Good for you. No one asked you to participate. Jump on the world football comment if it suits your agenda. The club should not be deemed a failure because we have yet to win the fabled champions league.I dismissed your top of world football comment. Your response was to talk about our achievements in English football. If that is the logic you use I prefer to not carry on with the exchange. Hyperbole either way isn't something I wish to waste time on.
The club will continue with this identity that we have now when Pep leaves. Young kids growing up watching football who don't really follow City will know City as the team with exciting football. Keepers that play out from the back. Full backs that come into midfield. Technically gifted players in all positions.
Pep has done to City what Johan cruyff did at Barcelona we now have an identity on the pitch. Which is being taught at all levels in the academy.
Its a winning identity. Its brought us trophies upon trophies, the next manager that comes in will play the same style or a sort of same style.
Its now the identity of our club. Not many clubs have that. Barca did have it but management being terrible that fell away.
Never said anyone asked me to participateGood for you. No one asked you to participate. Jump on the world football comment if it suits your agenda. The club should not be deemed a failure because we have yet to win the fabled champions league.
Nah.GET TUCHEL
Graham Potter.
What’s the criteria? Inheriting Barcelona 2 years after they’d won a European Cup, with key players from the Spain Euro 2008 team and a Messi who was naturally destined to be the best player in the world? Or winning default titles at Bayern while neutralising them Europe? Or winning a 3 titles in his 5 years here, in each of which he had the best squad in the league?
Where’s the evidence of superiority, that can’t be accredited to circumstance?
He doesn’t have a reference point of overachievement - the true barometer of greatness for a manager - like Ferguson did with Aberdeen or Klopp had with Dortmund and Liverpool.
You'd think he personally dragged the club up from Division 2 and won us our first Premier League title the way some on here deify him.
Yep. Winning means nothing if it’s inevitable - I’d rather have done it the Leicester way; an owner who wants to invest rather than monopolise, develop our own talent and win one title and cup in 5 years if it was achieved more organically than simply buying £1b of players to neutralise the competition.
Wanna bet? ;)Martin Demichelis will return at some stage.
Agree totally with this. You can almost predict results from Pep's mood in press conferences. He seems to go from one extreme to another. I think the players all respect him as a brilliant manager but you can imagine he must be hard work. His intensity is his strength and his weakness. I think Pep himself has admitted this in the past and said he always needs a good deputy to keep him on track. Perhaps the fact he is living apart from his family (back in Barca) is affecting him. City is his longest stay anywhere as a Manager so we are in uncharted territory.I remember Pep saying his time cycle at Clubs was dictated by other factors.
The obvious one, being the high intensity game he wanted, was quite demanding on players.
I also think Pep could potentially be mentally draining on players. I do think Pep can be prone to dark moods. Anyone who has lived with someone with mood swings, will know it can be quite draining on you mentally.
I have had the feeling all week, that there is something going on with him.
When Pep is happy, the team plays happy. When Pep is dark and moody, the performances reflect this.
Hopefully happy Pep back for Chelsea.
Should of went with someone more stable and long term. If we ever lost 5 in a row he would be off.Agree totally with this. You can almost predict results from Pep's mood in press conferences. He seems to go from one extreme to another. I think the players all respect him as a brilliant manager but you can imagine he must be hard work. His intensity is his strength and his weakness. I think Pep himself has admitted this in the past and said he always needs a good deputy to keep him on track. Perhaps the fact he is living apart from his family (back in Barca) is affecting him. City is his longest stay anywhere as a Manager so we are in uncharted territory.
How the fuck would a journo know that ?sam said in the new episode of why always us that during players contract negotiations they were assured pep isnt done after 7 years
Are you for real or is this a parody post? Your use of the footballer’s tense hopefully means the latter.Should of went with someone more stable and long term. If we ever lost 5 in a row he would be off.
yep, when his team has a bad run he just bells there Harry and ask's can his team have a good spell.Haven’t followed the whole thread but one person whose comes across well when he speaks and who Pep (I think) referred to as the best young English manager - Graham Potter
*Should have gone withShould of went with someone more stable and long term. If we ever lost 5 in a row he would be off.
Should of went with someone more stable and long term. If we ever lost 5 in a row he would be off.