Discuss Pellegrini...

[NQCitizen]

For me, it is better to play attractive, beautiful football and win nothing than play rubbish and park the bus every game like Chelsea impotents. Guardiola said somewhere: football is not only about trophies.

I would like to see Guardiola play attractive football sans Messi before speaking about the merits of trophies versus style.

... or make the European champions sluggishly awful to watch.

Does anyone prefer them now to under Heynckes?

 

[taconinja]

For me, it is better to play attractive, beautiful football and win nothing than play rubbish and park the bus every game like Chelsea impotents. Guardiola said somewhere: football is not only about trophies.

I would like to see Guardiola play attractive football sans Messi before speaking about the merits of trophies versus style.

... or make the European champions sluggishly awful to watch.

Does anyone prefer them now to under Heynckes?

I sure don't.

 

[aguero93:20]

For me, it is better to play attractive, beautiful football and win nothing than play rubbish and park the bus every game like Chelsea impotents. Guardiola said somewhere: football is not only about trophies.

I would like to see Guardiola play attractive football sans Messi before speaking about the merits of trophies versus style.

... or make the European champions sluggishly awful to watch.

Does anyone prefer them now to under Heynckes?

I've never liked the cunts tbh.
Know what you mean though, they were much more exciting to watch under Heynckes.

 

[taconinja]

I would like to see Guardiola play attractive football sans Messi before speaking about the merits of trophies versus style.

... or make the European champions sluggishly awful to watch.

Does anyone prefer them now to under Heynckes?

I've never liked the cunts tbh.
Know what you mean though, they were much more exciting to watch under Heynckes.

It's boggling watching them play like they have shackles on their ankles until they go a goal behind and Pep sighs knowing he now has to let them attack... whereupon they start thrashing the opposition.

 

[NQCitizen]

I would like to see Guardiola play attractive football sans Messi before speaking about the merits of trophies versus style.

... or make the European champions sluggishly awful to watch.

Does anyone prefer them now to under Heynckes?

I've never liked the cunts tbh.
Know what you mean though, they were much more exciting to watch under Heynckes.

I'd actually be disappointed if we got Pep, can't watch Kompany pass to Demichelis and back for 70% of a match.

Pellegrini is no matter what entertaining at least.

 

[Skashion]

When we won the league two seasons ago, it was also only through the scum slipping up.

We won it with 89 points. Only one team has failed to win the title with 89 points. We earned that title.

This. A billion times this.

It bothers me greatly that on the one hand I've watched people complain that we didn't really win the title a couple years back whilst some of the same are giddy at the thought of Chelsea winning the title for us by doing what we couldn't at Anfield.

It really irritates me. It's been a champions total for 115 seasons (I'm including this season in that as 89 will be enough this season). I once went through it adjusting for a 38-game season and three points for a win. In every single season of those 115 seasons, 89 points has been enough to win it. We faced the best runners-up, in the whole of English top flight football history and yet some numpties will play down a record-breaking achievement as if the title was handed to us. We beat the record-breaking runners-up. We earned that title more than any other team in top-flight football history.

 

[aguero93:20]

... or make the European champions sluggishly awful to watch.

Does anyone prefer them now to under Heynckes?

I've never liked the cunts tbh.
Know what you mean though, they were much more exciting to watch under Heynckes.

It's boggling watching them play like they have shackles on their ankles until they go a goal behind and Pep sighs knowing he now has to let them attack... whereupon they start thrashing the opposition.

Isn't that the weird part though, how can he stand and watch that happen over and over and not realise that they're a front-foot, counter-attacking fast paced team? Still, I'll wait till next season at least before I pass judgement on the Pep and Bayern era. [nudge, nudge...;)]

 

[kaz7]

For me, it is better to play attractive, beautiful football and win nothing than play rubbish and park the bus every game like Chelsea impotents. Guardiola said somewhere: football is not only about trophies.

You want to be Arsenal then?

 

[aguero93:20]

For me, it is better to play attractive, beautiful football and win nothing than play rubbish and park the bus every game like Chelsea impotents. Guardiola said somewhere: football is not only about trophies.

You want to be Arsenal then?

Guardiola would want to sort out the numbingly boring football his team are playing as well then. Funny that came up now...

 

[TGR]

I'd expect that comment from a two bit tabloid hack on the Sunday Supplement if i'm honest.

yeah bit OTT it could be put another way, With an England international striker and a 3 time PL winning defender in the back 4

Of course its OTT. Thats the point. Chelsea have been crying out for striker all season and they let one go who just may help fire Liverpool to the title - hence 'Chelsea reject'. Same with Kolo. Deemed not good enough for us and let go on a free. And where to? Thats right Liverpool in order to help them (possibly) beat us to the title. You have to have a heart of stone not to cry at the irony. The one I forgot was Victor Moses and many thanks to chris85 for pointing it out. It made my day.

The cherry picking a post in an attempt to deflect from the actual points raised re big games has become a predictable tactic closely followed by the "...well you liked Mancini blah, blah" pivot which I guess is one way of not dealing with the issues. I am on record here saying that the League Cup was on my personal bucket list and thank you Mr Pellers. Its purely a personal thing and not shared by everyone but there you go.

I still think we have an excellent chance of winning the league but the points remain:

1) Pellers in game management is too passive.
2) Use of subs is too predictable and seems to be pre planned with no account taken of game momentum.
3) The big games. Our record against our immediate title rivals is poor. Played 6. Won 2. Drawn 1. Lost 3. Games against your immediate rivals in a tight race are crucial given the point swing. At three key points in the season where the title was there for us to take control we failed to do so. Slip up once well ok. Twice is a concern. Three times is fucking criminal. In the CL our 4 big games were Played 4. Won 1. Lost 3. And the one we won was a dead rubber. There is a pattern. There is always a pattern. So far we have dismissed the pattern in favour of 'players making mistakes' and 'bad refs' and yes at Anfield we are playing the ref and will not get some decisions just as Liverpool didn't get some decisions when we played them at home so guess what don't give them a 2 goal fucking head start.

I am not looking for Pellers to go. He won't go anyway and as I said I was made up over winning the League Cup so I am not interested in calling for his sacking even if we don't win the league. But if we do lose the league to Liverpool there will be a few managers including Pellers who will have to take a long hard fucking look at themselves and seriously up their game next season. Furthermore if we do lose out to Liverpool and/or finish 3rd I do not want to hear any more fucking garbage about the vast improvement this season or whining about what a **** Mancini was as a) I already knew he was a ****, b) I didn't care he was **** and c) the **** wouldn't have finished fucking third.

Now all that said this title race is far from over and the thought of the summer with Liverpool as Champions is frankly too awful to contemplate so lets win the next 6 fucking games and make sure it never happens and that we never speak of it again. Ever.

Spot on Bob.