Pep Guardiola - 2020/21 Performances

[samarasra]

I watched it and I watched more contradictions. He said we don’t have two teams and he won’t rotate for the sake of it and he’s not thinking about the derby and he’s going all out to win. All whilst already announced that the reserve keeper will be playing. All whilst Foden has played the last 5 CL games and 0 of the last 6 PL games.

Nobody doubts that he’s not an absolute genius and we’re very grateful he’s here. But he contradicts himself constantly. You might think the journalists ask silly questions but sometimes he could just be honest and say ‘yeah tomorrow is a dead rubber that we really want to win but I will be making a number of changes ahead of a tough December of fixtures’? We all know that at least 8/9 if not all of the players from Saturday won’t play and we all know that at least 8/9 if not all of them will then come back for Saturday. Charades is best played later in December.

Think about the consequences of saying it'a a "dead rubber" and that he is going to field an under strength side tomorrow while Marseilles & Olympiacos are both on 3 points and competing for a Europa League place. Another excuse for UEFA to fine us. How often has Pep talked about respecting opponents and competitions ? almost every game. There is no contradiction in saying he's going all out to win, that's what he always does and he will pick a team he thinks can win against Marseilles, like he does for Carabao games or early FA Cup games, that team may be a different team than last Saturday or next Sunday, but he is not sending out the under 16's trying not to win.

 

[jay_mcfc]

Think about the consequences of saying it'a a "dead rubber" and that he is going to field an under strength side tomorrow while Marseilles & Olympiacos are both on 3 points and competing for a Europa League place. Another excuse for UEFA to fine us. How often has Pep talked about respecting opponents and competitions ? almost every game. There is no contradiction in saying he's going all out to win, that's what he always does and he will pick a team he thinks can win against Marseilles, like he does for Carabao games or early FA Cup games, that team may be a different team than last Saturday or next Sunday, but he is not sending out the under 16's trying not to win.

I never said he is contradicting himself when he says he's going all out to win. If I know one thing about Pep it's that he wants to win every game (unless it's a CL knockout game). His contradiction is the way he was talking about his squad/rotation when we all know what he's going to do tomorrow.

 

[samarasra]

I never said he is contradicting himself when he says he's going all out to win. If I know one thing about Pep it's that he wants to win every game (unless it's a CL knockout game). His contradiction is the way he was talking about his squad/rotation when we all know what he's going to do tomorrow.

I'm sorry but he makes sense to me and I'm no genius and to be honest I don't think he is "an absolute genius" but I do think he's the best, nobody's perfect. Well I won't know the team until the team is announced so maybe it's "we all" minus me.

 

[itisrising]

Let's not kid ourselves, we're going to lose some very talented young players with him at the helm. I reckon we should adopt a Madrid like policy of selling our best young players with buybacks.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Disappointed in him tonight.

 

[Goater=Legend]

What was the reason for bringing on Sterling when Palmer was on the bench?

I just don't understand him, he talks a lot about how good they are and yet we have a perfect opportunity just to get them on the pitch and see how they get on and he doesn't bother

 

[Xhavenjoe]

The first sub should have happened when Garcia got injured. Ake to centre and Bernabe to left back.
Risking Stones to injury and not giving a youngster a run.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

We've just won a CL group with our record points total, keeping 5 clean sheets.
We've lost one in 15 games.
We've successfully integrated Foden into the side and he looks like he's been there for years.
We've got some much needed minutes into some legs, mainly Stones (who looks like he's better than his previous best) and Sergio.

Within minutes of the full time whistle the Bluemoon Massif are posting negative shite about the best manager in the world.

You know Pep is on the right track when he starts getting the Mancini/Pellers treatment in here.

Carry on Pep lad, you know better than anyone in here.

 

[Craig]

We've just won a CL group with our record points total, keeping 5 clean sheets.
We've lost one in 15 games.
We've successfully integrated Foden into the side and he looks like he's been there for years.
We've got some much needed minutes into some legs, mainly Stones (who looks like he's better than his previous best) and Sergio.

Within minutes of the full time whistle the Bluemoon Massif are posting negative shite about the best manager in the world.

You know Pep is on the right track when he starts getting the Mancini/Pellers treatment in here.

Carry on Pep lad, you know better than anyone in here.

We pissed through in an atrocious group and he’s fucked up in all our big champs league games so let’s not kid ourselves he’s doing a great job for us in Europe. He’ll moan about games yet played people who are already match fit in a dead rubber ahead of a huge league game on Saturday. Also wasted a great chance to use some very promising kids. Hmm wonder why some people dare to complain or found it bizarre.

 

[toffee balls]

So let’s get this right, for the 1st time in almost a year , we are starting to pick up momentum ,collecting clean sheets for fun and competition for places all over the pitch and some people find a minor negative.

Stop fuckin whinging.