Agree and lets hope we improve as little seems to have changed since the corresponding fixture last October.Good assessment imo
Original plan was to sign dani alves walker, mendy and bertrand. It is that dani alves did not sign and the club compromised with signing danilo and playing him as lb and rb. We are gonna sign a left back whether this window or the next. Most probably next. Danilo is not a left back nor fernandinho. Of course they can play there, but playing good is the issue.Need a left back ? We've just signed Mendy, and the cover is Danilo who can play left and right back (as well as midfield). I think Pep's thinking is that Dinho can cover at right back and Sane at left wing back (albeit he's clearly struggling). Pep's teams are quite fluid - not quite the English 'You're the left back and you're the centre mid'. Look at what he did with Lahm - converted the world's best full back into a world class holding midfielder. It's a unique and refreshing approach - a world away from Maureen's "You stand there and wait for the diagonal long ball".
The manager sent out a dog's dinner of a team.
A back 3 with a slow ditherer like John Stones in the middle of it. God help us. The oldish Kompany and Otamendi on the two ends having to cover fairly large areas? Which they did rather poorly. At Brighton, Walker had been the most progressive player on the pitch. Here, he hardly saw the ball. Kompany was getting it where he should have. Aguero gets scapegoated by the manager and the idiots on here parrot his opinion like it's gospel. He was an absolute star on Monday night. He led the line, kept going, looked like he wanted it all game. Without him we'd have lost that game. Easily City's best player on the night. But he'll get blamed for the draw because he missed the only decent chance he got. The Pep parrots will say "We must be more clinical." What does that mean? Maybe we should stop fucking about at the back and give Serge the ball a bit quicker. Oh, and Jesus needs a rest. He does Jack Shit where it matters and falls over too easily.
Agree and lets hope we improve as little seems to have changed since the corresponding fixture last October.
Last year we missed two peno's a litany of chances went behind to their only worthwhile chance and managed to scrabble an equaliser.
This year we had a player sent off, missed a load of chances, went behind to a lone strike on goal and barely managed to scrape an equaliser.
Great words but this could easily be copied and pasted from last season, every game we battered teams only to drop points and same shit happening again, possession and pretty passes count for shit, pickford hardly had a save to make in 90 minutes they create 1 chance and score it, sound familiar?If you ignore all the media crap , our team played some great attacking play with ten men for 60 minutes against a team that has just spent £150m to improve their top seven squad , our players showed commitment and great team spirit and could have quite easily beat an alleged decent Everton team and a tactically very astute manager in Koeman. Despite the disappointment of dropping two points it speaks volumes how Pep has got the squad fighting for a place in the side and for the football club , the media can dress it up all they want and promote the "Rooney show" but we took Everton to the cleaners for 60 minutes with ten men , imagine what we would have done to them with a full side .The futures bright and its blue. Apologies for the optimism started early on the Hennessy happy juice.
Beacause 'The best manager in the world' isn't called God, he's called Pep Guardiola and his club have UEFA/G14 breathing down their necks waiting to pounce. PEG's ambitions and City's are different. PEG just wants more titles on his CV, but City are building a legacy.Sorry mate, long essay and your opinion but disagree. Got to challenge this season, not for the CL but the PL.
If PEG can turn the Manure shambles around in a season, not that he has yet, why can't the best manager in the world?
Brilliantly summed up.Mourinho's approach is different to Pep's in a number of ways. How Pep wants to play, and he was brought here to implement a style of play, is more difficult to implement. Mou and MU may have more success in the short-term but hopefully Pep will create something with long lasting benefits. That doesn't mean we can't or won't be more successful in short-term but it is a higher risk approach. What Pep needs to do is balance what he is trying to achieve in terms of positional play with getting the best out of his existing resources.
Brilliantly summed up.
Our owner his here for the long haul and knows our journey isn't a sprint, it's a marathon. It's all about long term sustainability, not just short term gain.
