Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

[ChicagoBlue]

4 games into the season. How can a team be tired already?

There was no hint of tiredness against Leipzig.

Pep used all his subs.

No other PL manager has said their players are tired already.

For the first time in his City career, he played an unchanged team for THREE games before Leipzig!

Like everyone else in the world asks repeatedly, if the players are so tired, why not get them fitter in preseason and use every sub every game to rest those that need it?

We have the deepest squad in the League, yet have the only manager in the League who is constantly harping in about tiredness.

Ready excuse, just in case???

 

[Marvin]

In the era of 24/7 media spin, you SHOULD have the self awareness not to say such things, especially when they’re part of a larger meme used against your own fans.

There were many, many more positive ways to express the same sentiment, and I grant you English may be a fourth or fifth language for him, but it smacks of lack of PR awareness.

Nothing anyone says anymore disappears. Everything is available forever. Anyone who walks in front of a global TV audience must understand that their words are being broadcast across the world and saved for posterity in the internet by now.

Speaking of Pep smiling when he said it, I’m reminded of the game where the interviewer asked him why he didn’t look happy after the win. He made a cartoonish big grin and said “I’m so, so happy!” He knows!

Stay until the end and you’ll catch the one I’m talking about! ;-)

The spin is by our own fans who can't read or interpret straightforward respectful comment. Your support is being taken seriously and some choose to be offended

 

[GortonBlue62]

how about “pep your a cheeky fucker?”

I'm not singing any Pep songs :-)

 

[meltonblue]

In the era of 24/7 media spin, you SHOULD have the self awareness not to say such things, especially when they’re part of a larger meme used against your own fans.

There were many, many more positive ways to express the same sentiment, and I grant you English may be a fourth or fifth language for him, but it smacks of lack of PR awareness.

Nothing anyone says anymore disappears. Everything is available forever. Anyone who walks in front of a global TV audience must understand that their words are being broadcast across the world and saved for posterity in the internet by now.

Speaking of Pep smiling when he said it, I’m reminded of the game where the interviewer asked him why he didn’t look happy after the win. He made a cartoonish big grin and said “I’m so, so happy!” He knows!

Stay until the end and you’ll catch the one I’m talking about! ;-)

That vid is a perfect example of why words are less important than body language when it comes to communications.

 

[Marvin]

For the first time in his City career, he played an unchanged team for THREE games before Leipzig!

Like everyone else in the world asks repeatedly, if the players are so tired, why not get them fitter in preseason and use every sub every game to rest those that need it?

We have the deepest squad in the League, yet have the only manager in the League who is constantly harping in about tiredness.

Ready excuse, just in case???

because if you train players in the Summer they get exhausted and breakdown. See liverpool

 

[ChicagoBlue]

The spin is by our own fans who can't read or interpret straightforward respectful comment. Your support is being taken seriously and some choose to be offended

Why is he commenting on ANYTHING about fans, attendance, or any off the pitch issue…unless it is to simply be positive?

”The fans were excellent!”
”I‘m proud to be the manager of a club with such intelligent football fans”

Its not hard…and it doesn’t even need to be true!

 

[ChicagoBlue]

because if you train players in the Summer they get exhausted and breakdown. See liverpool

GMAFB!

 

[ysmsa]

Waiting list fans can go for £30 but most won't.

They are also pick and choosers.

No they aren't, they are not "hoarding" a seat they won't use for the less glamorous fixtures.

If a waiting list fan wants to go they will buy a ticket and use it.

I do not agree with selling the same seat twice when other seats in the ground are available.

Maddest idea we have ever come up with the S/T resale or whatever it's called.

19 days a year a S/T holder has to priorities, 19. How hard is that to do!

 

[Bill Walker]

That's right Pep, we all don't turn up every now and again. But I and other City fans won't make an issue out of it.

Manchester City supporters have been left stunned by Pep Guardiola's team selection for the Champions League final.

I think that is what irks me, a manager should not criticise his own fans.
I think we all suspect that Pep has a big ego, maybe the empty seats affects that, like he feels people are not appreciating HIS work and HIS level of football genius.
The trouble is he is playing right into the hands of our clubs haters. Now we are even more "plastic" not a real club etc etc.
Im very annoyed he felt the need to do this.
He has form too, with the booing of CL anthem. He shouldnt have got involved, he's only here for a few years, were here for a lifetime. And we dont need our manager giving our detractors a leg up.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

I think that is what irks me, a manager should not criticise his own fans.
I think we all suspect that Pep has a big ego, maybe the empty seats affects that, like he feels people are not appreciating HIS work and HIS level of football genius.
The trouble is he is playing right into the hands of our clubs haters. Now we are even more "plastic" not a real club etc etc.
Im very annoyed he felt the need to do this.
He has form too, with the booing of CL anthem. He shouldnt have got involved, he's only here for a few years, were here for a lifetime. And we dont need our manager giving our detractors a leg up.

