All that is there to be seen, no argument, but few of us are there to see what happens behind the scenes. I used to think, perhaps stupidly, that the players were all focused and had the club at heart but that illusion vanished when three of them, Mahrez, Laporte and Gundogan jumped ship straight after collecting their medals. Loyalty comes with money apparently.Don't forget how it ended at Forest with Clough.
They dared not sack him because of everything he'd done and it all went wrong.
Bad recruitment - probably Pep played a small role.
Bad sales - Cole Palmer, enough said, selling too many and having a small squad.
Aging players - keeps picking them, not bringing younger players through, sitting on the bench and playing the odd 5 minutes doesn't count.
Rinse and repeat - same tactics every week, the same as when winning the league but the players were young and capable then. Relying on the same players and the same tactics again and again.
If he thinks that they are worse then we really are in trouble .The difference between your mindset and mine is that I absolutely think it could be significantly worse. Do you really think Pep is happy with how our players perform? The reason they keep getting minutes instead of youngsters is obviously because he sees them in training every day and think the kids are even worse. This is the highest level of football in the world and you are making the assumption that kids cant do any worse if they are just given the chance. I think you seriously underestimate the enormous difference in level between youth and PL football. Of course it can get worse. We could lose with 6-1 today instead of 2-1.
Why are they in the squad ?Different competition though and different circumstances in any case.
The point is that Pep regularly sees these players in training and as such he has a better idea of how good our players are than we do. If he thought any of the kids were good enough to play then they’d be in the team, Lewis being a prime example
Good post mate . I agree about pep as i think he needs to call it a day and walk away a legend and the greatest ever because it’s clear this is not going to get better infact it could get worse if we don’t buy in January which I think will happen . Haaland is getting absolutely no service and he may go in the summer aswell . Love you pep but time to go .I constantly defend Pep on the basis that with the same players Pellegrini would have won maybe 2 leagues in the time Pep has been here rather than 6. Same applies to Roberto.
Pep's seen off Jürgen and Arteta.
But the results recently have been shocking and the performance even worse.
I think Pep is done. Obviously noone will ever sack possibly the greatest manager anywhere ever. So for me it's up to him. But 1 win in 12 could become 1 win in 20 and for a club with so many still good players it raises the question about whether he should continue.
Because there is no other option until JanuaryWhy are they in the squad ?
Because there is no other option until January
that summer transfer window was fucking criminal and if our recruiting team where happy with it should all be fucked off asaoBecause there is no other option until January
Nobody is happy with it but it can't be fixed until Janthat summer transfer window was fucking criminal and if our recruiting team where happy with it should all be fucked off asao