Pep Guardiola - 2022/23

[richards30]

I wonder if pep is too powerful at the club to get a kick up the arse and told to stop fucking about?

 

[meeesh]

There will be a reaction Saturday as 3/4 of that team that started last night won’t be starting,so the A team will be on show,nothing to worry about,and when we win Pep will be a genius again,but he will still be gone at end of season

 

[Bluesince1979]

I think pep needs to give his head a massive wobble

 

[alexmcity]

Both Pep and Klopp haven't been at their best this season. Maybe they and some of their players are tired mentally? Blunt comments about some players and body language, overreactions (after Fulham win) indicate he isn't particularly calm and happy.

 

[City_Sean]

Both Pep and Klopp haven't been at their best this season. Maybe they and some of their players are tired mentally? Blunt comments about some players and body language, overreactions (after Fulham win) indicate he isn't particularly calm and happy.

To me the players look visibly pissed off in the roles they're being asked to play on the pitch. I don't think the current system is getting the best out of anyone on the pitch. It's no coincidence that when Pep let us off the reigns on Sunday we looked back to our free flowing best.

These players thrive on muscle memory and a system they know inside and out. This new three at the back iteration is making us totally predictable. The wingers have no space, the #8s lack space. Haaland gets crowded out.

 

[urban genie]

Haaland has slighly changed the dynamic and Pep needs to decide who is the most affective of our wide players to benefit this, plus I think this is why he is messing with the back 4.

Another problem is Kev is agung and form can be erratic but in any moment he can win a game so balancing that has seen the midfield sometimes lacking

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Maybe this is just what happens when Pep stays longer than he normally does at a club, he gets bored with perfecting the greatest title wining machine and hoovering up trophies and decides to go mad scientist and experiment with formations and players to relieve the monotomy of it all in his head ;-)

He has to give the players new tactical ideas though as it’s not him that’s getting bored, it’s the players. He has to give them something different each season so that the guys that have been here 5,6,7 years still feel like they are learning and it still feels fairly fresh. That’s what he’s trying, that’s why we have this current system. But it’s just not working and the players don’t look up for trying something new or different, they just look fed up. And that’s the major concern regarding whether enough of our players are still 100% up for working with Pep.

 

[Blue Maverick]

The World Cup has caused much of this, we usually kick in about now but we are only just getting back into it, we destroyed Chelsea the other day with fast paced football, we need to get that back. Some players Cancelo have dropped off dramatically but remember he was playing left back and setting up shit loads, now he’s a right winger or right back! Get a settled 11 and then rotate one or two for lesser games but the constant chopping and changing is nit helping anyone. The derby is now huge and will show how near/far they are from us.

 

[nellyonthewing]

He has to give the players new tactical ideas though as it’s not him that’s getting bored, it’s the players. He has to give them something different each season so that the guys that have been here 5,6,7 years still feel like they are learning and it still feels fairly fresh. That’s what he’s trying, that’s why we have this current system. But it’s just not working and the players don’t look up for trying something new or different, they just look fed up. And that’s the major concern regarding whether enough of our players are still 100% up for working with Pep.

He’s boring the arse off me with our crab like play.

 

[Roachy]

Something went badly wrong in the build up to last nights game I feel. Wrong line up aside, maybe poor motivation, lack of interest etc. We were appalling.