City v Arsenal post match thread

FanchesterCity said:
Seriously, so you believe a manager like Pep got to the top because of football genius, or because he was a very good footballer to start with, who was then already at a world leading club with a very impressive talent base? He didn't start and Accrington Stanley.

Now that's not a criticism of Pep, it's saying that we buy into the 'genius' of big name managers all too easily and treat them as though they MUST know more about football than everybody else.
It's a myth, an utter myth.
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Pep got to the top because he has a gift for the game that no one on this forum has.
 
Surprised that we haven't made more inroads with signings who can help us now, especially at the back. Whenever we have played a top European side I feel we have always been let down by the fact that we only probably have around 7 (of a general starting 11) players who are technically good enough and athletic enough to play at the best level. We've always looked a man short in the middle, a man short at centre back and two full backs short. I'm scratching my head as to why we haven't addressed that and I'm scratching it even more at the experiment of trying two of our slowest and technically worst players at centre back. It seems very un-pep like, although I suppose his options are somewhat limited. Perhaps they are shop window outings.

That said, I don't think we are ready to start the season. I felt the same way last season especially after Stuttgart smashed us. Even though we started the season well, the problems which were evident in pre season soon resurfaced. I just hope that's not the case this season.

As exciting as it is to sign prospects and youngsters, I'd much rather the money go on players who are ready to contribute at a world class level, because that's where we are short by a long shot.
 
Fuckin hell and I thought the comments on the MEN site were bad. This place is laughable sometimes. It's his 3rd game and it was a friendly against a very good side who finished above us last year!
 
OB1 said:
Pep got to the top because he has a gift for the game that no one on this forum has.
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Bollocks. He's just lucky. Lucky with the teams he managed. Lucky to get the jobs. Lucky to be here. Should be fanchester city in charge.

Never mind what 95% of players say about. Ignore other managers that watch him take training. Ignore Eddie Jones and what he says.

Ignore everything, most fans know more than him. Anything else is just a myth.

I bet the **** is no where near Fanchester's level on Champs manager 2012
 
Ok, so in summary of preseason i think that the most impressive display was against bayern, then dortmund to a slightly lesser extent, and today was the worst of them. Kind of a weird unfolding, but then, the kids were mostly played against bayern so...maybe something in that.

I really like the look on zinchenko, and also thought that delph had a fairly decent game. The back however is obviously a shambles, and why oh why on gods earth would kolorov be in the team let alone at CB?

Pep must have been trying to send a message, as city watch has already suggested.
 
FanchesterCity said:
Seriously, do you believe a manager like Pep got to the top because of football genius, or because he was a very good footballer to start with, who was then already at a world leading club with a very impressive talent base? He didn't start at Chadderton Town.

Now that's not a criticism of Pep, it's saying that we buy into the 'genius' of big name managers all too easily and treat them as though they MUST know more about football than everybody else.
It's a myth, an utter myth.
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but he'll know more than anyone on bluemoan, otherwise txiki would have hired @Marvin months ago.

Seriously are you saying he's only a manager because he got lucky at barca as he played for them and if joe blogs from West gorton who won last years fantasy football comp and who's a beast at footy manager, if givin the same chances pep got he could be managing us now?
 
Personally im looking forward to life under Pep as i think he will sort things out eventually.

However we pretty much wasted the whole of last season waiting for him to come, stuck in limbo with underperforming stars. So he needs to get things sorted as soon as poss to avoid another mediocre season.

I would of thought the club would of planned pre season better and spent the money adressing our defensive frailties instead of recruiting in areas where we already have talented players.
 
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