Pep Guardiola - 2019/20 Performances

[walker_is_faster]

This is very interesting and probably true.

 

[cjn]

This is very interesting and probably true.

Obviously. The need for new faces was the most predictable thing in the world. Of course when a few of us said so last summer the usual suspects on here argued against it. Can't change a winner, not how the club operates, something about respect, etc, etc.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Now I didn't expect that or maybe he didn't mean it by that consequence. But actually Pep said he has nothing to do with players' motivation. (It makes 80% of Klopp's success...) Maybe he just expects 100% always from the moment they sign, but humans are no robots I thought. He would be giving away a mojor part of team coaching.


Pep Guardiola:
"They have to [motivate themselves]. As managers, we're not here to motivate or tell them what to do. They have to do it. In the first half everything was sloppy and not the right rhythm for this kind of game, when you want to reach a final..."

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Now I didn't expect that or maybe he didn't mean it by that consequence. But actually Pep said he has nothing to do with players' motivation. (It makes 80% of Klopp's success...) Maybe he just expects 100% always from the moment they sign, but humans are no robots I thought. He would be giving away a mojor part of team coaching.


Pep Guardiola:
"They have to [motivate themselves]. As managers, we're not here to motivate or tell them what to do. They have to do it. In the first half everything was sloppy and not the right rhythm for this kind of game, when you want to reach a final..."

He is half right, though. You can only motivate people who want to be motivated.

 

[blueparrot]

He is half right, though. You can only motivate people who want to be motivated.

But the truly great players don't need motivating they are always self motivated to do well and win.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

But the truly great players don't need motivating they are always self motivated to do well and win.

True but the truly great players are few and far between. It's the rest who make up the bulk of every squad.

 

[01cravend]

 

[decmancity]

Listened to the podcast this morning when Sam spoke about this. It is ridiculous when you look at the stats. Why it is seemingly our plan B I have no idea. Its a bit embarassing in all honesty, just last week against Southampton we were just throwing hte ball into the box and Bednarek and Stephens just mopped everything up.
Even David Luiz can head the fucking ball away 20 times a game.

We have players who can cross a ball but other than Laporte or Rodri no one else in the squad is likely to win anything aerially.

 

[domalino]

Listened to the podcast this morning when Sam spoke about this. It is ridiculous when you look at the stats. Why it is seemingly our plan B I have no idea. Its a bit embarassing in all honesty, just last week against Southampton we were just throwing hte ball into the box and Bednarek and Stephens just mopped everything up.
Even David Luiz can head the fucking ball away 20 times a game.

We have players who can cross a ball but other than Laporte or Rodri no one else in the squad is likely to win anything aerially.

What other plan B is there? There's no plan which allows you to break down a team with all 11 players in their own box.

Our options are to try plan A a bit faster, or try to cause a bit of havoc with some crosses.

I'd like to see us run at defenders more when they're queued up in the box to invite penalties, but referees rarely give them.

 

[decmancity]

What other plan B is there? There's no plan which allows you to break down a team with all 11 players in their own box.

If we want it to be our plan b we need to have the players to do it, throw Otamendi or Stones up front or just get someone who can do the job e.g. Giroud (first big target man I could think of!). Apparently Pep used to use it at Bayern but of course he had Muller and Lewandowski so its a reasonable plan.