Pep - Manager of the Season 2017/18

[waspish]

Pep will win it. They can’t be that bias the voters can they?!

 

[OB1]

To be fair Pep's not proven that he could succeed as manager of S****horpe yet, so he probably doesn't deserve the award.......

Quite.

Drives me mad when I hear people having the discussion about whether he could succeed with a pile of shite club and second rate players. I even heard a West Ham fan mutter something about that on Sunday. It's so irrelevant. Pep is that smart and knowledgeable that he probably could work wonders with a "small" team but he doesn't need to and why would he want to. Pep is the go to guy if you want to get top players playing beautiful football whilst winning trophies. He is the epitome of elite.

Whatever happens in our last three games, what he has achieved this season is truly special and goes way beyond simply having the most expensive squad around.

Roy Hodgson, for instance, has done a very good job getting Palace out of trouble but if you look at it closely - and I haven't - he's saved a team that should not have been in relegation trouble. They had a bad start but he's had time to get them out of the mire; he's not taken them to a position above where they necessarily should be. There's a raft of teams who are much of a muchness and he has taken points from them. They did manage to beat Chelsea but based on a quick look, I think they have taken all of seven points off the top 8 clubs. He's been a very experienced guy doing experienced guy things but he ain't a special guy doing special things; Pep is.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Pep will win it. They can’t be that bias the voters can they?!

No I think not. I just cannot see moty going to anyone except Pep. In fact if it does I wont be too fucked off because it will surely bring the whole issue to the forefront with journos and pundits. There is definate bias, WE all know, but I would like for the media to acknowledge it and see how much of an uphill battle this club faces against the dinosaur attitude of this country's press and media.

 

[Blue Hefner]

We can all sit her and talk about conspiracies, Pellgrini and Mancini not getting etc. But it is completely inconceivable that Pep does not win it. So much so, that the whole award will be brought into disrepute

Think about it:
100 points, assuming we get there
Most points
Most goals
Most consecutive wins

That is before we get started on the improvement of every single player, the style of football and the 'he can't do it in England' merchants

 

[TravisBickle]

We can all sit her and talk about conspiracies, Pellgrini and Mancini not getting etc. But it is completely inconceivable that Pep does not win it. So much so, that the whole award will be brought into disrepute

Think about it:
100 points, assuming we get there
Most points
Most goals
Most consecutive wins

That is before we get started on the improvement of every single player, the style of football and the 'he can't do it in England' merchants

Probably broken more records in one season then most top managers manage in their whole career!
They can’t possibly choose anyone else.

 

[supercity88]

Quite.

Drives me mad when I hear people having the discussion about whether he could succeed with a pile of shite club and second rate players. I even heard a West Ham fan mutter something about that on Sunday. It's so irrelevant. Pep is that smart and knowledgeable that he probably could work wonders with a "small" team but he doesn't need to and why would he want to. Pep is the go to guy if you want to get top players playing beautiful football whilst winning trophies. He is the epitome of elite.

Whatever happens in our last three games, what he has achieved this season is truly special and goes way beyond simply having the most expensive squad around.

Roy Hodgson, for instance, has done a very good job getting Palace out of trouble but if you look at it closely - and I haven't - he's saved a team that should not have been in relegation trouble. They had a bad start but he's had time to get them out of the mire; he's not taken them to a position above where they necessarily should be. There's a raft of teams who are much of a muchness and he has taken points from them. They did manage to beat Chelsea but based on a quick look, I think they have taken all of seven points off the top 8 clubs. He's been a very experienced guy doing experienced guy things but he ain't a special guy doing special things; Pep is.

Couldn't agree more. Pundits in this country seem to think our league is harder than any other. It isn't. La Liga is harder because their teams consistently perform in European competition to the latter stages. If our league was so good and strong then we would succeed more often in Europe. We don't because actually we are a way off thr likes of Barca and Real in terms of consistent top performances.

