Pep Wants Nutrition Expert

franksinatra said:
To be honest I do not care less if they eat pizzas or wedges as I do not know the contents of the pizza/wedges or how they were cooked. The most important thing is a professionally qualified nutitionist is overseeing there diet and refuelling after the game. I very much doubt a nutritionist who was analysing saliva/blood providing detailed regimes of minerals and vitamin requirements for individual players would sign off allowing pizza/wedges if it was to the detriment of the players.
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Give me nutritionist over blood doping any day.
 
A lot of clubs "Re fuel" on pizza, wedges, chicken pieces etc, the idea being to to get carbs back into the body quickly after a game.
Getting players to eat a "Proper" meal post match is very difficult as most simply want to get changed and get away from the stadium.
 
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valleyblue said:
A lot of clubs "Re fuel" on pizza, wedges, chicken pieces etc, the idea being to to get carbs back into the body quickly after a game.
Getting players to eat a "Proper" meal post match is very difficult as most simply want to get changed and get away from the stadium.
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Its not really what the players want though.....the sooner they realise with all that money comes resposibility and some minor sacrifice the better....far too little about the club these days !!!
 
mscenterh750 said:
It's funny this thread should pop up. I currently work with a bloke, who had a part time job delivering pizza for dominos. We were chatting a few weeks ago about football, and he said that he delivered pizzas to a lot of footballers, and one was our own Vincent Kompany. He told me that Kompany would have 10 pizzas! a visit delivered at a time (by the bloke I was talking with). I found this staggering given the profession that our captain is in, and in part can see why he spends so much time on the treatment table, if this is what he's subjecting his body to.
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I'm sure only just 8 or 9 of the pizzas were for him, though :)
 
@City Glory While Others Fade - I don't disagree with you I'm just pointing out the fact that a lot of clubs re fuel in this way.
I have tried to implement healthier refuelling at several clubs, with players having to sign to demonstrate that they have attended the post match meal.
I have seen players pick a piece of fruit, sign their name and leave! Most want to get away and enjoy a meal with their wives / families.
 
valleyblue said:
@City Glory While Others Fade - I don't disagree with you I'm just pointing out the fact that a lot of clubs re fuel in this way.
I have tried to implement healthier refuelling at several clubs, with players having to sign to demonstrate that they have attended the post match meal.
I have seen players pick a piece of fruit, sign their name and leave! Most want to get away and enjoy a meal with their wives / families.
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Well it's tough on them having to spend so much time at work, on such a shitty wage.
 
adrianr said:
My first question would be why on earth did we not have one already? Do we not have designs of being the biggest most successful club in the world? Did it really take Pep to come along to tell everyone diet is really important to performance of top level athletes?
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Thats exactly what I thought
 
mavsmcfc said:
Pizza is fucking delicious so since the players are getting paid millions, they're not allowed to have any :p
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Actually - we always talks about the great life of that millionaires... But if a footballer really lives the professional life he should it does not look that great anymore.

Stay on the healthy side with the food, go early to bed, do not go partying, no alcohol... - come early to training session to individually prepare with stretching etc. - extra training sessions to work on your weaknesses, tactical hours with the manager, meet & great with partners of the club or their guests...

The schedule of the real top players in the top clubs include a lot of journeys and time in planes and on the road (Staying in five star hotels in e.g. Barcelona for two nights might sound great - not if you have to be there, aren't allowed to leave the house etc.) - about 7 weeks each year on trip with the national team where you have to live on the rules and the schedule of your team manager and do not (or rarely) see friends and family and a lot of marketing dates for club and your own brand.

And - being always watched when you are in the open.
 
bluebrickroad said:
Strange how all you Tunnel Cam viewers watched the trolley loaded with pizza and other goodies being wheeled into the dressing room after each home game, but never bothered to make any comment about it until now.
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Very true - the only thing I would say looking at that trolley it didn't look as though the pizza was homemade - nutritionally wise there is a world of difference between a domino style pizza and one made on the streets of Rome! The main issue is always what happens on the pitch, and I don't think there is any doubt that certain players' fitness slipped during the time from Mancini to Pellegrini.
 
Maldeika said:
Actually - we always talks about the great life of that millionaires... But if a footballer really lives the professional life he should it does not look that great anymore.

Stay on the healthy side with the food, go early to bed, do not go partying, no alcohol... - come early to training session to individually prepare with stretching etc. - extra training sessions to work on your weaknesses, tactical hours with the manager, meet & great with partners of the club or their guests...

The schedule of the real top players in the top clubs include a lot of journeys and time in planes and on the road (Staying in five star hotels in e.g. Barcelona for two nights might sound great - not if you have to be there, aren't allowed to leave the house etc.) - about 7 weeks each year on trip with the national team where you have to live on the rules and the schedule of your team manager and do not (or rarely) see friends and family and a lot of marketing dates for club and your own brand.

And - being always watched when you are in the open.
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Exactly. Being a professional athlete is hard work - if you're doing it right. But they get paid a lot of money to do that so I don't think they're complaining too much.
 
Maldeika said:
Actually - we always talks about the great life of that millionaires... But if a footballer really lives the professional life he should it does not look that great anymore.

Stay on the healthy side with the food, go early to bed, do not go partying, no alcohol... - come early to training session to individually prepare with stretching etc. - extra training sessions to work on your weaknesses, tactical hours with the manager, meet & great with partners of the club or their guests...

The schedule of the real top players in the top clubs include a lot of journeys and time in planes and on the road (Staying in five star hotels in e.g. Barcelona for two nights might sound great - not if you have to be there, aren't allowed to leave the house etc.) - about 7 weeks each year on trip with the national team where you have to live on the rules and the schedule of your team manager and do not (or rarely) see friends and family and a lot of marketing dates for club and your own brand.

And - being always watched when you are in the open.
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Retire at 35 (if you want to wait that long) have a bucket load of cash, draw your footy pension and have any life you want.

Still stay 5*, still turn left at the plane door, still have your friends that were really your friends and as long as you don't do anything stupid the press will soon forget about you. Who would remember Owen and McManaman if they weren't the twats on TV?

As Milner said, I've got plenty of time to have a drink when I've finished football.
 
No read much of the thread but it seems a given that Pep will want the players eating at the stadium after matches. Whether pizza will be entirely off the menu remains to be seen but it might be. IIRC, the whole point of eating soon after the game is to do with recovery time.

Don't know if City have a nutritionist on board but the food served at the training ground, which the website has done features on is quite clearly meant to be healthy in design. Didn't they post a picture of lots of tasty looking lean chicken breasts very recently?
 
Rolee said:
Yeah, the fat bastard, no more pizza for Wilf

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ll-news/man-city-wilfried-bony-dance-11556014
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Ah but folks Bony is hiding the fat behind the fact he does kick ups while walking out of the changing rooms every day to impress Pep.
Yes we get it Wilfred,you can keep the ball up,shame you cant do fck all else with it.

Pep got a Nutrition Expert in at Bayern after he saw them eating Cream buns etc.I wonder what some of our lot have been eating.
 
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