Discussion: Potential Pellegrini Replacements {merged}

[Ray78]

That twot Mourinho has claimed Klopp has contacted him today.

Supposedly, to tell him he is not coming to Chelsea, but no doubt Mourinho just trying to make himself the centre of attention once again.

But any conversation between the pair would concern me.

He would not want Klopp at City and would have nothing but bad words to say about us and his own experiences of Txiki and Soriano?

In addition, perhaps he was also giving him guidance about managing at Real Madrid?

I genuinely think Mourinho would see Klopp as a major threat and can counter all his mind game shite with a smile.

We have to get this man. Germans have never let City down before...

Unless you count Didi and the great Stefan Karl, who I once remember seeing him score at The Dell for us?

Or Eike Immell Michael Frontzeck, Dragoslav Stepanović (he was Serbian but we bought him from Germany).

Marizio guardino fucking class




In a stolen car

He was and Tarnat didn't do to badly to be fair.

 

[fbloke]

Klopp is an intelligent coach of that we must surely all agree?

Why are lots of you talking about his style of play not matching the needs of the club/the youth system/the Barca boys/ Sheikh Mansour?

I cannot begin to imagine the panache and flair a Klopp team would play with if he was afforded the chance to build a squad from top players rather than build a team every couple of years with what he was allowed to retain.

Wherever Klopp goes next he will create a real powerhouse team, squad and club.

I happen to think that it will be at City.

 

[sam-caddick]

Klopp is an intelligent coach of that we must surely all agree?

Why are lots of you talking about his style of play not matching the needs of the club/the youth system/the Barca boys/ Sheikh Mansour?

I cannot begin to imagine the panache and flair a Klopp team would play with if he was afforded the chance to build a squad from top players rather than build a team every couple of years with what he was allowed to retain.

Wherever Klopp goes next he will create a real powerhouse team, squad and club.

I happen to think that it will be at City.

I hope so, mate.

Our kids are setup to play more in the mould of a Klopp team than a Pep team so the likes of Barker, Lopes, Angelino etc.. could thrive under Klopp.

 

[PragueBlue]

Perhaps people want Klopp because he comes across as a bit crazy, and City as a football club is also a bit crazy.

A crazy manager for a crazy football club, what could possibly go wrong !

On Klopps footballing style whats to say he wouldn't want to play a more possession based game, I imagine it would have been quite difficult to at dortmund as they kept losing their best players every season.

On what would happen to the likes of Silva, he had Kagawa as an important member of his team for a while didn't he? a similar sort of player, So I wouldn't be that worried.


Honestly though pretty much anyone is better that Pellegrini.

I'd love Klopp or Pep and Ancelotti, but I don't really get this anyone but Pellegrini, for me apart from about 5 or 6 options Sticking with him and a much improved squad wouldn't worry me.

See more and more I think the same. If we are having a clear out and players who would suit his/Txikis system are being brought in,unless their top of the list is available, I wouldn't have a stop gap..whoever it is.

The bemusing thing is that we're not buying players that fit his system.

 

[Sir peace frog]

klopps team are doing a million miles worst than mr pellegrinis team but ones a footballing god the other needs sacking,you couldn't make it up .

dortmond are 15th in a 2 horse race ,yet klopp is the chosen one,fucking brilliant.

 

[PragueBlue]

klopps team are doing a million miles worst than mr pellegrinis team but ones a footballing god the other needs sacking,you couldn't make it up .

dortmond are 15th in a 2 horse race ,yet klopp is the chosen one,fucking brilliant.

The German league is pretty much a one horse race.

He's not done well this season but that is after about 7 years in the job. We're sliding down under Pellegrini in just his second year. In that 7 years he has frequently lost some of his better players and they have not been replaced well (no idea if that's down to him or the DOF) yet he has still had them fairly competitive in Europe.

He clearly needs a new challenge whether that be with us or elsewhere. Sadly I suspect it will be elsewhere.

 

[Manc in London]

klopps team are doing a million miles worst than mr pellegrinis team but ones a footballing god the other needs sacking,you couldn't make it up .

dortmond are 15th in a 2 horse race ,yet klopp is the chosen one,fucking brilliant.

It's not a two-horse race. SV Hamburg and Schalke are big clubs and Wolfsburg are not short of a bob or two.

 

[Ray78]

klopps team are doing a million miles worst than mr pellegrinis team but ones a footballing god the other needs sacking,you couldn't make it up .

dortmond are 15th in a 2 horse race ,yet klopp is the chosen one,fucking brilliant.

The German league is pretty much a one horse race.

He's not done well this season but that is after about 7 years in the job. We're sliding down under Pellegrini in just his second year. In that 7 years he has frequently lost some of his better players and they have not been replaced well (no idea if that's down to him or the DOF) yet he has still had them fairly competitive in Europe.

He clearly needs a new challenge whether that be with us or elsewhere. Sadly I suspect it will be elsewhere.

Their second title defence ended with them finishing 25 points off Bayern Munich, and only one point better than Leverkusen, Kagawa and Sahin were the first to go but they did sign Reus that season, and both players have since returned. Dortmund had done better than us in the Champions League, but only had beaten a Pellegrini lead Malaga side on away goals. en route to the final.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

klopps team are doing a million miles worst than mr pellegrinis team but ones a footballing god the other needs sacking,you couldn't make it up .

dortmond are 15th in a 2 horse race ,yet klopp is the chosen one,fucking brilliant.

You wouldn't even be describing their league as a 2 horse race if it wasn't for Klopp coming in and building a team on a relative shoestring that won two titles and then had two second place finishes despite being asset stripped by Bayern at every turn. I'm not going to try to suggest he's had a good season, they haven't, but if Pellegrini is sacked in May, which of the two do you think will get the better offers?

 

[PragueBlue]

klopps team are doing a million miles worst than mr pellegrinis team but ones a footballing god the other needs sacking,you couldn't make it up .

dortmond are 15th in a 2 horse race ,yet klopp is the chosen one,fucking brilliant.

The German league is pretty much a one horse race.

He's not done well this season but that is after about 7 years in the job. We're sliding down under Pellegrini in just his second year. In that 7 years he has frequently lost some of his better players and they have not been replaced well (no idea if that's down to him or the DOF) yet he has still had them fairly competitive in Europe.

He clearly needs a new challenge whether that be with us or elsewhere. Sadly I suspect it will be elsewhere.

Their first title defence ended with them finishing 25 points off Bayern Munich, one point better than Leverkusen (Kagawa and Sahin were the first to go but they did sign Reus that season, however both players have since returned). Dortmund had done better than us in the Champions League, but only had beaten a Pellegrini lead Malaga side on away goals. en route to the final.

So he finished 2nd with the 2nd best squad in Germany but finished well behind the winners who happen to be one of the strongest sides in the world. When he took over at Dortmund they had had a few poor seasons previously and were in poor shape. It is largely down to his work that they even made it a 2 horse race.

I would say we have the best (or possibly second best) squad in the Premiership but are currently in 4th and on a trajectory of form that could see us slipping down from even that position.

Klopp's current season has obviously been a bit of a disaster and he should go for that (and is doing). The same should probably apply to Pellegrini as well.