Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

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“We created a lot but we didn’t score and that’s why we could not win.”
Pep Guardiola

Yeah Akanji had some fantastic crosses for Erling and Omar.
 
What gameplan does Pep have for us next season? We can’t continue this possession game next season..
 
youngbob said:
Plays Ederson away at Bournemouth in the quarters. Drops him for the semi-final and the final.

Finally gets Nunes into good form, drops him for the FA Cup final.

Finally gets Gundogan into decent form, drops him for the final as well.

Finally works out a system that works with this set of players, completely changes it.

Decides we won't be needing De Bruyne in four weeks, but starts him in the final.

Spends £30m on Khusanov, plays him week in week out, suddenly drops him and can't get back in.

Finally gets a settled back four of Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, and O'Reilly, changes it for the final.

Finds out Kovacic is injured before the final and reacts by playing no defensive midfielders at all.

Starts Rico Lewis in the semi-final, Lewis scores, and Pep responds by cutting him out altogether.

Spends £60m on Marmoush, a centre-forward, and plays him everywhere except centre-forward.

Realises Doku is best as a late impact sub - puts him on at half-time and starts him in the next two games.

Freezes Grealish out but suddenly decides to play him in the semi-final, then drops him again for the final.

Spends £60m on a new CM, calls him a 'mini Rodri', and then never plays him - even when other DMs are injured.

Brings in Echeverri, leaves him out of every squad since his signing, suddenly chucks him on to rescue a cup final.


He's lost his massive mind.
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He has. Its all over the shop

His biggest fuck up was insisting that the squad didnt need improving last summer
 
I would hate for us to spend another 300 million on players before getting a clarity on Pep.
Let’s not do the rags thing again and again.
Investing without sorting out the future of the manager. Buying mediocre players.

170 million is already spend. It would be unwise for us to spend another 300 before looking into the management situation.

We bought KDB a year before Pep arrived. We bought Bsilva from Monaco in the first couple days of transfer window. We used to be 5 steps ahead of all. Now we are just lazy!
 
The man is out of control not sure if it's his emotions due to his private life but this can't go on, the club comes first.

Some serious questions need to be put to the manager by the execs.
 
Well, you can tell we didn't win.

I want Pep to stay. He has brought unparalleled success and will have had one relatively poor season in a decade of trophy-laden performances.

All of the world's best teams play a game that seeks to dominate the ball. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that principle and the best teams in the future will adopt the same strategy. At present, we are often dominating the ball against teams who don't want it. They run away from it to get back into position in two blocks of five. It is hard to score against because we are lacking that small edge of creativity in the central area. The spare personnel often created by our patience are centre-backs on the edge of the area who do not have the technical skill to find gaps in walled defences.

We have been loyal to players who can no longer deliver what they could so we will make some personnel changes over the summer, in addition to the return of key players from injury. Everyone knows this to be true (as the end of KDB demonstrates) yet the way this forum responds to any loss, or even draw, is staggering, and I thank goodness that the people running the club are more phlegmatic, taking a much longer-term view rather than the knee-jerk-nonsense here that turns a genius in to a goon almost overnight. If we make a change to the management of the team, it will have been planned long ago and Pep will be completely aware of it. Get a grip.
 
He was very pleased we controlled the game, let’s hope for more of the same in the next two games, can’t wait!
 
Realistically there’s no one out there to take over from him. It’ll be like United trying to replace Ferguson. Who’d want the job after Pep being so successful
 
Mcfc1.9.8.0 said:
Realistically there’s no one out there to take over from him. It’ll be like United trying to replace Ferguson. Who’d want the job after Pep being so successful
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They will have a monumental task but they will also have an excellent squad, huge potential within the academy, and an top-tier structure and facilities. Most ambitious managers would want it, but I think it is more likely that we go for someone 'from within' - someone within the club, within the CFG or who was in it, or a former player.
 
Tb1981 said:
Possession isn’t the problem
Creating fuck all and shit finishing is the issue
Once we have players who can execute the game plan things will change next year
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We created enough yesterday to win the game, for sure.
A small change to some key personnel will be the key.
Having Rodri as the spare man on the edge of the box rather than Akanji or Dias will be rather different.
 
oldius said:
They will have a monumental task but they will also have an excellent squad, huge potential within the academy, and a top-tier structure and facilities. Most ambitious managers would want it, but I think it is more likely that we go for someone 'from within' - someone within the club, within the CFG or who was in it, or a former player.
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Then we will fail as we are talking about Man City one of the biggest clubs in the world being coached by a rookie . We need a top manager and with the World Cup coming up we will prob wait .
 
It's genuinely insane how many are turning on him. I can't believe it.

It's been a disappointing season, but the hysteria about his tactics/football style/whatever you want to call it is so over the top it's comical. We've had unparalleled success for a decade now. We've just won 4 league titles on the trot. 20 trophies in 10 years, smashing just about every record in the book.

If we were to fire him, every club in the world would be calling his agent within the hour.
 
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