Pep Guardiola - 2024/25

[Chak19]

And Julian Alvarez last season.

Well that goes without saying.

 

[Pedestrian]

In the last 10 games we've taken 19 points.

In the 10 before that we took 8 points.

Are you thick?

hahaha. Calm down love you’ll upset yourself before your t.

 

[blue moony]

Is it just me or do some of the players seem a bit fed up / frustrated with him currently ?

 

[youngbob]

Haven't questioned him much this season because we've had loads of injuries and fitness issues but he really got it wrong today. Started the wrong team, made the wrong subs at the wrong time, left players out there who should have been hooked (or shouldn't have started in the first place), and then had no answer when Forest went in front.

 

[HelloCity]

That’s why I am worried slightly. Injuries have no doubt played its part.

So that aside, what coaching took place this week?

The players can’t pass the ball in or around the opponents box to create chances.

What is pep seeing every day? I hate to say it but is he now becoming part of the problem? How many players need to go or come in before we start to see proper progress.

I don’t like the noises coming out of the club after each defeat. For the 1st time it feels like the end of his dominance.

Unreal, I love pep and would be happy to have him for another ten seasons but he and khaldoon cannot be satisfied with how the players are performing.

Has the great man burnt out just like his aging stars? I hope not but the reality might be different. Is the club ready to accept that? As fans we most certainly are not.

These are the kinda posts I’m gonna re-post in 12 months. :)

Exact same comments were said 19/20 seasons. It’s all low level reactionary BS.

 

[Goater=Legend]

Is it just me or do some of the players seem a bit fed up / frustrated with him currently ?

Looks like the drive has gone from them. After winning the treble and then going again to get the fourth title in a row, there wasn't anything to get the players to push on again.

 

[richards30]

I’m gonna get pelters for this but if we do end up having a substantial rebuild in the summer, is there a reference for maybe undertaking it with a new manager with new ideas?

 

[Kamaro011]

Here we go again with another post speculating that he might resign after today match.

When?

Some in here is very adamant that he will resign after that atrocious match against the rags, yet he never resign and the club board seems very relaxed and not really questioning his poor performances this seasons.

I will guarantee you he will stay this season and the next even if we didn't get Champions League football.

 

[Chak19]

These are the kinda posts I’m gonna re-post in 12 months. :)

Exact same comments were said 19/20 seasons. It’s all low level reactionary BS.

This is far worse than 2020, no comparaison at all, if we're back to our best in 12 months than we must've changed a few things in our play because we won't win anything playing like this.

 

[mancity111]

Looks like the drive has gone from them. After winning the treble and then going again to get the fourth title in a row, there wasn't anything to get the players to push on again.

Many of them know their time is up and its showing in their performances , we also have too many crocks that will remain crocks at the club so they have to go as well.

We cannot get rid of them all in one summer but Pep has admitted the club and himself made a big mistake in not starting and continuing to clear the decks earlier and it demonstrates if Pep doesn't have the cattle he struggles as well.

We some shrewd recruitment over the next 4 windows I expect us to be challenging again in 2-3 years time provided we bring in speed , strength and high skill level and hunger for titles all things we don't have now.

 

[K-Bo]

Need to go back to full backs next year, Gvardiol as left winger >>>>>>> Lewis or Nunes inverting from RB and cluttering up and already cluttered midfield. That strategy feels less and less effective

 

[Gumzy97]

Both team have exceptional wingers who can score and assist ,city doesnt.

I don’t know about that Savinho was wanted all over Europe even Barca and Madrid wanted him and he put up very good numbers in La liga for Girona. I think it’s the tactics or what Pep wants wingers to do. I don’t think us scoring from the wings even changes if we had Vini and Rodrygo.

 

[ninjamonkey]

The return of rodri, others and a handful of new faces in the summer isn't going to make a difference if Pep is still setting us up like this. It doesn't work anymore regardless of who is on the pitch and It hasnt worked all season. he has to adapt. I'm getting concerned that he won't.

 

[wolviedinho]

These are the kinda posts I’m gonna re-post in 12 months. :)

Exact same comments were said 19/20 seasons. It’s all low level reactionary BS.

Good I hope mine goes top of the pile.

The reality might be different is a reasonable take on the situation.

No one is doubting pep nor wanting rid. I want to make that clear before the pile on.

Burnout and projects reaching their conclusions do happen.

As fans we ain’t ready for it and your post sums it up. I am with you -:)

Hoping it’s merely a tough period and not the start of the end.

 

[Lavinda Past]

It's the same old, same old... week in, week out.

Forget injuries etc. The set-up is just wrong. If Pep keeps churning out the same for the rest of this season, we'll miss top 4 by a mile.

 

[samuelyeboah]

Feeling like your manager hasn't got a clue how to make his side perform is rough. we've been lucky to not have to have this feeling for the good part of a decade now, but this season he just has no answers. no answers on how to make his players preform to their abilities, let alone greater than the sum of their parts. No idea on what tactical tweaks he needs to make, who should play, what kind of football we want to play. The transfers have been panicky and without a clear plan in mind. You feel like you've turned a page with a couple of good performances but it goes nowhere, because the next week the players go back to looking like they've never played a game of football in their lives. You think that at some point it'd dawn on everyone where the players excel, and then its back to square one next week.

