Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

[Really_here]

Stubborn to the point where he'd rather lose game after game than address the frailties in the team.

You really think he thought "fuck it I can't be bothered to try and sort it out, we'll just lose it" ??? Nuts

 

[bondsman]

Why do you think they didn't start?

Who knows. They both ended up on the pitch

 

[Keeper!]

I don't think Pep has any answers of how to get us out of this current mess. He's said yesterday that every team we face now are better than us, concerning statement really

Not wrong when you look at the team and bench

 

[Fordyboy46]

He didn't say that at all. He was on about defending set-pieces with our current players.

Right cheers, my mistake

 

[blueparrot]

Who knows. They both ended up on the pitch

I know who knows, maybe you could guess. Or you could just read the managers explanation from before the game.

 

[waspish]

Who knows. They both ended up on the pitch

They just come back from injury we can not afford to start them and they get injured?! Because we still have 40+ games to go

 

[meeesh]

He’s always managed on the edge, ever since he arrived, he knows it’s the most important league in the world and his passion is often at a level that has seemed somewhat over the top in the main.

He lives and kicks every ball, falling on floor, storming back to the bench ranting, gesturing towards the crowd, and then you’ll get him sat there staring at the floor looking as though he wishes he was somewhere else.

But……he needs to realise, (and think he has lately), that what he has achieved with us is far more than he and us ever expected, but nothing lasts forever, poor transfers coming in, talks of some players fucking about behind the scenes, I’m very surprised he decided to stay on, but glad he has.

I’d take top 4, hopefully a cup, but it’s daft to say it after recent seasons but consolidation is the key now this season.

 

[Charlesfarsbar]

He's watched the same things happening for 6 weeks and changed it once against Forest in which we played well and won convincingly. Then he reverts back to type and we get lucky to get a point at fucking struggling palace!

Am I missing something in his decisions? Its beyond actual belief how he stands and watches these performances and leaves changes so late.

This form is just as much on him as It is injuries or anything else. We don't make top 8 never mind top 4 playing as we are right now.

Half the team are injured and half of those that are playing are coming back from injury

We play twice a week for the next four weeks, he’s nursing the squad through this period

The performance against forest was because we had an almost first choice back four playing along with Doku and Grealish

Ake and Akanji are injured again, probably because they are having to be rushed back , Doku and Grealish are coming back from injury so he doesn’t want to risk it in a position where we have more cover.

What did he revert back to type ?

The only thing he could have done during this period is trust the kids a bit more but his hands have been tied elsewhere

 

[B\connellblue]

You really think he thought "fuck it I can't be bothered to try and sort it out, we'll just lose it" ??? Nuts

Oh he can be bothered, that's not the point. He just won't for reasons known only to himself sort the fucking defence out. Of the fullbacks neither Lewis or walker are the answer, Gvardiol as good as he is isn't a left back either and then there's the fucking high line. I'd say we've went whole seasons without conceding as many as we have already. Forest should have been the catalyst , it wasn't.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

You really think he thought "fuck it I can't be bothered to try and sort it out, we'll just lose it" ??? Nuts

Certainly a typical post

 

[stan bowles]

Oh he can be bothered, that's not the point. He just won't for reasons known only to himself sort the fucking defence out. Of the fullbacks neither Lewis or walker are the answer, Gvardiol as good as he is isn't a left back either and then there's the fucking high line. I'd say we've went whole seasons without conceding as many as we have already. Forest should have been the catalyst , it wasn't.

We got 4 fit defenders...that includes Walker and Lewis. Who else is he meant to play there with Stones, Ake and Akanji all out injured ? It's hard to sort the defence out with 3 senior defenders on the treatment table. Gvardiol needs a rest, Walker shouldn't be playing and Lewis is struggling defensively but there's no one else available to come in as alternatives.

 

[kaz7]

Not starting Grealish and Doku proved a poor decision today.

THEY ARE CARRYING INJURIES

 

[.db.]

Nottingham is not a good team.

Forest are fifth. They’ve won away at Liverpool, drawn away at Brighton, drawn away at Chelsea, won away at United… the only away game they’d lost this season before playing us was at Arsenal.

