Pep Guardiola - 2023/24

[daveiw01]

A master at work, i'll be gutted when he goes!

We ALL will, even sky, bbc etc, though they'd never ever admit it.

 

[Gabriel]

There was a bit tonight when he was not watching the game, just sat there thinking, and there was a real twinkle in his eye. I think he knows he’s created something exceptionally special even by his high standards.

 

[lightning Rodri]

There was a bit tonight when he was not watching the game, just sat there thinking, and there was a real twinkle in his eye. I think he knows he’s created something exceptionally special even by his high standards.

There was another bit where he was simply not looking at game but scribbling something on a piece of paper with Juanma, like playing crossword, like suddenly some ideas lit up and they had to note it down.

 

[Gabriel]

There was another bit where he was simply not looking at game but scribbling something on a piece of paper with Juanma, like playing crossword, like suddenly some ideas lit up and they had to note it down.

Probably listing the merits of Catalan Priorat against Basque Rioja and deciding which is better...

 

[Manchester_lalala]

There was another bit where he was simply not looking at game but scribbling something on a piece of paper with Juanma, like playing crossword, like suddenly some ideas lit up and they had to note it down.

Juanma getting the kebab order in.

 

[lightning Rodri]

Juanma getting the kebab order in.

:D

 

[freshie]

 

[freshie]

 

[The perfect fumble]

This is well worth a watch...



From an Arsenal fan no less!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Anybody else feel there's been a sort of sea change in Pep over the last couple of seasons?
Let me explain. Look, we know that he grew up in the Barca family, he was trained there, he played there, he managed there in its greatest years. And he is Catalan born and bred.
You don't replace that.
But I've just felt that the pride he feels in his team (his various teams) and this club has grown and grown. It's something to do with the way he talks about us now, especially in press conferences. This really is his second family. He says “we” unthinkingly and it means everyone — backroom staff, owners, players, coaches, fans, and himself in the middle of all that. And although he was very glad to get the gig in 2016, relished the challenge of managing a club that he didn't honestly know a hell of a lot about, and clearly felt comfortable with ‘his people’ (Txiki and Ferran) round him from the start, I didn't quite feel it the way I do now.
I think the epic battles over several seasons with Liverpool have helped to forge that, as well.
Don't know. Maybe imagining things…