Pep’s Spurs (H) Post-Match Interview

My take for what it’s worth. He’s right about complacency from players , fans and management which includes himself along with the board . It’s been obvious for the majority of the season that certain experienced players have been coasting . The club doesn’t help itself with scandalous ticket prices and alienating its traditional fan base .
Don’t think Pep helps himself with his reluctance to use his bench , although he seems to be changing his thinking recently.
The left back scenario has been ongoing for numerous seasons now and the clubs reluctance to address it is baffling.
Hopefully this will be a turning point and a kick up the arse for everyone. I’ve got no doubt that his words will have reverberated around the changing room and club this morning . Players who felt comfortable over the last few years have got two options from here on in.
 
Was at the game but haven't seen the interview. Pep's 100 per cent right. He's a high energy guy and I was hoping we'd create a cauldron atmosphere last night for the team to feed off. I've been going since 1968 and the current long periods of silence in the stands are like a fecking church service - it's embarrassing.

We used to be known for having a crazily noisy home crowd - pre-Etihad. Now we're known for being quiet like Arsenal. Unfortunately, we now have a lot of middle class fans who can afford the tickets. Mr and Mrs Middle Class from Bramhall, Hale and Alderley Edge. They tilt their middle class heads to the side and smile a lot in their designer jeans, make no noise apart from chuntering amongst themselves and leave early. Two years ago, I moved from the North/Family Stand to the East stand to sit with my mate. Jeez, I feel like I've moved to a library. In the North Stand I was nowhere near being the noisiest, but in the East Stand I am. Where I sit now, if I stand up and make some noise, Mr and Mrs Middle Class look at me as though it's 'Sit down, you're embarrassing us.'

We need to start making some noise or Pep will be off sooner than we think. The players feed off it.
 
He's using the press to get the supporters going. He's knows there will be a pile on now. Thats fair enough. But great short passes don't get you off your seat, it's great to watch but you can sit back in your seat and admire that stuff ( and I do) but its chances that get you off your seat and we don't / haven't created lots of those recently. So in a roundabout way it is his fault.
Now, if that is a lack of passion in the players ( apart form the ones he specially mentioned, Nathan, Julian and Rico) then he has to do something about that. We do move the ball to slowly at times and it's only when we do that we get at teams and create chances. This isn't new - and atm it's only Rico and Julian that do this. Jacks problem is that he doesn't make decisions early enough like Raz used to. Teams will let us knock it about for ages because it doesn't hurt them. It's not rocket science.
 
Inter Me Nan said:
I see Pep doesn't get us has raised it's head again, i couldn't give a fuck if he does or doesn't he's not here to be our friend, he's here because he's a trophy machine.
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Absolutely. Which is why it is on him, and not on fans whether regulars or tourists or whatever, to win football matches. Look at Liverpool's best fans in the world, support and passion quaking the fucking earth through thick and thin and what not, and where the are they, 10th in the table.

Huge distraction that, really is. But, if it gets the team going, and players bust a gut because they think they have to react to fans reacting to him, all for it.
 
waspish said:
Just watched Micah response to pep after Match interview! Said sound like he has had enough! Micah you been with Carragher to long you 100% wrong and so so out of touch with Manchester City! Your playing the crowd! Totally disappointed with him
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Agree or disagree with Pep, one thing you absolutely can not say is that he has 'had enough'.
 
inbetween said:
Who's he meant to play at the back though? Laporte and Dias haven't been fit enough to play every game and Stones has been off and on. It might calm down a bit now that Dias is back and he looked fired up when he came on last night.

To be honest, the only worry I have at the back is the full backs because any bad performance really hurts us going forwards. Walker has done alright but Cancelo has really gone off a bit over the last few games.

You could see how much it affects us last night. The amount of times Grealish came inside and then knocked the ball to Ake but Ake just isn't an attacking player, we're actually really missing Zinchenko! Lewis is ideal on the right but we don't have anyone to challenge Cancelo on the left other than Gomez (who's really more of a midfielder) so that's the main problem back there for me.
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Fair point re injuries, but he was alternating constantly even when they were fit. We have known for ages that Cancelo is useless at RB, the fact that he got replaced in the national team in the WC but that the Portuguese Danny Mills at the rags proves it further. I honestly thought he was one of our better players in the derby. I love Zinny but he always wasn't very attacking, the problem now is that we have a guy up front that feeds on deliveries but we don't have any player in the fullback positions (other than Cancelo) that can provide.
 
domalino said:
Yesterday's match proved it's not about Pep or his tactics or his selections. It's about the players and their collective intensity.
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You can argue yeaterday's match proved that. Plenty of other matches have proved otherwise. It is both, a lot of the time, either one changing could be the difference.
 
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