Pep - Manager of the Season 2017/18

What an embarrassment to the premier league if anyone other than Pep wins it, this also goes for pundits and press who thinks Burnley have been anything special, if you offered a free ticket for city or Burnley and both kicked off at the same time even the press and gobby ex players would go to the city match, all they want is to make out they are thinking out of the box
Don't forget it's all over the medals are won what else is there to keep them relevant.
Bellamy just needs to keep banging the drum for us because he never changes his admiration for the way we are playing.
 
Neil francis said:
What an embarrassment to the premier league if anyone other than Pep wins it, this also goes for pundits and press who thinks Burnley have been anything special, if you offered a free ticket for city or Burnley and both kicked off at the same time even the press and gobby ex players would go to the city match, all they want is to make out they are thinking out of the box
Don't forget it's all over the medals are won what else is there to keep them relevant.
Bellamy just needs to keep banging the drum for us because he never changes his admiration for the way we are playing.
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Burnley are 35 points behind us, could be over 40 by the end, that's a whole save your season in the prem, embarrassing doesn't come into it.
 
Did any of the other managers win the "Manager of the Month" - four months in succession for Pep - that alone should guarantee him the award.
 
Pep is absolutely going to win the award. There's really no point in arguing against the hypothetical that he doesn't.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
It'll be a travesty if anyone other that Guardiola wins this. There are managers doing well with limited budgets every year, and yet only when we win the league do people suddenly scramble around looking for anyone else to win it. In the past 15 years, it has only gone to a non title-winning manger 3 times, and 2 of those just happen to be when we won the league. Moyes has never won it despite finishing 4th with Everton and 5th and 6th multiple times. Nor Allardyce when he finished 6th with Bolton, or Hughes when he finished 6th with Blackburn. Yes Pellegrini wins the league at the first attempt and it goes to a manager who finished 11th. Fucking 11th!

Just for the record, he's a list of managers who didn't win it despite doing well with a relatively small team and the team who won the league that season.

03/04: Bobby Robson (5th with Newcastle)
04/05: David Moyes (4th with Everton), Sam Allardyce (6th with Bolton)
05/06: Mark Hughes (6th with Blackburn)
06/07: David Moyes (6th with Everton)
07/08: David Moyes (5th with Everton)
08/09: David Moyes (5th with Everton), Roy Hodgson (7th with Fulham)
10/11: Mark Hughes (8th with Fulham)
12/13: Moyes (6th with Everton), Steve Clarke (8th with West Brom)
14/15: Koeman (7th with Southampton),Garry Monk (8th with Swansea)
15/16: MOTS goes to Claudio Ranieri for winning the league.
16/17: Koeman (7th with Everton)

And the three times that MOTS hasn't gone to the title-winning manager.

09/10: Ancelloti. MOTS goes to Harry Redknapp for finishing 4th with Spurs (after years of investment to get there).
11/12: Mancini. MOTS goes to Alan Pardew for finishing 5th with Newcastle.
13/14: Pellegrini. MOTS goes to Tony Pulis for finishing 11th with Crystal Palace.

I wouldn't have a problem with Dyche winning it if there was a history of successful managers of underdogs winning it, but when Sir Baconface of Stoppage Time used to win it every year in the face of some great managerial performances from managers of smaller teams, then there's no way that a manager who's revolutionized the Premier League with his style of play should be losing to a manager who finished 7th with a fairly small team; and achievement that has been done many times before without receiving MOTS.

But it all comes down to the continued idea that us (and to a lesser extent Chelsea) haven't earned their titles. If we win, it's all down to the money we've spent, even when others have spent the same amount.
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Both of City's first two titles were achieved on the final day of the season after it had appeared that we had blown it. Chelsea also clinched the title on the final day in 09/10. Couldnt part of the reason for Mancini and Pellegrini failing to win be that the votes were cast before the final game? If the title race is still undecided the panel are more likely to vote for the manager of an outperforming smaller team rather than risk the derision that would ensue if they gave the award to the manager coming 2nd?

The fundamental problem with all of these awards is that they are voted for too soon. They should wait until the season is over.
 
A few in the media - particularly BT but a few at the Beeb aswell have really sponsored this Dyche thing - it’s a disgrace but clearly a few bitter Rags and Dippers think this is some kind of victory. I hope their pathetic plans come to fruition because it will just serve to push Pep on even more - so long as Pep feels he has something to prove - he will remain here. If it wasn’t Dyche they’d be going for Rafa Benitez - in fact they’d have another 3 or 4 lined up before they’d admit Pep is not only head and shoulders above anyone in the league - but his football philosophy is light years ahead of anything English football - including most of the clowns in the press - can possibly conceive - and their may be a clue as to why they want to sponsor Dyche. Can you imagine Fatty Custis trying to have a strategic conversation with Pep about anything?
 
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