Pep Guardiola - 2025/26

.db. said:
How can we have reached the ceiling with this team when our current team is a huge core of young players and a few in their prime and a few older players to compliment them?

O’Reilly is 20 and never played in the first team before January this year, Gvardiol is 23, Nunes is new to his position and never played there before January this year, Nico is 23, Doku is 23, Foden is still growing as a leader, Cherki is 22 and has only started 5 games for the club so far, Haaland is still improving on many areas of his game and finishing, Khusanov is 20, Savinho is 22, Rodri is still recovering from his injury, Donnarumma and Reijnders have only just signed for us…

Lads under 24 haven’t reached their peak yet and have years of developing time ahead of them. New players haven’t all settled. As a unit, this team has only played together in 2025 and hasn’t built a true team unit together yet.

This team is at the start of its development.

We’ll see the ever more impressive Reis come into the fold (he’s starting to play really well for Girona), we’ll also make more new signings in January and the Summer. And this team will grow for a few years yet before it reaches its ceiling.

The ceiling for this team - when Haaland and Foden are 29, Gvardiol Nico and Doku are 27, Cherki and Savinho are 26, Khusanov and O’Reilly are 24 and Reis is 23, and we’ve made some more signings of players who are in that 24–30 age bracket at the same time these lads all reach it n’all (with the odd younger players and the odd older players to compliment them) - will be much higher than it could possibly be now.A nice

That’s what our squad looked like in 2017-18 and 2018-19 (our best ever sides). We had a huge core of players who were aged 24-30, with the odd youngsters and the odd 30+ to complement them.
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A nice dose of logic...
 
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