Pep Guardiola - 2023/24

[come-on-barney]

Matches like these happen...

Fuck this shitty Crystal Palace team and that old bustard..

Playing everything rather than football whole 90 minutes, yet get 2 points...

Disgusting...

But I don't approve playing Rico in these games, when you have Kovacic and Matheus...

Why? Rico wasn’t the problem. Not bringing on Stones at 2-1 was!!

 

[meeesh]

It's evident he doesn't rate them 2 on bench from the summer window neither, so that's 3 of them out of an already depleted squad, everyone in stadium knew when it went 2-1 that it would soon be 2-2,apart from the only man who could change it.

Anyway hope the club enjoy the mantle of club world champions if they win it, means not a great deal to me though I'll be honest.

At this rate I'd be happy with top 4 this season

 

[TrentGrisham]

He more or less threw Phil under the bus in his post-match interview. Pretty fucking shameful, if you ask me.

Says something along the lines of 'Rodri's red card can happen but the penalty cannot'

What on earth is he talking about..?

 

[Mike N]

My lad pointed out that Pep was crouched down in the stress position five minutes before their first goal. He obviously knew what was coming. If so, why didn’t he do anything about it?

 

[red 2 hats]

Pep is bt far the best manager we have ever had, but we can still criticise him, as football fans were allowed to do that, it's all about opinions.
This season I think he's been off the boil and I'm questioning some of his decisions.
Too many square pegs in round holes, too many players being asked to play in different positions from one match to the next, no familiarity.
He moans about too much football but won't or refuses to make substitutions.
The experiment of Gvardiol at left back has to stop, he has to start trusting his signings, I think there's a player with Nunez but don't think he'll get the minutes in his best position, we seem to have a soft underbelly of late, teams get at us and we crumble, no leadership, I'd be more than happy to go back to 442 with a solid middle, Rodri needs help and he's currently getting non.

 

[meeesh]

Pep is bt far the best manager we have ever had, but we can still criticise him, as football fans were allowed to do that, it's all about opinions.
This season I think he's been off the boil and I'm questioning some of his decisions.
Too many square pegs in round holes, too many players being asked to play in different positions from one match to the next, no familiarity.
He moans about too much football but won't or refuses to make substitutions.
The experiment of Gvardiol at left back has to stop, he has to start trusting his signings, I think there's a player with Nunez but don't think he'll get the minutes in his best position, we seem to have a soft underbelly of late, teams get at us and we crumble, no leadership, I'd be more than happy to go back to 442 with a solid middle, Rodri needs help and he's currently getting non.

He will leave at the end of this season, I honestly think he will call it a day, his influence this season has made some down tools, and he thinks he hasn't got the reinforcements to change things, that has to be the only reason.

We or should I say him and his mates MUST buy in January, to get a top 4 finish at least

 

[Brewster's millions]

Season so far is on him more than anybody. Poor tactical setups, persisting with things that just aren't working, arent giving us anything offensively and leaving us incredibly vulnerable defensively.

Refusal to use the bench when the entire team looks on its arse. There's a very very clear pattern of every team getting considerably stronger as the game goes into the last 20, they make subs bring on fresh legs and they have the impetus, pep responds by doing absolutely nothing leaving players who are flagging out to get roasted 1v1 because the system isolates our defenders and gives them minimal backup.

Doesn't matter if we get kdb back fresh and firing along with doku and haaland and have zero injuries, we will still drop too many points we shouldnt because the tactics aren't right.

It’s a truism that you don’t want to understand all of the manager’s decisions, because he gets paid a fortune to see the things we and others don’t and to come up with ideas that others are incapable of generating.

But at the moment - and all season if we’re being honest - there are a number of things which just don’t seem to be working, and it’s becoming increasingly strange that clear problems and issues with the team aren’t being properly addressed.

Things such as the lack of subs, particularly today after a longish European trip in the week, when some of the players he had available on the bench this afternoon actually played very well. Given that we can often be playing 7-8 minutes of injury time at the end of the game, the reluctance to make a change and try to shift the momentum when we’ve been conceding lots of late goals is a bit odd.

Similarly the way he continues to play people who are either struggling physically and/or who are bang out of form. Alvarez may have been rested today had Haaland been available, but he’s looked shot for weeks and he keeps picking him. Walker meanwhile has been shocking recently and he has kept his place even when Akanji and Stones were available today.

Transfers are obviously a bit of a grey area in terms of who has the final say, but the treatment of Kovacic is another odd one given that Guardiola doesn’t seem to rate him. Given his age, you have to question why he was bought if he wasn’t wanted.

After last season we can’t really complain, and these are more observations than anything else, but when you add them all together it does give the impression that something’s just off at the moment.

 

[JewelZee]

Whilst I agree, maybe there's a reason for his madness?
Could be he's made decisions to get us into position in the best possible health ready for the 2nd half of the season tilt...or maybe I'm talking shite!

Sorry but I have to go with B...

 

[beast]

After last season we can’t really complain, and these are more observations than anything else, but when you add them all together it does give the impression that something’s just off at the moment.

Burn out

 

[JewelZee]

It’s a truism that you don’t want to understand all of the manager’s decisions, because he gets paid a fortune to see the things we and others don’t and to come up with ideas that others are incapable of generating.

But at the moment - and all season if we’re being honest - there are a number of things which just don’t seem to be working, and it’s becoming increasingly strange that clear problems and issues with the team aren’t being properly addressed.

Things such as the lack of subs, particularly today after a longish European trip in the week, when some of the players he had available on the bench this afternoon actually played very well. Given that we can often be playing 7-8 minutes of injury time at the end of the game, the reluctance to make a change and try to shift the momentum when we’ve been conceding lots of late goals is a bit odd.

Similarly the way he continues to play people who are either struggling physically and/or who are bang out of form. Alvarez may have been rested today had Haaland been available, but he’s looked shot for weeks and he keeps picking him. Walker meanwhile has been shocking recently and he has kept his place even when Akanji and Stones were available today.

Transfers are obviously a bit of a grey area in terms of who has the final say, but the treatment of Kovacic is another odd one given that Guardiola doesn’t seem to rate him. Given his age, you have to question why he was bought if he wasn’t wanted.

After last season we can’t really complain, and these are more observations than anything else, but when you add them all together it does give the impression that something’s just off at the moment.

Fair and some very valid points...