Media Thread 2020/21

[blueju]

@blueju

Is Simon Hill still hosting the sports channel in Oz? I'm pretty sure that the Warrington lad would still be flying the City flag, although he's developed a worrying Aussie accent over the years.

Spent many a match with him before he got the gig down under.

Really, no way. He was on the Foxtel football channel for a few years, it was great having a blue flying the flag. Not seen anything of him for a good while .

 

[supersonicblue]

Would Pep Guardiola’s methods work with inferior players? Mikel Arteta is finding out

Guardiola’s success has meant he has never had to work with squads who aren’t at the very top level. Arteta is trying to implement those same principles a step down

www.independent.co.uk

We must be top again...

They don’t do their research, pep won promotion from the segunda division b with Barca’s youth team.

 

[BrianW]

Pep will never be regarded as a great manager until he takes the Red Lion, Flixton pub team to the Champions League Final.

Meanwhile, Bingo and OGS will be lauded as geniuses for taking their teams of low-paid strugglers to er - any success at all, as everyone knows they get by on a budget of 10k a year.

 

[iceman]

Well if you don't spend 85mill on 1 load of crap centre half instead buy 2 that's how you build a squad

 

[Centurions]

Imagine writing an article of several hundred words which still at its most basic level boils down to amplifying a Football Twitter meme from jealous haters

Considering it's an article by Delaney, that wasn't that bad TBH. It's about Arsenal & Arteta more than us although it's not that much of a drop in quality obviously. Below where we were when Pep took over I'd have thought?

 

[iceman]

Well if you don't spend 85mill on 1 load of crap centre half instead buy 2 that's how you build a squad

And then get a proper coach not a P E teacher to look after them

 

[bluestreak]

She forgets she is the anchorwoman not the expert.
Imagine having her as a wife or mother in law.

hmm I dunno.....If I were her husband....I would jack my job in, buy the latest upmarket set of golf clubs and get a vice presidents box at the Etihad. BBC pay top wages. Life could be worse I think :)

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

Well if you don't spend 85mill on 1 load of crap centre half instead buy 2 that's how you build a squad

Yes, it's funny that Pep gets no credit for bringing the players of the squads of 2016 to 2020 to the club. Maybe his genius actually lies in seeing through the players that have cost other clubs record fees.

 

[remember arthur mann]

She forgets she is the anchorwoman not the expert.
Imagine having her as a wife or mother in law.

No thanks.

 

[laserblue]

Yes, it's funny that Pep gets no credit for bringing the players of the squads of 2016 to 2020 to the club. Maybe his genius actually lies in seeing through the players that have cost other clubs record fees.

Spot on. Just about every player Pep brought to the club has seen their value increase greatly under his stewardship.