Bang on with that analysis, he’s very egocentric and hyper sensitive about how anything negative may impact upon how He is perceived externally, but he’s not that bothered about perceptions of him from within the club IMO.

Another example is his attitude towards the derby games - pisses me right off and I’m already dreading his pre match interview which will be another rag eulogy. shame as I love his footy style and he is a serial winner.

 

[Pam]

Careless behaviour from Pep on this one. He needs to stop saying stuff like this. It's embarrassing for
us as supporters and there's really no need for it.

 

[Marvin]

Careless behaviour from Pep on this one. He needs to stop saying stuff like this. It's embarrassing for
us as supporters and there's really no need for it.

I think that should be directed at parker.

So many city fans have bought into this farce thanks to his stupid comments and he's now filled the back pages with more empty seat garbage. Well at least we know our enemies are hurting.

 

[Pam]

I think that should be directed at parker.

So many city fans have bought into this farce thanks to his stupid comments and he's now filled the back pages with more empty seat garbage. Well at least we know our enemies are hurting.

They will be making up songs and chants about this shite all season long, now. I really am pissed off that Pep has supplied them all with more ammunition to tout their "Emptyhad" bullshit. He should never have said it and he better not say it again. There are limits.

 

[samarasra]

Bobby did win the European Championship.

I'd have him back after Pep.

But he's probably still got the knifes in his back when Mansour and Khaldoon stabbed him in the back and sacked him on FA Cup final day.

His best chance is if the Pope buys the club and miraculously wipes the memories of the employees, staff, players etc. who served under him. If you doubt it, just ask them.

 

[Pam]

I was at the game, I didn't see it as a slap in the face. I just get bored of some of the excuses, and people getting angry at Pep asking for fans to turn up. It's nowt to do with the cost of tickets, or transport, or covid, or the ticketing system, it's that a chunk of our support doesn't want to watch European football. Best of luck to them, but you can't blame Pep for asking them to get behind the team.

You get bored of "excuses"? I don't think people should be obliged to excuse themselves to you for not attending a football match, ffs. The same goes for Pep.

 

[samarasra]

I’ve only just seen his response rather than just seen it written down and I do think this has been blown significantly out of proportion. He’s got a smile on his face, he’s saying it in a positive manner and it’s only part of a response to a bigger question. He also says it straight after pointing out we’ve scored sixteen goals in the last three games.

He’s right to say the football and his players deserve as packed a house as possible. He doesn’t put any blame on anyone, he’s just saying he wants as many people as possible there. I do think some have taken it too much to heart (and I get it) due to what others will think of it rather than seeing it and taking it at the intention it was meant.

Yes it would have been better if he hadn’t said it in those exact words. I really do think he’ll be annoyed at the way they’ve been latched onto too though.

I think you are spot on. Too easy to slam Pep when the reality is that the media and non City fans are laughing at the over reaction of a section of our fans rather than what he said. Pep made a comment, he didn't "feed the enemy", the reaction has.

 

[FantasyIreland]

I think you are spot on. Too easy to slam Pep when the reality is that the media and non City fans are laughing at the over reaction of a section of our fans rather than what he said. Pep made a comment, he didn't "feed the enemy", the reaction has.

Nonsense.

Pep's words have played straight into the hands of our detractors/rivals and backed up their claims we have poor support and can't fill our own stadium.

He got this badly wrong.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

If someone wants to do the % of capacity, have at it.

Here are the numbers for the last season fans were allowed in the stadium:

 

[samarasra]

Why is he commenting on ANYTHING about fans, attendance, or any off the pitch issue…unless it is to simply be positive?

”The fans were excellent!”
”I‘m proud to be the manager of a club with such intelligent football fans”

Its not hard…and it doesn’t even need to be true!

Because in a supposed free world he is entitled to say what he wants without censorship.
”I‘m proud to be the manager of a club with such intelligent football fans”, are you serious ?, half of BM would howl about his sarcasm while the other half questioned his sanity. You may disagree but I think he prefers the truth where possible and it is what makes his interviews so interesting. He usually reserves stretching the truth to over praising whichever opponent we play next, which of course some of our fans interpret as licking the boots of the history elite, mainly because they cannot handle the fact that we are amongst the elite now. Posts on here that he doesn't " get us" and is "disconnected", for which they blame him. Maybe it is worth considering that we "don't get him" and it is at least as much our fault as it is his.

 

[SidJames]

All the shit going on regards Covid, being Vaccinated,or UN-Vaccinated, confusion with needing PCR tests etc.

I think his comments **THIS TIME** were unwarranted in the current... "wtf is a Person allowed to do these days climate ?"......"And does anyone ever answer the fucking Phone in the ticket office ?".

We know he likes to blow smoke up the arses of our illustrious,lots of history Rag neighbors every Derby. Almost as cringey as the Empty Seats obsession.

Even the Prawn sarny munchers in the Cathedral of silence have been staying away from low key European games for a few seasons.And that was without Covid.