Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

ninjamonkey said:
His words aren't very encouraging. Granted, what he says and what he actually thinks may very well be different and often are but if he's telling the truth he doesn't seem to think there's a massive problem with the setup which is a major concern and him saying he has to play players out of position isn't encouraging either. He doesn't have to when he knows it's not working, it's his job to change things and find a different way that does work.
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I think he does know there's a problem with the set-up but that the problem is being exacerbated by unprecedented bad luck with injuries.
 
youngbob said:
I think he does know there's a problem with the set-up but that the problem is being exacerbated by unprecedented bad luck with injuries.
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An acceptable excuse against Brighton when we're having an 18 year old debutant starting but against Spurs we had a strong team out, we were missing rodri, kovacic and Dias, they had Romero, Van de ven and bentancur unavailable, as well as a few more. That excuse isn't valid for that.
 
RayCTID said:
Hit the bar during that period when it was 2-0 and kev had provided a little bright period too. So it wasn't a complete shit show. And Pep doesn't reallly attack his players in public. He has to pick them up and motivate them somehow.
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You could physically see the confidence drain out of the team when Maddison scored the first. We looked a little brighter when De Bruyne came on but the damage was done.
 
I dont think he will change the system at all. We have always played a very high risk game with possession. Looking back on the goals, they all came from stupid turn overs, sloppy passes, sloppy mistakes. If we play normally we keep possession and the system works. I dont know how to eradicate the sloppyness. Hopefully Pep does.
 
Find it amusing that in the conference he stoutly defends the age of his players, so many being near or over 30, then later in the same conference admits that players are at their best from 24-27. :-)
 
kaz7 said:
I am getting the vibe that some wished he hadnt signed a new contract , pathetic kneejerking to a bad run after four titles . This was always going to happen after the last few seasons
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Stop making shit up, not a single person has said that.
 
Based on everything he's been saying lately and how we've been playing all season, he look like he has no clue how to pull the team of the shithole they find themselves in.
 
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super_city_si said:
I dont think he will change the system at all. We have always played a very high risk game with possession. Looking back on the goals, they all came from stupid turn overs, sloppy passes, sloppy mistakes. If we play normally we keep possession and the system works. I dont know how to eradicate the sloppyness. Hopefully Pep does.
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You're not wrong in saying we made sloppy mistakes for their goals. The problem is, with the way we play we put ourselves under pressure constantly, we almost encourage it in order for us to get through them and so you cannot expect zero mistakes over 90 minutes.

we pass side to side and give crazy passes to players under intense pressure for very little if any benefit for most of the game and we do it knowing if we lose the ball, which we inevitably will at some point, then we suddenly have a massive problem. It's a needless high risk for no reward.
 
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