Beacause 'The best manager in the world' isn't called God, he's called Pep Guardiola and his club have UEFA/G14 breathing down their necks waiting to pounce. PEG's ambitions and City's are different. PEG just wants more titles on his CV, but City are building a legacy.
Question: Would you rather quick fixes for titles now, or proper fixes for a long term legacy which meant few or no titles for the next 2-3 years?
Dunno about you mate, but I'm looking long term. I'm sick to the fucking back teeth of "Come back when you've got 20 of this and 3 of these'. We need to build a sustainable legacy which is something that both Mancini & Guardiola have pointed out. They've both said that it doesn't matter how much money we throw at our club, it helps, but it's not the be all and end all.
Clubs like ManUre, Real, Barca & Bayern have got decades on us in that respect and both Mancini & Pep have said it takes years to build up that kind of infrastructure and winning mentality from the Tea Lady to the First team & everyone in between. Money alone cannot achieve this, albeit with good management, it can accelerate the process.
We need to plan log term mate, not just for short term glory, hence the average age of the squad has fallen dramatically, not for our players resale value, but to buy top class young players who can grow up with the club, just as the European aristocrats have always done for decades. As it stands, we've only been doing this for the last 6-7 years and have a long way to go yet.
You're probably right. I don't think the Alves/Walker thing would have worked. A player of Alves' pedigree would, quite rightly, expect to start all Ch League games and a big chunk of Prem matches. Walker wouldn't come to City to play League Cup and FA Cup games and start a limited number of Prem matches. Walker's here to start the big games and based on his improved form over the last two to three years at Spurs and the start he's made with us, he looks like a player who could be immense for us. I prefer the understudy scenario - i.e. Maffeo.Original plan was to sign dani alves walker, mendy and bertrand. It is that dani alves did not sign and the club compromised with signing danilo and playing him as lb and rb. We are gonna sign a left back whether this window or the next. Most probably next. Danilo is not a left back nor fernandinho. Of course they can play there, but playing good is the issue.
If we achieve success this season then great, if not, I won't be too disappointed. 2 seasons ago we had success by winning the Capital One Cup, but in the process Pellegrini almost got us relegated from the Champions League! What would you prefer? A Capital One Cup victory here & there, or regular Champions League qualification and us challenging for the PL & CL?These days, long-term success comes from the clubs philosophy not the manager. None of the top clubs have a manager that's secure in his job for more than a couple of seasons at best.
I honestly think if Pep isn't successful this season he'll walk, don't think it will come from the club. That's why I think it's a defining season.
Anyhow, I'm sure he'll bring success this season so we don't have to worry.
Very admirable but winning things IS creating legacy.Beacause 'The best manager in the world' isn't called God, he's called Pep Guardiola and his club have UEFA/G14 breathing down their necks waiting to pounce. PEG's ambitions and City's are different. PEG just wants more titles on his CV, but City are building a legacy.
Question: Would you rather quick fixes for titles now, or proper fixes for a long term legacy which meant few or no titles for the next 2-3 years?
Dunno about you mate, but I'm looking long term. I'm sick to the fucking back teeth of "Come back when you've got 20 of this and 3 of these'. We need to build a sustainable legacy which is something that both Mancini & Guardiola have pointed out. They've both said that it doesn't matter how much money we throw at our club, it helps, but it's not the be all and end all.
Clubs like ManUre, Real, Barca & Bayern have got decades on us in that respect and both Mancini & Pep have said it takes years to build up that kind of infrastructure and winning mentality from the Tea Lady to the First team & everyone in between. Money alone cannot achieve this, albeit with good management, it can accelerate the process.
We need to plan log term mate, not just for short term glory, hence the average age of the squad has fallen dramatically, not for our players resale value, but to buy top class young players who can grow up with the club, just as the European aristocrats have always done for decades. As it stands, we've only been doing this for the last 6-7 years and have a long way to go yet.