Pep Guardiola - 2025/26

dragonman98 said:
Whether Pep fucked the line up tonight or not, the harsh reality is, with the brutal schedule soon coming in, eventually the bench players will have to play. He gave this match a chance to 10 out of 11 players to prove that they can be trusted. And none of them made a point.
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Agreed but there’s a way of doing it. You don’t do it all at once, especially in what was an important game. All tonight has done, is erode any trust in those players, so now the others who will need a rest, probably won’t get it.
 
OrigamiNinja said:
Pep says he wasn’t expecting that performance from the starters. It’s odd, because that performance was exactly what I was expecting, because I’ve seen it countless times before in the Carabao Cup. Why is it, that the fans know what’s coming and the greatest manager in history doesn’t? It was a crazy selection and everyone bar Pep knew it.
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Suppose, what do you expect him to say?
His post match interviews generally are appalling
 
dragonman98 said:
Thing is, the entire starting lineup just went to play for the national team, some of them even had to play 2 matches, maybe they are all exhausted. Not to mention an away trip to Newcastle.
The only exception is Nico G, since he wasn't called up, so he played tonight.
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Poor little pampered lambs.
If there was no International Break, they probably would have played 3 games for City rather than 2 Internationals.
They need to knuckle down and do their job which they get paid a fortune for
 
OK shall we put things into perspective.
In the 9 years since Pep has been at our club I have never run him down even though I`ve never agreed with his selection.
However prior to tonights game I made the comment to a very good mate of mine that I thought Peps team selection was an arrogant choice !!
10 fucking changes ?? !!!
Pep you were at fault by a country mile and I can`t even blame the 11 players you chose as it was your selection and stupidity if you thought that team could get a result.
Tonight was a great chance to virtually get into a position of qualifying but your sheer bloody mindedness and arrogance puts us at risk.
You have been warned, so sort it out for the next difficult CL game.
 
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What would have been the problem with

vs Leverkusen
Donnarumma
Khusanov Stones Dias (sub off) Ait-Nouri
Gonzalez (sub off)
Cherki Reijnders (sub off)
Doku (sub off) Haaland (sub off) Marmoush
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and vs Leeds
Donnarumma
Nunes Dias Gvardiol O'Reilly
Gonzalez Bernardo
Foden Reijnders Savinho
Haaland
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If he absolutely had to play fucking Savinho in one of these games.

The mind boggles.
 
Had an absolute shocker with that line-up.

The players he picked also let him down because there’s no way they are that bad.

He’ll have learnt a lot about them tonight, so long term, maybe not a bad thing. Might speed up and get a more active few transfer windows coming up in case anyone at the club thought we might not need them.
 
youngbob said:
What would have been the problem with

vs Leverkusen


and vs Leeds


If he absolutely had to play fucking Savinho in one of these games.

The mind boggles.
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Those are good lineups in context.

I'd have said he's all in on the league after smelling blood in the water being as close as we were to Arsenal in the table, but the lineup at Newcastle also was a gamble.
 
Disappointed when I saw the line up . Almost knew what he would do and he has to shoulder the blame for that showing .

I knew we were getting beaten . Leverkeusen would’ve been all over that

Sticking with Savinho for the full 90 was a pisstake .
 
oakiecokie said:
OK shall we put things into perspective.
In the 9 years since Pep has been at our club have I never run him down even though I`ve never agreed with his election.
However prior to tonights game I made the comment to a very good mate of mine that I thought Peps team selection was an arrogant choice !!
10 fucking changes ?? !!!
Pep you were at fault by a country mile and I can`t even blame the 11 players you chose as it was your selection and stupidity if you thought that team could get a result.
Tonight was a great chance to virtually get into a position of qualifying but your sheer bloody mindedness and arrogance puts us at risk.
You have been warned, so sort it out for the next difficult CL game.
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I have to hope that he thinks - well I gave these players who wanted more time a chance and they fucked it up. I will not criticise him if he now keeps some of those fringe players out of the picture moving forward. If he keeps picking some of them it will tell me his time here is done - If however, he goes ballistic and gets tough I will think yeah he's building again.
 
Blue-Ghana said:
He has been given a lot of money - we were the highest spenders in winter. Combine winter and summer windows, and we have spent 300 million.
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We weren’t the biggest combined Winter and Summer window spenders. Liverpool spent more in the Summer than we did Winter+Summer combined.

We did still spend £350 or so in 2025 though.
 
.db. said:
Had an absolute shocker with that line-up.

The players he picked also let him down because there’s no way they are that bad.

He’ll have learnt a lot about them tonight, so long term, maybe not a bad thing. Might speed up and get a more active few transfer windows coming up in case anyone at the club thought we might not need them.
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I’m not convinced about that.

Trafford, RAN and Khusanov - proven absolutely nothing at this level.
Stones and Ake - both finished.
Reijnders and Rico - both shite.
Bobb and Sav - Consistently produce nothing.

There was nothing unusual about the individual performances out there tonight. They played exactly as they had previously. Good teams can carry 1 or 2 players. No team can carry 8 or 9.
 
Chak19 said:
Yes Alvarez has been excellent for Atleti, and I don't think attitude was a problem with Palmer, he just wanted to play.
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We will never know about palmer.
I wish he had stayed.Ilove nothing more than seeinga lad come through our youth team.
I was brought up watching Paul moulded
Paul lake.
David white.
I went to the youth cup final in was it 86 .
Sat in the main stand.
Lake was my hero.
He was the one.
I hate it when fans get on Lewis's back.
He's a fucking blue doing his best.
He you as a 19 year old living your dream.
My dream
All our dreams.
Peps made mistakes.
Let players go he maybe shouldn't have.
But when he leaves.
Where ever we are in the league at that time.
Remember what he gave us.Hes the best we have ever had.
The best we will ever have.
The best there has ever been and ever will be.
He might not got it all right.
But he loves us.
And I genuinely love him
 
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