You try nunes left wing. nope, that doesn't work. how about right back? he looks okay. then dropped for a month. suddenly he's back to right back again. signing a striker so we can rest haaland. no, he can't play striker, my bad. we'll drop haaland and play savio or phil as false 9. Oh, that didn't work. nevermind. we sign a DM. let's not play him as a DM. let's sub him out for kovacic and lose control of the game. Just weird decision after weird decision after weird decision that conveys like he doesn't know. he's throwing whatever he's got out there. The feeling of omnipotence, like he's always 3 steps ahead of everyone playing 3d chess is completely gone, he's back down to earth not really understanding how to solve this sport of 22 men kicking a ball about.

for the first time in forever the manager, has to be said, has been a net negative on the side. We are preforming slightly worse than what this side can on paper.

 

[ProofMCFC]

Feeling like your manager hasn't got a clue how to make his side perform is rough. we've been lucky to not have to have this feeling for the good part of a decade now, but this season he just has no answers. no answers on how to make his players preform to their abilities, let alone greater than the sum of their parts. No idea on what tactical tweaks he needs to make, who should play, what kind of football we want to play. The transfers have been panicky and without a clear plan in mind. You feel like you've turned a page with a couple of good performances but it goes nowhere, because the next week the players go back to looking like they've never played a game of football in their lives. You think that at some point it'd dawn on everyone where the players excel, and then its back to square one next week.

You try nunes left wing. nope, that doesn't work. how about right back? he looks okay. then dropped for a month. suddenly he's back to right back again. signing a striker so we can rest haaland. no, he can't play striker, my bad. we'll drop haaland and play savio or phil as false 9. Oh, that didn't work. nevermind. we sign a DM. let's not play him as a DM. let's sub him out for kovacic and lose control of the game. Just weird decision after weird decision after weird decision that conveys like he doesn't know. he's throwing whatever he's got out there. The feeling of omnipotence, like he's always 3 steps ahead of everyone playing 3d chess is completely gone, he's back down to earth not really understanding how to solve this sport of 22 men kicking a ball about.

for the first time in forever the manager, has to be said, has been a net negative on the side. We are preforming slightly worse than what this side can on paper.

I’m 100% Pep in, and I’m not saying you aren’t, but this in bold is the exact same thing I’m seeing.

 

[WallyA]

Feeling like your manager hasn't got a clue how to make his side perform is rough. we've been lucky to not have to have this feeling for the good part of a decade now, but this season he just has no answers. no answers on how to make his players preform to their abilities, let alone greater than the sum of their parts. No idea on what tactical tweaks he needs to make, who should play, what kind of football we want to play. The transfers have been panicky and without a clear plan in mind. You feel like you've turned a page with a couple of good performances but it goes nowhere, because the next week the players go back to looking like they've never played a game of football in their lives. You think that at some point it'd dawn on everyone where the players excel, and then its back to square one next week.

You try nunes left wing. nope, that doesn't work. how about right back? he looks okay. then dropped for a month. suddenly he's back to right back again. signing a striker so we can rest haaland. no, he can't play striker, my bad. we'll drop haaland and play savio or phil as false 9. Oh, that didn't work. nevermind. we sign a DM. let's not play him as a DM. let's sub him out for kovacic and lose control of the game. Just weird decision after weird decision after weird decision that conveys like he doesn't know. he's throwing whatever he's got out there. The feeling of omnipotence, like he's always 3 steps ahead of everyone playing 3d chess is completely gone, he's back down to earth not really understanding how to solve this sport of 22 men kicking a ball about.

for the first time in forever the manager, has to be said, has been a net negative on the side. We are preforming slightly worse than what this side can on paper.

I get Nico had a yellow card.

But ive never seen Pep, or any managet, sub out their CDM in so many games in my life.

Nearlt every game this season he has done it, the new CDM doesnt get up to speed quick enough for the game and we concede.

I swear, this has happened in like 90%+ of games he subs the CDM. He never did it in the past.

 

[Chak19]

Feeling like your manager hasn't got a clue how to make his side perform is rough. we've been lucky to not have to have this feeling for the good part of a decade now, but this season he just has no answers. no answers on how to make his players preform to their abilities, let alone greater than the sum of their parts. No idea on what tactical tweaks he needs to make, who should play, what kind of football we want to play. The transfers have been panicky and without a clear plan in mind. You feel like you've turned a page with a couple of good performances but it goes nowhere, because the next week the players go back to looking like they've never played a game of football in their lives. You think that at some point it'd dawn on everyone where the players excel, and then its back to square one next week.

You try nunes left wing. nope, that doesn't work. how about right back? he looks okay. then dropped for a month. suddenly he's back to right back again. signing a striker so we can rest haaland. no, he can't play striker, my bad. we'll drop haaland and play savio or phil as false 9. Oh, that didn't work. nevermind. we sign a DM. let's not play him as a DM. let's sub him out for kovacic and lose control of the game. Just weird decision after weird decision after weird decision that conveys like he doesn't know. he's throwing whatever he's got out there. The feeling of omnipotence, like he's always 3 steps ahead of everyone playing 3d chess is completely gone, he's back down to earth not really understanding how to solve this sport of 22 men kicking a ball about.

for the first time in forever the manager, has to be said, has been a net negative on the side. We are preforming slightly worse than what this side can on paper.

Agree with everything except dropping Haaland, he didn't drop him, he had an injury against Newcastle when he should've been subbed 30 minutes earlier.

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

I get Nico had a yellow card.

But ive never seen Pep, or any managet, sub out their CDM in so many games in my life.

Nearlt every game this season he has done it, the new CDM doesnt get up to speed quick enough for the game and we concede.

I swear, this has happened in like 90%+ of games he subs the CDM. He never did it in the past.

He had Fern and Rodri there in the past