Pep's contract situation | 2 year extension confirmed! (pg1817)

youngbob said:
Don't think it takes three years to rebuild this side. Two tops.

Pep built his own team from the ground up in about six months in his first season, it just took a full season with it on the pitch for it to fully bear fruit. From February 1st, 2017 onwards (six months after Pep's game) we lost two league games in an entire calendar year and eventually won the league with 100 points. And that was starting from Pellegrini's last season of 4th place, 66 points, and our most fragile squad post-ADUG takeover.

By the time Pellegrini left City his strongest line-up was:

Hart
Sagna, Kompany, Otamendi, Clichy
Fernandinho, Fernando
Navas, De Bruyne, D. Silva
Aguero

The team Pep won (most of the) 18 games on the trot with was:

Ederson
Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Delph
De Bruyne, Fernandinho, D. Silva
Sterling, Aguero, Sane

In the space of 15 months Pep only changed five players to the starting XI but it was all he needed to shift the mentality and success of the entire club. Despite what people say about the players Pellegrini left for Pep (on paper), the situation was bloody dire and we all remember what that 15/16 season was like. What Pep's currently got to work with is far, far superior to the team he was given when Pellegrini finally let go in the summer of 2016.

There's no reason why, on the opening day of next season, our starting line-up can't be roughly similar but vastly improved in terms of productivity and efficiency. Fuck, even with the current crop of players available, if we get any of the key names back that we're missing then the situation immediately improves. Rebuilds aren't about changing all eleven players in your strongest team and it won't take Pep three years to do it.

Ederson
[solid new RB], Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol
Rodri
[creative new AM], Foden
Savinho, Haaland, [exciting new LW]

Two years would be more than enough for Pep to completely change the future of this club for after he's gone, but even renewing for only one year would definitely allow him ample opportunity to set this team up so that his successor can keep the good years coming. We'll definitely drop a level when Pep goes but there's no reason why he can't put us in a position to replicate what we managed between 2011 and 2014 - and he'll only need an extra year to do it imo.
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Great post. Although I thought you might have included your namesake Oscar Bobb in that first XI! I really think that Pep will not want to leave things as they are now. He will want to do one more rebuild to leave the club in a strong position for the new manager, a bit like Klopp did with Liverpool. We don’t want an example like Fergie. For this reason I think we will have at least 2 more years of Pep with maybe an assistant manager ready to takeover or someone outside ready to step in. In some respects our current problems make it more likely he will stay.
 
Lock the gates and don't get Baldy leave.

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Platt Lane veteran said:
Pep owes us nothing, but he has a responsibility here. Commit to a rebuild, meaning 3 years minimum, or leave with his head held high. A 1 year extension just kicks the can down the road. We’d be in exactly the same position in 12 months.
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I'm not sure announcing he's leaving, after 4 defeats in a row would really count as a head held high moment.
 
Sure I read somewhere he signed his last few contracts around this time of year, really don't see him announcing he's leaving after 4 defeats on the bounce, going to be an interesting few weeks I reckon
 
wolviedinho said:
His contract situation hasn’t changed since he arrived. It’s not the problem at all.
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Leaving or staying, one year, five or none, announcement or silence.. we still need to get through this season and current injury bottleneck.
 
ProofMCFC said:
Why’s that?
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Because it looks like people here have already given up. And are more focused on having something to be excited about next season and summer transfer window, than caring about how we win the next game. With some two thirds of the season left.

That's why.
 
Pep: "This is sport. Sport is not always sunrises. It is not always good moments.

Today in the press conference I was asked if it was the end of the era. I know people want that. I smell it for many, many years.

What we have done in these years, people have said it’s so difficult, but if somebody would like to beat us it is going to happen because in the next 50 years we're not going to win all the Premier Leagues. It's impossible."

"We are not able to do 90 minutes right now.

We played a really good first half, but we were not able to sustain the rhythm in the second half.

We lost again so [we will] clear our heads [in the] international break and hopefully our players come back fit.

When the players come back, I don't have any doubt that we will be back to our best."
 
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