Pep has closed the gap and next season we could be the best team in Europe with a young team bolstered by potentially final seasons at the club from Kompany, Fernandinho, Silva and Aguero.

Hodgson has done fuck all with palace. Zaha has saved them. He plays Palace might win. He doesn't they lose. He missed the first 9 or so games after being injured in their first game of the season I think and when he returned they started to win points.

Dyche has done well with Burnley but Ranieri did better with Leicester and didn't spend much money either.

Pep could break prem records with this team. Considering this time last year the league had found him out and his style of play couldn't succeed here, that isn't fucking bad.

 

[Leto]

Quite.

Drives me mad when I hear people having the discussion about whether he could succeed with a pile of shite club and second rate players. I even heard a West Ham fan mutter something about that on Sunday. It's so irrelevant. Pep is that smart and knowledgeable that he probably could work wonders with a "small" team but he doesn't need to and why would he want to. Pep is the go to guy if you want to get top players playing beautiful football whilst winning trophies. He is the epitome of elite.

Whatever happens in our last three games, what he has achieved this season is truly special and goes way beyond simply having the most expensive squad around.

Roy Hodgson, for instance, has done a very good job getting Palace out of trouble but if you look at it closely - and I haven't - he's saved a team that should not have been in relegation trouble. They had a bad start but he's had time to get them out of the mire; he's not taken them to a position above where they necessarily should be. There's a raft of teams who are much of a muchness and he has taken points from them. They did manage to beat Chelsea but based on a quick look, I think they have taken all of seven points off the top 8 clubs. He's been a very experienced guy doing experienced guy things but he ain't a special guy doing special things; Pep is.

So true. It's such a none argument when people say 'he was in charge of Barcelona, Bayern and City, until he can get success with a smaller team he hasn't proved anything.'

Does that mean until Jeff Bezos runs a local cash and carry instead of Amazon he hasn't proved himself as a top businessman? It's ridiculous.

 

[inchy14]

So true. It's such a none argument when people say 'he was in charge of Barcelona, Bayern and City, until he can get success with a smaller team he hasn't proved anything.'

Does that mean until Jeff Bezos runs a local cash and carry instead of Amazon he hasn't proved himself as a top businessman? It's ridiculous.

You wouldn't have asked Michaelangelo to pop round and paint the kitchen would you??

 

[OB1]

Couldn't agree more. Pundits in this country seem to think our league is harder than any other. It isn't. La Liga is harder because their teams consistently perform in European competition to the latter stages. If our league was so good and strong then we would succeed more often in Europe. We don't because actually we are a way off thr likes of Barca and Real in terms of consistent top performances.

Pep has closed the gap and next season we could be the best team in Europe with a young team bolstered by potentially final seasons at the club from Kompany, Fernandinho, Silva and Aguero.

Hodgson has done fuck all with palace. Zaha has saved them. He plays Palace might win. He doesn't they lose. He missed the first 9 or so games after being injured in their first game of the season I think and when he returned they started to win points.

Dyche has done well with Burnley but Ranieri did better with Leicester and didn't spend much money either.

Pep could break prem records with this team. Considering this time last year the league had found him out and his style of play couldn't succeed here, that isn't fucking bad.

I think the Premier League is hard(est) to win but it is not the best league technically speaking.

Pep could turn City into genuinely the best club side in the world and is on track to do so, imo; that would be a huge, nay - massive, achievement even with the financial backing City have.

I've said before that Dyche has done what quite a lot of managers have previously achieved and produced a hard working well organised side, which can and does sometimes lead to better than expected results but is still not anything very special or new. Big Sam, Mark Hughes, Tony Pullis just to name a few guys who have managed in the league this season have done before. Pep is doing things that have never been done before in this country and now has three games to commit all sorts of debates to the dirt.

 

[OB1]

You wouldn't have asked Michaelangelo to pop round and paint the kitchen would you??

I wouldn't have a fucking turtle in the house let alone paint the kitchen.