Pep Guardiola - 2020/21 Performances

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Mr Partridge said:
It won't happen but Khaldoon and Soriano need to be calling him in on Monday and asking him to explain some of his utterly bizarre tactical decisions this season and last.

It didn't sit well with me that we were all waiting to see if he would sign a new deal, then he does and the club celebrate it like it's majorly exciting news. Imagine that happening with Solskjaer, Arteta, Ancelotti, Moyes etc. It sends the message that the manager is unsackable. Pep has realised this and become complacent. We could finish outside the top 4 this season and can you imagine the club sacking him? I can't, simply because he's Pep and the precident has been set that he decides how long he stays with us for.

If a manager under achieves their job is at risk, regardless of what they did in the past, why should Pep be any different? He is not bigger than the club but he is being treated as if he is. Arsenal went down that road with Wenger and look where they are now.
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I believe he’ll fall on his sword if he ends the season dick in hand.

At first I hoped that signing the extension signified a Damascene moment - that he was coming out fighting with renewed belief and commitment. Sadly, I now think it was to give the outward appearance of stability while keeping everybody’s options open. That’s fine; nothing dishonourable there and he’ll probably do the decent thing if it doesn’t work out.

Personally, I’m quite sanguine. If it takes new leadership to regain domestic supremacy, that’s OK. We’ve won titles under three different managers in recent times and - with our resources - we can do it again.
 
Needs to grow a pair.

Beating Liverpool twice and beating these twice while winning the league is importatn to us fans

Getting beat by Bayern in the semi final of some corrupt organisation I couldn’t give my left nut about about is not
 
mccity said:
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of posters on the City subreddit there that are under 20, so plenty of them (not all of them though) are wildly emotional and immature, as many a teenager would be. This place has its fair share of emotional folk but not as childish as many of these are. It's why I largely avoid reading it if I can, and it's even more pathetic big brother r/soccer. It might be fine at times but I can't risk trying to bear it. Fairplay to anyone on here who can weather that storm.

Another reason is that the reddit system means that not all posts are created equal. Hot takes that people like get promoted and anything else is hidden. At least on here everyone's post is given the same weight. Everyone has the same voice and it's FAR better for discussion.
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If @Sky Blue thinks those comments are out of line he clearly hasn't read the post match thread on here which has much worse.
 
domalino said:
If @Sky Blue thinks those comments are out of line he clearly hasn't read the post match thread on here which has much worse.
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There's a lot of embarrassing hot takes on here too, that's for sure. I wasn't a fan of some of the things being thrown your way in the prematch thread; you seem to be able to brush it off but I'm not sure another poster might have fared as resiliently. If reddit is a lot of young foreigners, this place at times can give off the opposite vibe.
 
GBrannan said:
Double pivot is apparently a trait of Lillo and something that’s come online since he arrived, so there is a clear impact.

A third of the way into the season, where his input has had time to impact the team because we’re more often than not playing that system, and we’re looking completely lost going forward. We were still kamikaze in defence until Dias came in too.

Pep needs to move the pieces to try to get us back into some sort of fluency.
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The double pivot's success largely depends on the balance of the midfield ie. players whose abilities are not the same as each other but complementary to each other. Today we had Rodri and Ferna and Kevin. Other games we have Gundogan, Rodri and Kevin. Kevin is world class as an attacking midfielder, who is here there and everywhere, 100% effort but when he tries too much himself he leaves a lot of space in midfield and has a different constuctive style to the badly missed Merlin. Neither Rodri/Ferna or Gundogan/Rodri or even Ferna/Gundogan are mobile enough as a partnership to plug all midfield gaps and we don't have enough guile to find gaps in a blanket defence. If we can find a mobile, attack minded but defensively responsible creative midfielder (a rarity), to replace Ferna and form a central partnership with Rodri or Gundogan it will give Kevin and Foden more freedom to pressurise opposing defences.
 
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