Pep Guardiola - 2025/26

Blumooniac said:
We're closer to the end than the beginning. That much we can all agree on. The question is, who succeeds the King once the King is dead?

Put simply, when Pep decides to leave (he'll never be be sacked) who replaces our greatest manager, the greatest manager the game has ever seen?

Now that's a question...

I'm not clever enough to speculate but I'll try.

Vincent Kompany.

I'd trust him over anybody else and I'd trust Khaldoon to give him the time.
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Enrique
 
sh249 said:
It‘s genuinely mad to think that a Pep team could look like this. No settled system/formation. No structure. No patterns of play. No tempo. Struggling like fuck to play out from the back. No proper playmaker high up the pitch. Fair few players with limited technical skills / football intelligence.
Whether it was Pep or club-led, the decision, post-treble, to move towards something different has been a shit show. All it‘s really done is rob us of the edge Pep gave us for so long.
If we feel we absolutely must follow others in prioritizing running over technical ability and ‚transitions‘ over positional player, then we really need to go all in on it. We‘re stuck in no-man‘s land - not enough technical and tactical quality, yet we still look shit physically as well.
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What gets me is the lack of warriors Foden, Lewis, Gvardiol, Ait-Nouri, Gonzales, Savinho, Reijnders are all as weak as fuck.
 
thyer64 said:
Im pretty sure the manager says ok to these so called average players. So he has a responsibility there too.

In your scenario, we have no out and out striker. Who will put the ball in the back of the net?

If after 400mil + we can't seen an improvement, what will more players chucked in do?
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We did it with aplomb in the centurion season.
Our team has no balance, a veneer of quality and is in serious position of missing out on the top 4.
 
Tyg3r said:
Anyway I don't understand people saying Semenyo had played LW. Formation with the ball was clearly 4-2-2-2. And without ball flat 4-4-2.

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First half worked against Spurs back five. Second half they changed to back four in order to defend numerically our midfield. Pep didn't react.

I prefer wingers than overbooking the middle. If our wingbacks push up and loose the ball then defensive transition is always dangerous. Also wingbacks don't take on 1vs1 in attack.
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You can't realy restrict it to that it was mainly 4 1 3 2 but Silva could be found in a front 3 mid 3 or def 1 or 2 depending on where Rodri was.
Im not even getting started on alt nouri further forward covered by OReilly and nunes staying deeper to counter act any break. Semenyo and erling as a front 2 and khus and Guehi as 2 CBs were the only ones that really kept a position.

Keeper as well obviously:-)
 
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IrishBlueSince92 said:
Pep could finish 8th this year and I wouldn’t call for his head
He can leave when he wants

All I know is when he leaves we become the next Chelsea. Maresca or someone inferior comes in for a year then we chop and change managers every season and won’t get near winning a title for a while.

Spoilt self entitled fans need to think carefully
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Fookinell.
 
People saying recruitment isn’t up to scratch have a point but only to a certain extent. Marmoush-Good player but doesn’t have a role and Reijnders-A flop are two examples of this. But what about everyone else? The team were pathetic in the second half and were just as poor in the first but got away with it.
Saying we need top class players from elite sides says more about Pep than recruitment. PSG signed Vitinha from Wolves and Neves from Benefica. They weren’t coming from elite sides but Enrique improved them.
 
B\connellblue said:
Has he ever made a substitution that changed anything for the better? The Nico G sub and moving Nico O' Reilly to right back cost us a goal almost instantly. Foden did nothing , Reijnders ditto (had a couple of decent chances) Marmoush on far too late.
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Yes he has when he actually made those subs at the right time, but most of the time it's too late, he was taking the piss with that Marmoush sub today.
 
Blumooniac said:
We're closer to the end than the beginning. That much we can all agree on. The question is, who succeeds the King once the King is dead?

Put simply, when Pep decides to leave (he'll never be be sacked) who replaces our greatest manager, the greatest manager the game has ever seen?

Now that's a question...

I'm not clever enough to speculate but I'll try.

Vincent Kompany.

I'd trust him over anybody else and I'd trust Khaldoon to give him the time.
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Without a doubt, Kompany.
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
So you win 100 points, a treble, 4 titles in a row, all in the space of 8 seasons
Then you have 2 seasons where you are supposedly in transition, don’t win it but finish in the CL spots, and you think he should be sacked?
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If you think fining the top 4 is now enough for this club, and not winning a trophy, you should be sacked.
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
So you win 100 points, a treble, 4 titles in a row, all in the space of 8 seasons
Then you have 2 seasons where you are supposedly in transition, don’t win it but finish in the CL spots, and you think he should be sacked?
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no one wants him sacked, they want it to be his last season. Fresh ideas are needed
 
B\connellblue said:
Has he ever made a substitution that changed anything for the better? The Nico G sub and moving Nico O' Reilly to right back cost us a goal almost instantly. Foden did nothing , Reijnders ditto (had a couple of decent chances) Marmoush on far too late.
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Yeah i'm struggling to think of a single substitution in his almost a decade here that had any positive impact...
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