Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

Grealish’s Shinpads said:
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
Click to expand...
If a player is in the panel, then theyshould be good enough to play in an " emergency " situation.
Allison was out for Liverpool and they brought on Kelleher and when they were stuck at right back Bradley came in. Curtis Jones and Elliott get a lot of game time and I don't think they are particularly good.
It doesn't have to be wholesale changes but we need to beef up the squad with players capable of filling in and filling in with players that can play in that position as their preferred choice.
Couto and Kabore were both with us just prior to the start of the season.Either could fill in when Walker is out, not taking Stones, Lewis or Akanji out of their usual position.
 
The Fat el Hombre said:
Back the boss he needs our support (and he's earned it)
Click to expand...
He gets my supprt to carry on based on what he has done for us and I think he is getting great support from the fans at the game given how bad we have been.

However, on a forum where opinions don’t get passed to the players or manager, my view at the moment is that he needs to do better.

His tactics (suicidal high line) and in game management today were woeful. I’m seeing someone who looks confused, frustrated and not sure what to do. He isn’t used to losing and doesn’t seem to know what to do about it.

When Cash was finally booked, Doku should have been on. Grealish could have stayed on and Gundogan taken off. That was a clear half time change for me. I just don’t understand why Doku wasn’t introduced until the 82nd min and De Bruyne wasn’t brought on at all.

The keeper choices have been unusual and Ortega should never have been dropped in the first place for me. He should have been given 10 games minimum before even considering bringing Ederson back.

Hopefully he can turn it around but at the moment I have never seen us as bad as this consistently.
 
I do think something is rotten in the dressing room. do they 100% still want to play for Pep?

not one player is in form. even Soton, Leicester has 1-2 players who are above the rest. who is best performer this season? Haaland maybe due to he had a great August scoring 8 goals vs the mighty Ipswich, WHU, Brentford.
since than he had more poor games than decent ones. hardly any great ones.


Txiki should have never been as comfortable on recruitment as he was. to sell a very hard worker Alvarez and replace him with Mubama from WHU. wow.
but this was just the icing on the cake. Rodri cryingo out for a rotational option for him and Txiki got us Phillips and Nunes for 100m+.

there is a price to pay for these blunders, and now we are paying the price.

the forward planning of the squad building with holding onto KDB, Walker etc too long even bringing back a past it Gundogan.
I guess next summer we can sign Mahrez and Sterling. they wont be worse than Grealish, if anything they might score some which will be an improvement on Doku, Grealish etc.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top
✖
  AdBlock Detected
Bluemoon relies on advertising to pay our hosting fees. Please support the site by disabling your ad blocking software to help keep the forum sustainable. Thanks.