Never doubt Pep

jamielowndes said:
Seriously, be less of a bitch. For someone who isn't crying, you refuse to let it go. Im done here.
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I dont see how im a bitch as Im not the one bitching about Pep making a damn mistake half a year ago. Sounds like a projection.
 
Pep is the best coach in the world and having him coach our lads is a privilege. He may make mistakes, but it's all in service of the system and to get the best results. His time at City will be in football textbooks and will be the subject of documentaries. Whatever may come of the rest of him time here, it's truly been an honor to watch him turn City into a juggernaut.
 
I think we have a sizeable negative thinking support, myself included. How many on here thought we'd lose on Saturday? I know I was bracing myself for a defeat.
Probably should have more faith in Pep and this brilliant squad we have.
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
I think we have a sizeable negative thinking support, myself included. How many on here thought we'd lose on Saturday? I know I was bracing myself for a defeat.
Probably should have more faith in Pep and this brilliant squad we have.
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As @Didsbury Dave states,its all about personnel.

I too had every confidence when i saw our line up,11 players who have substance,presence and cohesion.
 
The thing people need to remember is that sometimes Pep can make bad decisions but we can still end up winning. He can also make good decisions that don't look that way because we end up losing.

It's not all black and white - individual errors can make or break plans and totally turn a game. We are all guilty at times of judging Pep's plans purely on the result, but even in most games that have gone wrong, there's been chances for us that we've missed, or decisions that have gone against us.
 
What struck me on Saturday was that the Starting XI, (plus Stones, Gundogen, and Mahrez) should be the template for the big games.

Obviously, injuries and suspensions make a difference, but every other player, including the ageing Fernandinho is a step down from that high octane, possession-smothering blanket of domination.

Bernardo, Rodri, Foden and Grealish rarely lose the ball so the counter attacking diagonal ball behind Cancelo is rarely utilised. It's only De Bruyne's misplaced reverse pass that occasionally leaves us short.

Different story when Sterling plays, because despite his goal threat, he runs down too many blind alleys.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
As soon as I saw Laporte and Rodri were available I thought we would win.
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FantasyIreland said:
As @Didsbury Dave states,its all about personnel.

I too had every confidence when i saw our line up,11 players who have substance,presence and cohesion.
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Didsbury Dave said:
And then from literally the first 20 seconds we started to smother them and I started to believe something special was going to happen.

4-0 would have been a fair scoreline.
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Could not agree more. All week we were subjected to a barrage of reports trying to erode confidence in City and reinforce the story that Tuchel is the manager who has definitively got the better of Pep, especially with his squad reinforced by Lukaku so that "they haven't got a weakness". Then we saw the teams. We can never get "revenge" for last May because they won and we lost an nothing can change that, but our players and our manager don't like losing and will still be smarting from that defeat and some of the nonsense they've heard since and I couldn't see a stronger team on earth than that City eleven, certainly when it puts a Pep gameplan into effect. And that Chelsea eleven seemed too basically Tuchel - no Mount but a midfield very strong on defence but ill equipped to pass through City which seemed to suggest a rather more basic hoof to the front men than searching long balls. Their full backs looked dangerous but, as DD says, it was in the first 20 seconds that we didn't so much smother them as strangle them at birth. Pep showed wonderfully that he doesn't mind sides sitting deep and trying to play on the counter because he has the players who can make sure you never get out of your own third and boy did our lads do that. We made Chelsea look like a lower league team playing us in the cup and 4-0 would most certainly have been a fair scoreline. That Cheksea defence looked anything but solid.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
That’s because the only player who’s been good enough to get regular starts in the first team is Foden.