 

[.db.]

THEY ARE CARRYING INJURIES

Even if they aren’t carrying those injuries anymore, starting one game doesn’t mean they’re fit enough to start the immediate game after just three days later.

The lack of understanding this from our fans is simply daft.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

We got 4 fit defenders...that includes Walker and Lewis. Who else is he meant to play there with Stones, Ake and Akanji all out injured ? It's hard to sort the defence out with 3 senior defenders on the treatment table. Gvardiol needs a rest, Walker shouldn't be playing and Lewis is struggling defensively but there's no one else available to come in as alternatives.

Well, we’ve got this ‘world class academy’ and we’re winning the divisions at almost every age group, so there might be an answer in there somewhere?

 

[TFC]

Even if they aren’t carrying those injuries anymore, starting one game doesn’t mean they’re fit enough to start the immediate game after just three days later.

The lack of understanding this from our fans is simply daft.

PLAY THEM TIL THEY DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

;)

 

[sir baconface]

I’m pretty sure we are so down to the bare bones that we are putting players on the bench, and even on the field, who aren’t 100% fit. Or who are 80% fatigued. It’s not in Pep’s interests to say too much, and so encourage opponents, but it may come out in the wash later.

If ever McAtee gets more than 5 minutes, we’ll know it’s reached desperation level.

 

[clarion]

The fact that bothers me is when Pep realized that Jack won’t be ready to start he didn’t give the chance to James. He just went back to tactics with Gundo exposed what brought us this bad run.

There is no chance we are getting good results with that idea of playing while Rodri and Kova are out.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

The fact that bothers me is when Pep realized that Jack won’t be ready to start he didn’t give the chance to James. He just went back to tactics with Gundo exposed what brought us this bad run.

There is no chance we are getting good results with that idea of playing while Rodri and Kova are out.

I think Pep is more adaptable than you give him credit for.

It's clear Pep doesn't prefer Nunes in the middle but considering no one else is providing assists or through balls to our striker.. Pep is willing to put him on the wing as hes creating chances for Erling and they're on the same wave length and Erling seems to know what Nunes is trying to do. It's similar to his connection with KDB!

Where as with others they look chaotic, like there is no intuition of where to pass to, where Erling should be. Sometimes you start thinking.. why didn't Haaland make a run there?

With McAtee I think Pep did give him 15 minutes vs Feyenoord to impress and he couldn't hold onto the ball and we know what happened.

The biggest example of this is when Rodri lost the ball vs Brighton in the 20-21 season and didn't track back, just looked at the sky and we didn't see him again that season and Pep started Gundo in the CL final vs Chelsea.

So to be a Pep midfielder he has to be able to trust him implicitly that the player will not lose the ball stupidly. Even Foden didn't get a whiff in the middle for 7.. that's right SEVEN years!

 

[clarion]

I think Pep is more adaptable than you give him credit for.

It's clear Pep doesn't prefer Nunes in the middle but considering no one else is providing assists or through balls to our striker.. Pep is willing to put him on the wing as hes creating chances for Erling and they're on the same wave length and Erling seems to know what Nunes is trying to do. It's similar to his connection with KDB!

Where as with others they look chaotic, like there is no intuition of where to pass to, where Erling should be. Sometimes you start thinking.. why didn't Haaland make a run there?

With McAtee I think Pep did give him 15 minutes vs Feyenoord to impress and he couldn't hold onto the ball and we know what happened.

The biggest example of this is when Rodri lost the ball vs Brighton in the 20-21 season and didn't track back, just looked at the sky and we didn't see him again that season and Pep started Gundo in the CL final vs Chelsea.

So to be a Pep midfielder he has to be able to trust him implicitly that the player will not lose the ball stupidly. Even Foden didn't get a whiff in the middle for 7.. that's right SEVEN years!

I don’t think that should be the reason to expose Gundo and whole defensive line after so many lost matches. We are conceding goals to easily and having only one midfielder is probably the very first reason.

We lost 0:4 at home from the worst Tottenham side in last 2 years.
It doesn’t work. Gundo only doesn’t work.