

 

[kippaxchris]

Because we were even worse in 2016/17 and he got a team together to win 100 points the next season.

The fall off from some of the players was absolutely unforeseen, key players in the team just not bothering to show up all season. Players we were absolutely relying on.

We were good today, previous City teams win that game with the chances we had.

I see a brutal summer coming up from Pep and Viana, lots of ins and lots of outs.

The difference being he was new to the league back then & the league was new to his style of football, he has now been figured out & can't seem to figure out a way to combat being figured out.