I’m sure the next team an announcement in the match thread will have the usual posts telling us what he’s got wrong, and how we are about to be over ran.Media and fans started to talk a bit too early about Klopp being the best manager. Pep's both more innovative and influential and has won much more.
What a manager.
I was hoping so much Pep would reverse LIV's tactics and win on the counter.
It was fantastic last night and we even kept our philosophy to not play hoofball
but try to resist high pressing and find the way forward.
Catching them on the break at the Etihad must hurt Klopp so much and we've seen it post match...
Also we did defend as a team, staying very compact not allowing them too many easy chances.
They did have several though but were unlucky or bottled them.
But exactly that happenend to us over the last years, playing a good game, being dominant but unlucky and lost after ridiculous ref decisions and often on the break.
Serves 'em right.
I think they were not able to manage the pressure as new champions
and I also think we will see them drop points more often again.
As I said before, it's completely different being on the hunt or being hunted.
That said, how good have our Blues been to turn the game 18/19 and defend our title!!
Good post. Pep outthought Klopp last night. Bringing Foden and sterling infield a bit left their fullbacks confused and that also gave de Bruyne space to rip them to pieces. We invited the press, played through it and opened them up at will.
I have said it before but I just don't see where Pep goes after City. At City he has everything, no internal politics. An owner who is interested in football but doesn't interfere, a football board that has incorporated him into it's major decision making and look on him as a major part of it not just a hired coach, the CFG itself being a worldwide organisation, world-class facilities the list is endless . What other club can give him all this to work in ? If he did leave, anywhere he goes is a step down from City and a step down from being at the leading edge of influencing football in the future .
I think he will extend by 2 or 3 years, to 2023 or 2024.
Then I think he'll take a break, and finally he'll go and manage in Italy before retiring. Roma, AC Milan or Napoli - depending on the state of each club at the time - win a league or two and retire in his 50's.
Always felt like he might try international management though after all that.
So do I , though not sure how suited he would be to it without the players all the time to drill in his way of playing only a couple of countries would have the players for himAlways felt like he might try international management though after all that.
I can see the Dutch or Belgians hiring him.I don't think his style massively suits international management but I can see him wanting to do it - I think he's said as much.
The problem is the Catalan independence movement isn't going away any time soon or becoming less politically divisive in Spain, so he won't get that job. Brazil only hire Brazilians, and seem set in their ways.
And I wouldn't wish the England job on him even if he thought the players were there.
So it might be one of those things that gets away from him. Or maybe something that happens a few years after he retires from club football.
Boyhood blue, apparently.
;-)