Do you think any of the following players will have contributed to the same amount of trophies in the last five years as the much much much better players ahead of them did:
Enes Unal
Callum Bullock
Aaron Mooy
Billy O’Brien
Ellis Plummer
Ruben Sobrino
Joe Coveney
Olivier Ntcham
James Horsfield
Zacharias Faour
Jadon Sancho
Danzil Boadu
David Faupala
Shay Facey
Angeliño
Ashley Smith-Brown
Sadou Diallo
Jivairo Dilrusen
Bobby Duncan
Demaeceo Dehaney
Harold Essien
Pablo Maffeo
Divine Naah
Will Patching
Erik Serimiento
Pawel Sokol
Marcus Wood
Olarenwaju Kayode
Jacob Davenport
Angus Gunn
Pascal Kpohomouh
Benni Smales-Braithwait
Isaac Buckley-Ricketts
Rodney Kongolo
Yaw Yeboah
Ash Kigbu
Bersent Celina
Chidierbere Nwakali
Brahmin Dias
Edward Frances
Rabbi Matondo
Ryan Corrigan
Curtis Anderson
Luke Brattan
Tom Dele-Bashiru
Cameron Humphries
Aaron Nemane
Charlie Oliver
Lewis Thomas
Oaazee Aghatise
Sam Bellis
Pablo Mari
Owen Hesketh
Noah Ohio
Tom Midgley
Douglas Luiz
Brandon Barker
Colin Rosler
Jeremie Frimpong
Lorenzo Gonzales
Uriel Antuna
Ian Poveda
Henri Ogunby
Ernest Agyiri
Collins Tanor
Thierry Ambrose
Joe Snowdon
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru
Leojo Davidson
Fedel Ross-Laing
Delicious Correia
Paolo Fernandes
Charlie McNiell
Nabil Touaizi
Jamie Bynoe-Gittens
Felix Goddard
Aleix Garcia
Todin Adarabioyo
Joel Latibeaudiere
Mix Diskerud
Nathaniel Ogbeta
Tom Scott
Keyendrah Simmonds
D’Margio Wright-Phillips
Murphy Bennett
Andrian Bernabe
Henry Timi Davies
Daniel Grimshaw
Dylan Halliwell
Louie Moulden
Felix Nmecha
Cuban Philpott
Luca Thomas
Jack Harrison
James Wright
Pierce James
Lukas Nmecha
Ivan Ilic
Joe Hodge
Alpha Dionku
Harvey Griffiths

Most of these went to lower league clubs, other inferior leagues around the world or aren’t even in football anymore. And the few who may have had a very slim chance to be good enough had excellent players ahead of them in their position.

Why would we blood future League 1 and MLS players, and future taxi drivers and factory workers, into our first team when we try and win every single trophy we play in?

That group of lads who played against Wycombe were in the team because they aren’t like any of those names listed above, they are like Foden, simply worthy of being in the team because they are good enough.
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You left out David Brownhills !
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
Could not agree more. All week we were subjected to a barrage of reports trying to erode confidence in City and reinforce the story that Tuchel is the manager who has definitively got the better of Pep, especially with his squad reinforced by Lukaku so that "they haven't got a weakness". Then we saw the teams. We can never get "revenge" for last May because they won and we lost an nothing can change that, but our players and our manager don't like losing and will still be smarting from that defeat and some of the nonsense they've heard since and I couldn't see a stronger team on earth than that City eleven, certainly when it puts a Pep gameplan into effect. And that Chelsea eleven seemed too basically Tuchel - no Mount but a midfield very strong on defence but ill equipped to pass through City which seemed to suggest a rather more basic hoof to the front men than searching long balls. Their full backs looked dangerous but, as DD says, it was in the first 20 seconds that we didn't so much smother them as strangle them at birth. Pep showed wonderfully that he doesn't mind sides sitting deep and trying to play on the counter because he has the players who can make sure you never get out of your own third and boy did our lads do that. We made Chelsea look like a lower league team playing us in the cup and 4-0 would most certainly have been a fair scoreline. That Cheksea defence looked anything but solid.
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Agree mate. And I know how uncool it is to crow "I told you so" but I did post this on Thursday because I was getting annoyed at the "Tuchel has Pep's number" narrative which even some of our own were spouting:

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Never doubt Pep

Pep's only flaw is messing up in some important games. If he would fix that he would be unstoppable. There is no manager in the world able to put a great team together and make them play a more beautiful football. Touchel won the CL but with a team he didnt build himself and and PSG he didnt win...
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urban genie said:
He really does talk shite at times.
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Not sure I agree. I think he gives a one or two liner to give them what they think they want to hear, to shut the question down and move on because really he doesn't give a fcuk about the other team.
He also usually does it in a way that reminds them we are here now and are a threat never mind what used to be.
 
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