Barcelona had the balls to appoint Guardiola especially coming off the back of Rijkaard's final season in charge and Mourinho's availabilty. Barca's supporters first choice of manager wouldn't of been a coach with who had a lack with a of first team coaching experience. Big egos in their changing room not the ideal scenario for a rookie coach. But with him being a former captain he knew how players tick.
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Discussion: Potential Pellegrini Replacements {merged}
TrueBlue1705
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Anybody with balls that wouldn't give the armband to a tw*t like Yaya Toure is good for me ...... Clueless this bloke
BlueRockape
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After watching the EDS the other night and watching the first team IMO we are trying to develop a certain style of play,to my mind the only manager that can instill that style of play is Pep.
He will be here sooner or later everything else is just building the foundations for the style we want to play.
He will be here sooner or later everything else is just building the foundations for the style we want to play.
Bill
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LoveCity said:Our rivals will piss themselves if we appoint Vieira. This fantasy he'd be the new Guardiola is just that IMO. For every 1 Guardiola, there will be 49 who can't reproduce the impact he had. Vieira's U21 team has noticeable flaws and is there anything that sets Vieira above other U21 coaches in the same league (other than being a famous footballer)? At least have Vieira go and get some experience at West Ham, Everton, Sunderland or somewhere. If we did appoint Vieira, it'd feels like we're trying to repeat what Barcelona did to the letter but the circumstances are so much different. This idea of doing everything 'from within' is at least 5 years too early IMO. Right now we should be trying to make our stamp on the world with a top tactician to get us into the latter stages of the Champions League.
agree with this. vieira simply isn't ready.
Universidad de Chile
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+ 2.de niro said:LoveCity said:Our rivals will piss themselves if we appoint Vieira. This fantasy he'd be the new Guardiola is just that IMO. For every 1 Guardiola, there will be 49 who can't reproduce the impact he had. Vieira's U21 team has noticeable flaws and is there anything that sets Vieira above other U21 coaches in the same league (other than being a famous footballer)? At least have Vieira go and get some experience at West Ham, Everton, Sunderland or somewhere. If we did appoint Vieira, it'd feels like we're trying to repeat what Barcelona did to the letter but the circumstances are so much different. This idea of doing everything 'from within' is at least 5 years too early IMO. Right now we should be trying to make our stamp on the world with a top tactician to get us into the latter stages of the Champions League.
agree with this. vieira simply isn't ready.
Barcelona fans probably said the exact same things about appointing Guardiola as we are about Viera.
It's easy to look back in hindsight, but Txiki appointing Guardiola at the time was bold as hell.
One thing about Viera is he would demand instant respect, maybe moreso than Pellegrini you could argue.
It's easy to look back in hindsight, but Txiki appointing Guardiola at the time was bold as hell.
One thing about Viera is he would demand instant respect, maybe moreso than Pellegrini you could argue.
The ideal way of finding out if Vieira was ready would to have given him the job in a caretaker capacity months back. It would have given us a clue anyway.
On what basis do you say Vieira is not ready? You have no way of knowing unless you have some inside knowledge or experience or his methods.
On what basis do you say Vieira is not ready? You have no way of knowing unless you have some inside knowledge or experience or his methods.
M18CTID
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Did anyone have the pleasure of listening to Talkshite just before 7 this morning? They had a German football correspondent on and the Boiled Bollock was asking him which English club Klopp is likely to be managing next season. This guy said Klopp's sights would be set on a club in the CL but that City is an unlikely destination because, in his opinion, Klopp has certain principles about rich owners in football and the City model isn't one he would approve of. I'm not sure whether this was the correspondent guessing at how Klopp feels or whether Klopp really does hold these opinions. Anyway, it sounded like the kind of hackneyed, bitter shite posted by some sanctimonious twat on RAWK or Red Cafe.
BillyShears
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Universidad de Chile said:+ 2.de niro said:LoveCity said:Our rivals will piss themselves if we appoint Vieira. This fantasy he'd be the new Guardiola is just that IMO. For every 1 Guardiola, there will be 49 who can't reproduce the impact he had. Vieira's U21 team has noticeable flaws and is there anything that sets Vieira above other U21 coaches in the same league (other than being a famous footballer)? At least have Vieira go and get some experience at West Ham, Everton, Sunderland or somewhere. If we did appoint Vieira, it'd feels like we're trying to repeat what Barcelona did to the letter but the circumstances are so much different. This idea of doing everything 'from within' is at least 5 years too early IMO. Right now we should be trying to make our stamp on the world with a top tactician to get us into the latter stages of the Champions League.
agree with this. vieira simply isn't ready.
I agree about Viera - but a wider point.
The British media literally have no clue what's going on behind the scenes because nobody at City is talking either on the record or off. They can continue to pluck names out of thin air and attach them to the City job, but it won't change the fact that they don't actually know who City favour or in which order.
It's easy to write the list of six managers (Klopp, Pep, Carlo, Sabella, Benitez, Viera) who it's possible could get the job, but picking who out of the six is likely to get the job is an impossible task as I suspect only a handful of people even know and only one or two (Txiki + Khaldoon/Mansour) will decide.