Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

[Vester]

Read your post again. Logic suggests you are way wrong. Have you seen how many of our ex academy plays, most of whom barely had a chance here, are doing well in the PL? They might not be world class, Cole aside, but are very effective.
So why then would at least a couple of O’Reilly, Wright,McAtee, Wilson-Esbrznd, Simpson-Pusey doer example do a job for us?
You just don’t know till they are given a chance. Look at Rashford - if you remember he was about 10th choice at the rags but circumstances dictated he had to play and didn’t he score 2 on his debut? He might have turned to shit the last couple of seasons but he came from nowhere and did a job for them.

Which one of our former academy graduates would I want us to sign this January, if we took that they ever had any history with our youth team out of the equation? Palmer. The rest are not exactly top players and all would currently be underwhelming signings for a team of our stature. And thats after spending time playing regular football at a lower level than us, we could assume they were much worse before getting that development.

Yes its worked well. Weve turned it around how many times?

It has worked pretty well over his years here, I agree. Treble winners, PL win after win after win after win.

 

[blueparrot]

Provide evidence it's not.

It started before he signed, if he thought the players weren’t with him he wouldn’t have signed a 2 year deal. As he always said he wouldn’t. Besides any players that don’t like it can go.

 

[Chak19]

I think Pep think we are a bit closer to having a chance of winning if we only lose with 1 goal instead of 5.

And what makes you think we'll concede 5 if we play the youngsters ? we conceded only two when we played the kids against Spurs in the Carabao cup, we conceded 4 when we played the same team without the youngsters, sorry pal but your arguments don't hold ground.

 

[B\connellblue]

Needs to watch a game from the stands , it might actually dawn on him that his persistence with these tactics is futile.

 

[Vester]

And what makes you think we'll concede 5 if we play the youngsters ? we conceded only two when we played the kids against Spurs in the Carabao cup, we conceded 4 when we played the same team without the youngsters, sorry pal but your arguments don't hold ground.

I think you are living in a fantasy world if you think children will come in without any senior football experience and perform at the worlds highest level.

 

[kaz7]

What a daft post. No one is saying throw 5 in together for fuck’s sake but why not give one or two a try out , fire example O’Reilly in place of Gundo. McAtee when Phil and Kevin were out of form/injured?
Oh and guess what? Wilson-Esbrand is a left back with league experience - he might be a tad better than Josip at defending the left side.

Sorry but people complain we carry rico and he has had a couple of seasons in the first team, we cant carry the younger ones with no experience with the first teamers . Do you expect them to get us winning games ? Really ?

 

[Chak19]

I get it. You dont care about winning trophies, whats important is that we give every youth player with a decent possibility to become an average PL player a few years in the future some minutes.

Yeah I get it we're winning a lof of titles with the current players, Gundo is the best midfielder in the world, Walker is the best RB in the world, Silva is the best RW in the world, and Lewis is the best young player in the world, if you're going to be a smart-arse I don't need to be serious.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

Actually you can blame Pep's slow passing style for that.

No.. because Pep had Sane.. Pep had Mahrez.. Pep had KDB.. they didn't all side to side. But Grealish does. Now Pep might be to blame for going with a "small squad".

But we can sum up the last 2 months and this last game in 2 sentences:

1. No pass to Haaland in the box till the 90th minute!

2. Too easy to counter without a good enough press.

Without 2 midfielders, 2 CB's, a RB.. I don't see how we make top 4.

I can't believe I'm saying this but is our team actually jealous of Erling so much so they won't play to him??

FFS I totally don't understand how Nunes.. yes that horrible Nunes is the only one able to play passes to Erling.. why/ how does that happen??

 

[Chak19]

I think you are living in a fantasy world if you think children will come in without any senior football experience and perform at the worlds highest level.

No mate, we're winning the treble with current Gundo, Silva, Walker and Lewis, there is no chance in hell the children will do any better than them.

 

[samuelyeboah]

His comments?

yeah sorry i meant pep's comments