Chelsea (H) - Sat 15th Jan, 12:30 | Pre-Match Thread

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meeesh said:
No I meant how's he getting a wage,don't worry I know where the money is coming from alright,almost a big a joke as Simon Stone.
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Exactly this - somebody ( BBC , rags, raving looney party ) who employs him should be asking why is he getting paid when his approach is so fucking banal ?

Pretty sure Pep is a big fan though :}
 
alexmcity said:
Basically, fans knew better than Pep the team that should have played? I very much doubt it.

This overthinking stuff is blown out of proportion and is a daft and tiring cliché now. Fans should accept that nothing guarantees success in a single game, especially in a CL final. People notice Pep's "experiments" only when they fail. They forget that Pep won the league with 100 pts by experimenting with a midfielder at LB, and then beat Liverpool to the title with another midfielder at LB, and then won another title by experimenting with Gundogan at false 9. If fans were told before the start of the season that Pep would try to win the league with Gundogan as a false 9, they'd have said that's the silliest thing they have ever heard. But the silliest thing worked to perfection! Pep's been experimenting all the time. Pep would be a flop if he wasn't Pep.

All this nonsense about Pep overthinking things should stop. It's embarrassing now.
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Fans have disadvantage not knowing what the player condition looks like leading up the final last season, obviously Pep know much better because he see them training and working closely on daily basis.

That lost should not be blamed solely on him but also the player on the pitch, it's a whole team sharing a burden of responsibility.
 
alexmcity said:
Basically, fans knew better than Pep the team that should have played? I very much doubt it.

This overthinking stuff is blown out of proportion and is a daft and tiring cliché now. Fans should accept that nothing guarantees success in a single game, especially in a CL final. People notice Pep's "experiments" only when they fail. They forget that Pep won the league with 100 pts by experimenting with a midfielder at LB, and then beat Liverpool to the title with another midfielder at LB, and then won another title by experimenting with Gundogan at false 9. If fans were told before the start of the season that Pep would try to win the league with Gundogan as a false 9, they'd have said that's the silliest thing they have ever heard. But the silliest thing worked to perfection! Pep's been experimenting all the time. Pep would be a flop if he wasn't Pep.

All this nonsense about Pep overthinking things should stop. It's embarrassing now.
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Overthinking has become and incredibly lazy byword for "he didn't play the XI I wanted".

What's most infuriating is that Guardiola explained in quite a lot of detail before the match why he selected the team he did, it made sense, and 7 months on people are still feigning ignorance as to why he did it.
 
domalino said:
Overthinking has become and incredibly lazy byword for "he didn't play the XI I wanted".

What's most infuriating is that Guardiola explained in quite a lot of detail before the match why he selected the team he did, it made sense, and 7 months on people are still feigning ignorance as to why he did it.
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Maybe to you it made sense but most people. Look pep is a football Guru but he makes mistakes. This one was a bad one at a bad time overthink or not.
 
Father Paul said:
Maybe to you it made sense but most people. Look pep is a football Guru but he makes mistakes. This one was a bad one at a bad time overthink or not.
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it made sense to anyone who listened to it.

He makes logical decisions. Not all of them pan out, sometimes they’re irrelevant (Gundogan playing vs Liverpool made no difference to the game), but the overwhelming majority of the time it helps us win.

This is what’s so frustrating, firstly the fact that 99/1000 he makes a change and it leads to a win but those 99 are ignored in the other game.

Secondly the prevailing sentiment that he’s just had some sort of ego rush and decided to make a change for the kick of it which is complete bollocks.

He makes these changes when it has been shown our plan A won’t work and we will likely lose again if we try it again.

And yet half the forum would rather he just played the same XI and lost in the same way.
 
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