Pep Guardiola - 2025/26

Postman Pep said:
He was speaking as a private individual at a charity event. If he was wearing a keffiyeh on the sidelines or speaking out in a pre or post match interview/press conference you might have a point .... but he wasn't so you don't.
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Away from the touchline Ferguson made no secret of his support for Labour. Throughout his career, he provided endorsements, financial support, and public backing for the party.

No doubt his subsequent knighthood from the Blair government was entirely unrelated.
 
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mike1923 said:
There is a growing desperation among Premier League managers that this will be Pep Guardiola's final season at Manchester City even though his contract runs until 2027 - The Times

I’m sure random other managers in the league will be the first to know Pep’s plans
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Fixed it for you
 
Fordyboy46 said:
I don't agree, keep political views away from sport
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You can’t “keep” politics out of sport when it’s been political from day one.

This club was founded to keep working class men from joining gangs and getting blind drunk on the weekends. It’s been a sociopolitical endeavor from the beginning, and the same is true of almost all the biggest clubs and sporting rivalries in the country.

What people invariably mean when they say this is “keep politics I don’t like out of football”.
 
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I admire Pep as a manager and as a man. His willingness to speak for what he believes in, and to speak up for humanity, is a great thing. He isn't speaking about politics, he is speaking about the slaying of men, women, and children and the leaders who bring this about. Now that Israel has confirmed 72,000 dead in Gaza, I don't think that anyone with a hint of compassion in their hearts would fail to condemn such mass slaughter. He also mentioned Sudan. It is time for good people to speak up and for others to take collective action against these regimes that have held the world hostage to their ideologies for far too long. A leader who fails to speak up is a failed one - the cost to humanity is too great to bear.
 
oldius said:
I admire Pep as a manager and as a man. His willingness to speak for what he believes in, and to speak up for humanity, is a great thing. He isn't speaking about politics, he is speaking about the slaying of men, women, and children and the leaders who bring this about. Now that Israel has confirmed 72,000 dead in Gaza, I don't think that anyone with a hint of compassion in their hearts would fail to condemn such mass slaughter. He also mentioned Sudan. It is time for good people to speak up and for others to take collective action against these regimes that have held the world hostage to their ideologies for far too long. A leader who fails to speak up is a failed one - the cost to humanity is too great to bear.
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Agreed, he was just being a good human being unlike some of the posters and the shite I'm reading.
 
There's a whole politics sub forum for the debates that have been aired in here

Pep is entitled to his view. Additionally, speaking out in support of one population doesn't automatically speak against another. People are just so determined to be pissed off with stuff.
 
Phil1 said:
Agreed, he was just being a good human being unlike some of the posters and the shite I'm reading.
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Can someone point out where he's on record as "...being a good human being..." about the oppression of Kurds in Syria. Or the 30,000 murdered in Iran recently. Or the plight of the Uighurs, the Rohingya, the Yazidis, the victims of the original Oct 7th massacre (which also involved the cold-blooded murder of men, women & children across the age range from babies to octogenarians.. Or the innocent people in Sudan and Yemen, killed by the people who pay by his wages.

Or is the "good human being" only bothered when it's Israel, or just possibly an out-and-out antisemite?
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Can someone point out where he's on record as "...being a good human being..." about the oppression of Kurds in Syria. Or the 30,000 murdered in Iran recently. Or the plight of the Uighurs, the Rohingya, the Yazidis, the victims of the original Oct 7th massacre (which also involved the cold-blooded murder of men, women & children across the age range from babies to octogenarians.. Or the innocent people in Sudan and Yemen, killed by the people who pay by his wages.

Or is the "good human being" only bothered when it's Israel, or just possibly an out-and-out antisemite?
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2022:

Asked about the Premier League's gesture of solidarity for Ukraine, the Manchester City boss said: "It's important but at the end it is just a gesture. All around the world personally and collective do something.

"Politicians can avoid these things. It happens because they are complete failures. It happens because they are not able to do it. It happens where innocent people are suffering. NATO and European nations are failures."

Elaborating on Zinchenko, he added: "It's concerning, as long as the war continues it gets worse and worse. He's involved incredibly in his country doing projects. He knows better than anyone else, he has family there. It's getting worse, this situation is 8, 9 days. Unfortunately it will be longer."

2024:



He's been consistently anti-war. I suspect there's little he could do to please you at this point, because you're not acting in good faith.

Making an accusation like that based on no evidence is despicable. If your position is that he's a hypocrite, well aren't we all? Those people who pay his wages own our football club, in case you hadn't noticed.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Can someone point out where he's on record as "...being a good human being..." about the oppression of Kurds in Syria. Or the 30,000 murdered in Iran recently. Or the plight of the Uighurs, the Rohingya, the Yazidis, the victims of the original Oct 7th massacre (which also involved the cold-blooded murder of men, women & children across the age range from babies to octogenarians.. Or the innocent people in Sudan and Yemen, killed by the people who pay by his wages.

Or is the "good human being" only bothered when it's Israel, or just possibly an out-and-out antisemite?
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He's speaking out against what he perceives as an important issue. I respect him for doing so.
You being on the opposite side of the fence, disagree with him which is your prerogative.
Expecting him to speak about every atrocity in the world isn't realistic.
 
He spoke of Gaza and Sudan and leaders across the world. Anyone on the side of humanity will rightfully condemn 72,000 dead Palestinian men, women and children as well as 1,200 innocent dead Israeli people. It is hard for me to grasp how so many people find it so hard to be compassionate about the loss of human life and to condemn leaders who allow it to happen, wherever they are from. Do you think that most families sat at home eating their dinner want their homes to be bulldozed or for other families to be bombed? Pep was speaking about human beings, and the damage done by political ogres.
 
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domalino said:
You can’t “keep” politics out of sport when it’s been political from day one.

This club was founded to keep working class men from joining gangs and getting blind drunk on the weekends. It’s been a sociopolitical endeavor from the beginning, and the same is true of almost all the biggest clubs and sporting rivalries in the country.

What people invariably mean when they say this is “keep politics I don’t like out of football”.
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That wasn’t @Fordyboy46 , it was me amending his post.
I was indirectly trying to imply keeping the thread for Guardiola in line with sport and it not becoming another Gaza/Israel political ping pong. How wrong was I?
 
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