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HolisticJim

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I'm 50 years old.

I remember when Paul Walsh left. He was my hero, and I was sad.

I remember when Gary Flitcroft left for Blackburn, and I was sad.

I remember when Rosler left and how much that hurt. The same for goater.

I remember the gratitude I had when Joe Royal left.

Moving into the recent era, I remember how touched I felt when Mancini put an ad in the MEN.

I remember David Silva.. My all time favorite player.

Gareth Barry...

The anger I felt when Milner left for the dippers.

I remember how grateful I was to Kompany and Aguero... Zabaletta.

I've always felt that Hart wasn't a great exit. He was fantastic for us.

And the players we said good bye to today. My heart hurt.

And I will remember Pep. The greatest manager to ever exist. The love I feel, the gratitude, the warmth in my chest and the lump in my throat.

One of the great things about football is that you always know that new heroes will be made. We are fortunate that we exist beyond a single team and a single player.

Saying goodbye to Pep reminds of that. There is love.... But there is genuine excitement of what the new dawn might bring.

New heroes await us all.

I watched Match of the Day earlier and Alan Shearer said when talking about West Ham that the boardroom eventually filters down to the field and.... We really are the reality of that.

What a comfort net to know that Khaldoon is still here.
I wonder how long we have left with him and, after nearly 20 years I fear his departure more than any manager; including Pep.

He is the legend here.

Whilst Khaldoon is here we are safe. In a few years his we may not be so fortunate but until then I think we are in safe hands.

What a time to be alive.
 
We are in safe hands. I've seen people say stuff like be careful what you wish for when people were saying it might me time for Pep to move on, or we will be like the rags when Baconface left etc and it totally ignores the job the board have done.

I don't think we will be as dominant again without Pep, but I do think we will win the odd trophy, as we did under Mancini and Peligrini.
 
Tico Warrior said:
We are in safe hands. I've seen people say stuff like be careful what you wish for when people were saying it might me time for Pep to move on, or we will be like the rags when Baconface left etc and it totally ignores the job the board have done.

I don't think we will be as dominant again without Pep, but I do think we will win the odd trophy, as we did under Mancini and Peligrini.
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I expect more than the odd trophy. Not at Peps level, but I think we will ct9ninue to win whilst Khaldoon is here.
 
I mean in the next few years, I think Pep is a tough act to follow and the squad needs some work with several players leaving. But long-term, the foundations laid down are great. You can see the effect Pep has had with his coaching tree, and I think one day that a Pep disciple will come and lead the club to another golden era like Pep did with Barca by following Crujff's principles.
 
Aye. Incredible man. but I still feel for us in short term. Khaldoon & co will have a plan in place but Pep was just so influential - too influential imo - that we may struggle short term now. like at rags after fergie the next fucker was always gonna fail. after that we'll start a rebuild.
over long term we should be fine to be able to compete but football is football
 
Khaldoon is brilliant but we have no time to for sentiment to hold us back. We do have to realise and come to terms that the last 10 years have a 99.9% chance of not being repeated.

But that said, the next manager needs backing with high quality recruitment whilst still sticking with what we want from our players in terms of personality etc.

No time for 'project players' that will come good in a few years - we have those players in the academy.

Back the manager 100%, build around the core base of current players whikst getting rid of the deadwood
 
Huge amounts of work to do for the club ensuring the winning machine is maintained now that Pep and Txiki have moved on. The club’s initial plan in the early years of the take over was to go get Pep and the rest of his team that were so successful at Barcelona. Now a new idea and vision needs to be implemented.

We lost a lot of leaders and generals yesterday off on and the pitch with the farewells. Now it’s time for new voices to start demanding the high standards from what we’ve come to and the board expect from the team.
 
HolisticJim said:
I'm 50 years old.

I remember when Paul Walsh left. He was my hero, and I was sad.

I remember when Gary Flitcroft left for Blackburn, and I was sad.

I remember when Rosler left and how much that hurt. The same for goater.

I remember the gratitude I had when Joe Royal left.

Moving into the recent era, I remember how touched I felt when Mancini put an ad in the MEN.

I remember David Silva.. My all time favorite player.

Gareth Barry...

The anger I felt when Milner left for the dippers.

I remember how grateful I was to Kompany and Aguero... Zabaletta.

I've always felt that Hart wasn't a great exit. He was fantastic for us.

And the players we said good bye to today. My heart hurt.

And I will remember Pep. The greatest manager to ever exist. The love I feel, the gratitude, the warmth in my chest and the lump in my throat.

One of the great things about football is that you always know that new heroes will be made. We are fortunate that we exist beyond a single team and a single player.

Saying goodbye to Pep reminds of that. There is love.... But there is genuine excitement of what the new dawn might bring.

New heroes await us all.

I watched Match of the Day earlier and Alan Shearer said when talking about West Ham that the boardroom eventually filters down to the field and.... We really are the reality of that.

What a comfort net to know that Khaldoon is still here.
I wonder how long we have left with him and, after nearly 20 years I fear his departure more than any manager; including Pep.

He is the legend here.

Whilst Khaldoon is here we are safe. In a few years his we may not be so fortunate but until then I think we are in safe hands.

What a time to be alive.
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But if Koolhand Khaldoon turned up at yer front door would you invite him in and serve him a chip muffin.
 
Dunne's own goal said:
Aye. Incredible man. but I still feel for us in short term. Khaldoon & co will have a plan in place but Pep was just so influential - too influential imo - that we may struggle short term now. like at rags after fergie the next fucker was always gonna fail. after that we'll start a rebuild.
over long term we should be fine to be able to compete but football is football
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The difference is the rags have only won the league with Ferguson. You have to go back to 1967, when they won it with a different manager. We have had 3 different league winning managers in the space of 7 years.
When you look at the achievements at the swamp, it basically all comes down to one man.
 
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The difference is the rags have only won the league with Ferguson. You have to go back to 1968, when they won it with a different manager. We have had 3 different league winning managers in the space of 7 years.
When you look at the achievements at the swamp, it basically all comes down to one man.
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Take away Ferguson ,Busby and the sad events of 58 they would get the same exposure of every other football club.
 
BlueMoonz1977 said:
No time for 'project players' that will come good in a few years - we have those players in the academy.

Back the manager 100%, build around the core base of current players whikst getting rid of the deadwood
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How many of these " project players" are physically at the club.
It keeps getting thrown in to conversations.
Up till recently, we could bring in "foreign" players at a young age and integrate them into our academy.
No longer possible before the age of 18
If its the likes of Reis, Bah, Echeverri, Nypan are the types of player you are talking about, they are not affecting our squad but the best of those may be useful additions. They are competing with the likes of Mubama, McAidoo and Mukasa, all whom we bought.
Some we will keep, some we will sell at a profit, some at a loss.
 
Khaldoon has been fantastic for City. Now that Pep has gone, I do worry about the day when Khaldoon moves on. Khaldoon sets the tone at City and he has made everything possible at City. He rarely takes the limelight, but he is so important to the club. He will be a very difficult person to replace when the time comes.
 
Bez said:
Khaldoon has been fantastic for City. Now that Pep has gone, I do worry about the day when Khaldoon moves on. Khaldoon sets the tone at City and he has made everything possible at City. He rarely takes the limelight, but he is so important to the club. He will be a very difficult person to replace when the time comes.
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I doubt Khaldoon is going anywhere while Mansour owns the club.
 
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