Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

[eastmanc]

Sir Alex?

Fuck right off with that shit

Not happy with the pile on, some Blues have very short memories about what Pep has done for us.

 

[ID70]

Continuing to persist with the same tactics is ridiculous. Has come up with playing a false 9, fullbacks and centrebacks stepping in to midfield but seems at a complete loss on how to change things when the going has got tough. Teams have worked the tactics out and can now easily nullify it, can’t keep a clean sheet and devoid of any real attacking threat

 

[BLUEisville]

He's under pressure for me.

The players are knackered and we've got bad injuries for sure, but you can't say our record would be worse if he'd tried a different system in the last 10 games.

Why is he STILL persisting with a system that needs physicality and discipline with players who aren't up to the job? It's glaringly obvious to all but him, it seems.

"You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want"
Pep needs to figure out how to get the best out of the players we have available, and simply put he has not.

We have a group of defenders too slow or too fragile to play a high line, so change it – Walker will never put a decent cross in, and when he's that far forward he gets skinned by pace, so take the decision out of his hands and play deep.
We have a group of midfielders who are easily bossed off the ball, so change it - put a double pivot in and make sure at least one has some real energy ... Jack could do the job there on recent evidence.

But in general I think the squad has too few players and too little energy. So we need to figure out what the best is that we can get from this squad, and for me it is playing tight and conservative. Slog through some ugly 0-0s and get to the window where we can buy the pace and control Pep needs to make his system work.

 

[Charlesfarsbar]

Not happy with the pile on, some Blues have very short memories about what Pep has done for us.

Absolutely spot on , although I doubt some of these are blues tbh

 

[eversince 76]

Just as we were unbeaten for 2 games.

But seriously, if Pep feels he can’t turn it around than he will definitely leave us.

 

[eastmanc]

Absolutely spot on , although I doubt some of these are blues tbh

You are probably right. There is an awful lot of entitlement on here at the moment.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Because somebody is bound to take this literally, Im not saying this is the case and i dont believe it to be the case but It's like (like being a key word here) he doesn't want to be here anymore. This is the behaviour of managers at other clubs who know the game is up and just waiting on the pay out.

Same absolutely shit tactics that remarkably leaves us wide open like a Sunday league side whilst simulatenously offering no threat whatsoever. The squad he has fit and available should never in a million years have 1 win in 10.

Change something! It's clear we cannot play the way he wants with what we've got so stop setting us up to fail, give us a more rigid defensive unit that don't fly off chasing balls high up constantly. Have us play more direct football to actually crrate a goalscoring chance or two and don't play walking football where we create nothing and the opposition just waits relatively untroubled for the inevitable error that allows them to pounce and score.

Is he really going to just keep setting us up to get hammered every week for another month until we can perhaps do something in the window?

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Just as we were unbeaten for 2 games.

But seriously, if Pep feels he can’t turn it around than he will definitely leave us.

Yeah, run away when things get tough. That would surely make him look like a stand up guy

 

[clarion]

His innovation became standard with any other innovation to make a progress.

 

[Richie Rich]

What i find kind of weird is that the extension had no effect at all. I thought it would breathe life into the squad.