15 is optimistic I’d say.Watched Liverpool-Arsenal today and the quality difference is off the scale.
Both teams can defend transitions and have quality to create chances. We're nowhere near. The idea that in 5/6 weeks we'll be there is a fantasy. We're an absolute mile behind and it's evidenced both on the pitch and tactically. By the time we sort ourselves out we'll be 15 points behind.
Another example of pure contradiction on his part. Actions speak louder than words.One thing I don't get about Pep is he was such a staunch advocate of the need for more subs to be allowed during each match, and was pivotal in the rules being changed and now never takes advantage of them, for most games the subs he makes would have been allowed prior to any rule changes.
Whilst we have bought some very good players in 2025, we have bought no great ones, and we have no right back post Kyle.15 is optimistic I’d say.
Another example of pure contradiction on his part. Actions speak louder than words.
Remember all the waffle he came out with in the interview after signing his latest extension about having learned lessons during the bad spell last season and wanting to be here to ‘fight’?
Yet he refuses to budge an inch and won’t change. Combined with the fact I just don’t think he has the answers anymore it’s will be another long season and potentially much worse than last.
Absolutely right and I agree with all. Haaland in 2022 is the last player signed that improved the first 11. The rest of the signings since then have been squad signings and ‘potential’ signings with maybe the exception of reijnders but haven’t seen enough of him yet.Whilst we have bought some very good players in 2025, we have bought no great one, and we have no right back post Kyle.
I'm sure every City fan has a feeling of enormous gratitude for Pep and holds him in the highest esteem, and I hate saying this.
But sometimes, the party's over.
Agree. Needs to be said in no uncertain terms. ManUre weren't shambolic. They just weren't good enough. We've gone from being a dominant side on the world stage to being utterly non-competitive among the big clubs and shambolic even against lesser foes in the blink of an eye. It doesn't matter what anyone on here really thinks. Everything we are seeing are the signs of a team who either doesn't care enough, is braindead, are being given bizarre assignments, or simply don't believe in what the boss is preaching anymore. It happens. What are we to do, sell off 30 players?Are you watching what’s happening on the pitch at the moment? It’s absolutely diabolical. With respect who cares what happened to Ferguson?
The context is completely different, pep has less than two years on his contract and likely won’t sign another, he doesn’t have the time for this to continue. If he had the clubs best interests at heart he’d be considering walking.
I don’t remember a drop off like this at any point since 2008, this is full scale regression undoing years of hard work to get us into a dominant position. It’s certainly not being fickle, it’s wanting the best for the club. Why would anyone be content with what’s we’re seeing now? You’re talking garbage.
And here’s the clinker he wants an even smaller squadAside from anything else, it's two games in a row where Pep has made the wrong changes and/or too late. We can bemoan the squad/injuries but Pep picked that bench, which included 3 players we are actively trying to sell, 3 CBs, a RB and 2 midfielders - the latter he didn't bring on, despite the midfield being shot.
I have to agree, I think last year (off the field) was tougher for him than we know. In most other fields of employment you could be given an extended leave of absence but when you're involved in every aspect of one of the highest profile sports teams in the world it's not that easy. He must be drained - I really feel for him. I don't want him to go, I want him to succeed again and again and again but that's me being selfish. Whatever happens, I wish him wellI think he’s lost. People close to him should be saying you don’t need to prove anything, you don’t have to stay and try rebuild, you can go with your head held as high as ever. He needs a break.
Exactly he’s nothing to prove to me you or anybody especially himself. I’m sure he’d want to go out on a high but i think tats just one season to much and the right time to go is now because he ain’t going to turn this ship around the way other rivals have improvedI think he’s lost. People close to him should be saying you don’t need to prove anything, you don’t have to stay and try rebuild, you can go with your head held as high as ever. He needs a break.
I want him gone but being managerless 3 games in would be a disaster also I accept. It is why I was strong in not wanting him behind this rebuild. Thank him endlessly for what he has done. Let us honour him end of last season. Name a stand after him, whatever the gesture is to try to come close to saying thank you for the best years of my City supporting life. The time was right then, let someone new come in and oversee the rebuild and start our new chapter.Leaving now would be disastrous. He, Txiki and the players are responsible for this and he should see it out til the end of the season.
If we've improved great, if not he'll leave
We all hoped that last season. It didn't come, we found form through a Haaland injury and then was hit and miss upon his return. Our season is derailed already and that isn't being dramatic. It isn't just 3 games it is what we had to watch most of last season too. We probably have to stick with it and I hope by some miracle you are right with the mad new planAll the people saying it's over who would u get now? Sacking him would derail our sesson. Vinny or Enrique ain't going nowhere right now. Besides I trust him to come up with some mad new plan one last time
Right up where?I hope he can be bit more tactically flexible but overrall I'm not concerned yet.
A lot of new players to the league and our style joining simultaneously means an adaptation period. Fully expect us to be right up there in April
To be fair we've all been expecting one last plan but at the end of last season to get us over the line he reverted to type.All the people saying it's over who would u get now? Sacking him would derail our sesson. Vinny or Enrique ain't going nowhere right now. Besides I trust him to come up with some mad new plan one last time
The problem with this post is, you can’t just sack off 8 - 10 players, either the manager improves them through a system that gets results or he leaves, it’s as simple as that.I get there isn't an instant fix to our situation and we'll likely have a transition season or two but.. I'd like to shut the door on some players who peaked at the treble/ 4 in a row and move them on..
Players like Kovacic, Gundogan, Stones, Ake, etc.
Would have loved Vitor Reis to be given a go today along with Khusanov because we need to bed in a new core.. since we're a team full of project players.
The funny part about that is I'm not even exaggerating..
Literally everyone's a project except Rodri and Haaland!
Doku - hope he gets better
Savinho - hope he gets better
Bobb - hope he gets better
Reijnders - hope he gets better
Cherki - hope he gets better
Foden - hope he gets better
Ait-Nouri - hope he gets better
Nunes - hope he gets better
Rico - hope he gets better
And today even Erling's scoring should have been better and put the game to bed.
Anyways I don't get how holding onto players of the past or playing them is helping us in the long run.
Pep of 25/26 needs to do what Pep 16/17 did.. trim the fat off the club and make people say what Joe Hart said, "He wasn't there to give me a good career, he was there to win!"