Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

[Gabriel]

‘This is not a team created to do box-to-box 40 times in a game - we are not good at that.’

Which begs the question what was the team created to do? We’ve been signing players that aren’t best suited for patient, possession football (Phillips, Nunes, Doku, Savinho) and allowed others to leave who were.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

You what, he gets paid handsomely, we want players to sign 5 year contracts, not 2 year contracts. No wonder we are struggling to sign quality players (and we are), if the manager keeps saying he's going to go in two years time.
No wonder we look a shambles and players don't look arsed, the manager (as good as he is), is taking the piss.

Of course he gets paid handsomely, he's the best manager in the world who gets paid the most for that reason , but money isnt his motivation as he's a multi multi millionaire. Pep could sign for any club or nation who can afford to hire him and he can take his pick. He loves it here and obviously has high job satisfaction.

Which quality players have we failed to sign because they think Pep will leave in two years time then? I'll tell you, the answer is none.

I don't know where to start with your last sentence. Pep is taking the piss you say? No. You're taking the piss for being expectant and entitled to success. You should be grateful for him committing another two years that will bring his tenure to 11 years, and you should be more grateful for all the outstanding football and success he's brought us.

 

[clarion]

Pep somehow found his motivation by playing and believing this tactics with 4 central defenders and 4 players behind Erling. He added Rico to all of that. That is 9/10 players. And there is Gundo.

It’s the team that can’t defend. It is now proven. 5 times in a row.

The only question is when and if Pep is going to give up from this overthinking brain fart.

I am not sure if he’s going to.

 

[Charlesfarsbar]

We’re playing twice a week now until the end of the year, that’s nine games.

He won’t have enough time on the training ground to drill a new system so he needs to start picking the players that suit one of his drilled set ups

Yesterday we went with the 2-3-5 in possession with Gvardiol and Walker providing the width , walker hasn’t got the legs anymore and Gvardiol was our best attacker but worst defender

Lewis , Bernardo and Gundogan has no physicality and were constantly late on the press when we turned over posession

Foden and Savinho were shite as inside forwards and could affect the game at all apart from the first 10 mins


I think the biggest issue is the midfield 3 , we need at least two players in there who can get about the pitch and squeeze the play . He’s going to have to bite the bullet and play either Nunes or on or two of the kids

If not we’re staring down the barrel of going on a long winless run

His comments about trusting older players also worries me as it’s plain they don’t have anything left to give at the moment.

Ideally we need at least one midfielder and a right back in January, probably a back up striker as well

 

[normskih]

You what, he gets paid handsomely, we want players to sign 5 year contracts, not 2 year contracts. No wonder we are struggling to sign quality players (and we are), if the manager keeps saying he's going to go in two years time.
No wonder we look a shambles and players don't look arsed, the manager (as good as he is), is taking the piss.

Fair point.

 

[Gabriel]

His comments about trusting older players also worries me as it’s plain they don’t have anything left to give at the moment.

He’s shown too much loyalty to too few for too long now, but it’s hard to see him changing tack even if the defeats keep mounting.

 

[kaz7]

Fucking hell, can you lot fuck off, we wont miss you, blues my arse

 

[citymad]

We’re playing twice a week now until the end of the year, that’s nine games.

He won’t have enough time on the training ground to drill a new system so he needs to start picking the players that suit one of his drilled set ups

Yesterday we went with the 2-3-5 in possession with Gvardiol and Walker providing the width , walker hasn’t got the legs anymore and Gvardiol was our best attacker but worst defender

Lewis , Bernardo and Gundogan has no physicality and were constantly late on the press when we turned over posession

Foden and Savinho were shite as inside forwards and could affect the game at all apart from the first 10 mins


I think the biggest issue is the midfield 3 , we need at least two players in there who can get about the pitch and squeeze the play . He’s going to have to bite the bullet and play either Nunes or on or two of the kids

If not we’re staring down the barrel of going on a long winless run

His comments about trusting older players also worries me as it’s plain they don’t have anything left to give at the moment.

Ideally we need at least one midfielder and a right back in January, probably a back up striker as well

Thats pretty much it! Pep doesn't have much time to change it. Forest home, Palace away won't be easy and it's quite conceivable that'll be 6 PL losses on the bounce when we meet the rags and then its Villa away.

 

[sir baconface]

You what, he gets paid handsomely, we want players to sign 5 year contracts, not 2 year contracts. No wonder we are struggling to sign quality players (and we are), if the manager keeps saying he's going to go in two years time.
No wonder we look a shambles and players don't look arsed, the manager (as good as he is), is taking the piss.

Fookinell. Who ever thought the best manager in football would spend 10 years in M11? We have been blessed.

 

[Dazzle84]

Some big thinking needed from him now - relentless fixture list for the rest of the year and he'll need to figure out how to tighten us up