Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

samuelyeboah said:
Maybe it's time to have a conversation about how he's handled youngsters at the club the last year.

Simpson Pusey - thrown out against sporting with the most in form striker in the world for his debut, then thrown out against Brighton, and then never seen again

Bobb - scores winner against Newcastle at saint James park in the final minute with a brilliant individual skill, basically doesn't get a single appearance till the end of the season

Rico Lewis - played in about 10 different roles that he cannot execute, gets left to be blamed for being inevitably out of position until his confidence is totally shut

Micah Hamilton - scores and gets motm on his debut, doesn't get a single minute after that and shipped to boro

Cole Palmer - one of the world's best talents doesn't get a chance in his natural position, played on the left wing (?) and chooses to leave for peanuts, now we're vying for a player in his position

McAtee - after 2 successful loan spells gets brought back and doesn't even get a single chance to show what he's got even during a big injury crisis when everyone is playing like shit

Not even mentioning the likes of delap, lavia and Morgan Rogers who didn't get a chance and are now flureshing

Yes, you can say these players didn't show enough in city colours to impress, but it's also a managers job to set them up for success, to have a career path for them to succeed at city, and he inevitably cannot get the best out for them. That's a point he needs to improve on.
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Conversation seems even more pertinent now...
 
Gundoggin said:
A couple played at Brighton away and Sporting Lisbon in the CL ? Then 3-3 debacle in the CL when Pep brought the kids on with 15 minutes to go …..
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Neither McAtee nor O'reilly played a minute against Sporting nor Brighton, McAtee came off the bench against Feyenoord and that's the only minutes he's had since Spurs, Simpson Puhsey is the only one who's gotten a couple of starts and he wasn't any worse than Walker, Lewis or Gvardiol.
 
balotelli's back pocket said:
You think parking the bus will lead to better results? These players can't play any other way.
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I'm not suggesting we park the bus but playing a high line with man for man pressing when we don't have anybody that can run is complete suicide. We've shown that every single game for the last few months, our opponents are very, very easily exploiting it and we are getting zero benefits out of it. We don't have the energy to put on an effective press, we don't have the midfield legs to cover gaps and we don't have the pace to cope with balls behind, I couldn't think of anything worse we could do right now than continue to play in this manner.

Scrap the abysmal press that leaves us wide open and at least make the opposition work to get a chance. Drop to the halfway out of possession. Go compact and press as a tight unit instead of sending 5 players into a token press that hardly ever results in a turnover and never results in a goal and is laughably easy to bypass and then leaves us defending almost every attack with between 3-5 players at most.

I also don't think the possession plan is doing anything, we can't break a side down so what good is 60-70% possession? We have the players suited for a more direct game we've got wingers, we've got kdb and foden behind the best striker on the planet, all those players can play and I'd argue thrive in a direct, quick attack over the slow ponderous one we currently opt for.

Maybe we still lose games but I just want to see an effort to remedy the massive problems we have and not simply repeat the same tactic that doesnt work and essentially rely on us being perfect, the opposition making mistakes to let us in and them also failing to successfully mount a meaningful attack all game despite all the space in the world afforded to them.
 
Can't he stop saying give me back my players the players clearly aren't even trying what is gonna change if they are back ????
 
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