Pep to leave at the end of the season

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I won’t believe Pep will be leaving until an official club announcement.

I won’t believe it til I see him in Manchester airport Wetherspoons necking 10 pints of Stella and a full English waiting for the 6am Ryanair to Barcelona.

 

[Coatigan]

Do you live in 2013 mate?

No, why?

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Thomas Frank is the only manager I thought intelligent enough to understand what Pep was about and how to get a tune out of us. Unfortunately he's now tainted goods after Spuds.

 

[twosips]

I've just recorded a podcast with Jack Gaughan. We discussed Pep's exit. It answers pretty much any questions you may have on this.

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[IronsideKozuch]

Arteta? On the naughty step please.

Arteta is a fantastic football coach, its clear and obvious.

 

[johnny crossan]

This revisionism needs to stop ffs

 

[super_city_si]

Arteta is a fantastic football coach, its clear and obvious.

He’s a copycat. Took all pep’s ideas. Implemented them to a point then ran out of ideas how to adjust to match his personnel and hired a NFL play coach to blitz teams on set pieces. He’s a fraud. Doesn’t have any original ideas.

 

[cheekybids]

I didn't see that but he's right. One of those things was on the night of the game itseld, we'd played 3 games in 6 days and were very obviously dead on our feet. No doubt he's referring to some referee/VAR calls too.

They also refused us a late start to the season for the World Cup we played in.

 

[Coatigan]

I've just recorded a podcast with Jack Gaughan. We discussed Pep's exit. It answers pretty much any questions you may have on this.

That's a bold assumption

 

[cheekybids]

A guy I know that works at Blockbuster said Pep's just returned all his DvD's and paid his overdue fines in one go. It's happening.

He’s not cancelled his milk or papers…… there’s still a chance ;)

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

Emery is a good fit for how Villa play and has done brilliantly. He'd be a terrible fit for how we play.

But if he came We’d play how he wanted us to play?

 

[blueparrot]

Not really while his greatness is inarguable to say he is infallible is ridiculous, he himself on many ocassions has said he overthought it or played his faves, could u honestly say this season that our midfield could not have been improved if he didnt insist on shoehorning bernardo in at all costs, its not a knock on pep.

Nobody said he was infallible, to say he picked a team that he didn't think was the best for the job so he could pick favourites is just stupid. He never picked a team he didn't think was the best to win any game whether he got it right or didn't.Bernardo has been one of our best players this season

 

[bennyboy]

He’s a copycat. Took all pep’s ideas. Implemented them to a point then ran out of ideas how to adjust to match his personnel and hired a NFL play coach to blitz teams on set pieces. He’s a fraud. Doesn’t have any original ideas.

I would say he took all of George Grahams ideas.

 

[BillCarlisle]

He’s a copycat. Took all pep’s ideas. Implemented them to a point then ran out of ideas how to adjust to match his personnel and hired a NFL play coach to blitz teams on set pieces. He’s a fraud. Doesn’t have any original ideas.

I reckon that to qualify as a football genius you need to have the brain of a football genius. It's impossible to copy a football genius successfully unless you are a genius yourself. Arteta is living proof. His tactics are a million miles away from the Cruyff/Guardiola school of thought.

 

[SpeaksForItself]

emery messed up when coaching psg and arsenal, aston villa its his level, he botched a 4 goal advantage in the champions league ffs his thing only works in europa league. also he managed to not win the french league with psg

We'd also need to change our name to something like Manchester Devils, as Emery only has success with teams with 'vil' in their name.

 

[RayCTID]

I would say he took all of George Grahams ideas.

More Sam Allardyce

 

[halfcenturyup]

And now, the end is near..
Enzo I face, Maresca's bertin'..

My friend, I'll say it clear
We won the case, of which I'm certain.

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Arteta is a fantastic football coach, its clear and obvious.

I understand you’re laying some serious bait down here, so this isn’t necessarily aimed at you - more at the people who would very genuinely attempt to shoehorn Arteta in the category of greatness.

But two trophies in seven years - having outspent everyone in the English game in the process - is very far from fantastic.

And that’s before you even get to the style of football they play over there, which is absolutely horrific to watch.

If you gave Allardyce or Pulis the kind of budget Arteta has had access to, the net result would essentially be the same.

A wretched, vicious, pig ugly insult to the beautiful game.

 

[bennyboy]

More Sam Allardyce

Allardyce at Bolton was a far better watch than Arteta.'s gooners.

 

[Marvin.]

I have caved in and accepted that he's leaving although until the announcement is made, I will retain a small hope that he will stay. I don't think that makes much sense but my excuse is that this is emotional.

Pep is the greatest ever coach but he's also a very well rounded human who was easy to like. That's probably the secret of his success.