Noel Gallagher interview with Guardiola

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Noel isn't an interviewer, so not sure what people were expecting of him.

He's a fan and was clearly excited, he's also a big personality whereas Pep comes across as quite modest. It was more of a chat/meet and greet that happened to be being filmed rather than an interview but it served its purpose as a nice little intro for us fans.

The more indepth stuff will come later with seasoned journalists and once he's spent time with the squad. Good to have no leading questions where comments could be misconstrued and where Mourinho and Ibra would be brought up constantly.
 
I thought it was excellent. I liked the emphasis that Pep put on building relationships with the players. I think we are going to see teamwork going to a different level this season. Noel was Noel, it wasn't so much an interview as a chat and all the better for it I thought. Is he doing a formal press conference? Does anyone know?
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I thought it was excellent. I liked the emphasis that Pep put on building relationships with the players. I think we are going to see teamwork going to a different level this season. Noel was Noel, it wasn't so much an interview as a chat and all the better for it I thought. Is he doing a formal press conference? Does anyone know?
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1st press conference will be on Friday.
 
Viridian said:
I thought it was a pretty bad interview, if I'm honest.

Noel was too loud, far too focused on being the center of attention and cut Pep off on far too many occasions. Pep laughed his way through a few questions and gave the odd good answer but that was a waste of an interview.

There was serious potential for an insightful and gripping interview here, given what's at stake for the club from this point on, but they threw it away in order to get Noel on screen again, like he's the only person the fans care about.

They did it for the kit launch in 2012, they did it for the new badge reveal and they're doing it again now. Why? I'm all for the club blocking the media out on this occasion and making sure it's our own event but get one of the qualified journalists to interview him.
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If I was going to be ultra critical I'd agree with your assessment of Noel, but I looked at it like a bar or restaurant having a 'soft opening' in which it's just a case of easing Pep in under no real pressure.
I don't think there was any intention to be hard hitting or go to deep, just more a welcome to the club.
It served its purpose in that regard and the majority of people warm to Noel though I get that he's not everybody's cup of tea.
I'm looking forward to the real press conferences to take place - I've not seen one for three years, it'll be nice to take an interest in our manager again.
 
Pablo1 said:
Gets him an exclusive interview with the manager of the club he supports?
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He wasn't great though, was he? The pauses whilst he tried to verbalise were a little cringeworthy at times. That said, he's the man and was great to hear from pep.
 
prof-taf said:
He wasn't great though, was he? The pauses whilst he tried to verbalise were a little cringeworthy at times. That said, he's the man and was great to hear from pep.
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He wasn't great if you were after a hard hitting, probing interview. I don't think City were after that though.
 
I was just glad he didn't claim to have been at York away again.

There were some pretty stupid bits - trying to say that the pressure here is more intense than anywhere (seven days a week?) when Pep has been at Barca where they have a daily football paper and if the team loses there is a public inquest until the next game, fans picketing the training ground etc. But to be fair to Noel, if someone rang you up and said can you interview Pep Guardiola, you'd take it.

I do think the whole celebrity fan thing is getting a bit moronic though
 
Machiavelli said:
Is it the non Mancs who are slating Noel, or the Blur fans?
Who else should the club have asked to do such a interview?
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I'm a manc through and through, even like oasis, but Noel's muttering scar times, trying to be amusing fell a little flat on pep who I suspect English is his 3rd language and he will not understand the manc wit.

I would have loved to see khaldoon do it
 
I wonder what the dynamic would be like if Liam had done the interview.


I'm guessing it'd be Pep running down the hallways with Liam chasing after him.
 
Just watched it for the first time and enjoyed it, but most concerned that occasionally something in Pep's look reminded me of camel gob, (possibly his eyes?), which is, needless to say, most definitely the wrong road to be careering down
 
mayo31 said:
I think it is fans of bands like Yes who slate Noel as they want Rick Wakeman to do the interview
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A Wakeman interview would have gone on for 20 minutes for a single question and you'd have to watch it back 30 times before you got into it.
It would have been full of technical things the average viewer wouldn't fully appreciate and the club badge would have been quite psychedelic.
 
Only part I wasn't keen on was the real hammering on the point of the Premier league being so hard, no easy teams, other managers come and get addicted, etc etc. It always makes me cringe, and whilst you can get away with convincing someone down the pub that is indeed the case, it's a bit disrespectful to Pep. He isn't going to say "Oh yeah, my entire managerial career to date has just been swatting away minnows, piss easy league wins, now I've come to a proper league to ensure I don't retire a flat track bully".

That aside, I liked it. Got me properly chuckling at a few points, and it was only after watching it it started to sink in that we have Pep Guardiola as the manager of Manchester City. We throw the term genius around a lot, but I think in football terms he is the closest thing to it in management. Just hope we give him everything he needs to maximize his time here. There is absolutely no point hoping he can polish a team full of turds. He's even quite specific about that very point in the interview. He's not a magician, he can't turn someone without quality into a quality player. Make sure he has quality players.
 
adrianr said:
Only part I wasn't keen on was the real hammering on the point of the Premier league being so hard, no easy teams, other managers come and get addicted, etc etc. It always makes me cringe, and whilst you can get away with convincing someone down the pub that is indeed the case, it's a bit disrespectful to Pep. He isn't going to say "Oh yeah, my entire managerial career to date has just been swatting away minnows, piss easy league wins, now I've come to a proper league to ensure I don't retire a flat track bully
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Yes, this part was cringey and Noel seemed like a bit of a silly twat who probably doesn't even follow football that much, City aside (and I totally love him). But I guess this was to be expected, and of course, it's not like nothing of it is true; at least physically this could be the most demanding league Pep has experienced, and on paper, the 'lesser' teams should provide higher leven than in Germany or Spain (but we know this not really is the case).

And yes, apart from that, a great invterview and Noel did very well too.
 
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