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

[Keeper!]

Expect him to sign an extension to his contract this summer.

Pep is being backed to the hilt.

Any news on his mate Tixix? there was talk last summer of him moving sideways and a new 1st team Director of Football coming in.

 

[Sheriff Fatman]

Missing out on CL/EL has done wonders for Chelsea and Liverpool.

I know that is tongue in cheek but it can't be any part of the plan, surely.

 

[GortonBlue62]

Thank God you're not in any position of authority in City.

Agreed.

But have you anything concrete to say about my points or are you just hoping for divine intervention?

 

[domalino]

This thread has really brought some nutters out.

If I was the Sheikh I would be looking around for a replacement already.

I mean Jesus H Christ.

 

[Jazzman]

Changing the team every single week isn't adapting it's called experimenting

Well he didn't actually change the team from the Hammers to the Everton game (bar Bravo), so I think we can say the disaster did not happen because of tinkering.

 

[Benarbia]

Well he didn't actually change the team from the Hammers to the Everton game (bar Bravo), so I think we can say the disaster did not happen because of tinkering.

He changed the keeper and unsettled the team after they looked reasonably solid albeit against a terrible West Ham

 

[inchy14]

The end of the season is a good time to call it.

One season to change it round!! Fuck me have you not seen us the play in the 2 years before Pep arrived?

Simeone will be available if we decide to move to a manager with both feet on the ground, no philosophy and a winning mentality.

And he'll want and need at least a season to change round what Pep started, and will want us playing more negative stuff than Mourinho would, plus if you think we get a rough ride from the FA now......

The comparison with Conte is valid.

No it' not, hes got a championship winning side from 20 months previously and has just added a CH to it, struggled like fuck to start with and has managed to change it round.

If Pep gets it right it'll be great. If he doesn't, no problem, we get 'Project Barcelona' out of our system and move on.

It's not project Barca but it is trying to get an identity throughout the club so that everyone knows whats expected form them, from the U12's up.

Anyone who thinks the current first team situation is acceptable is wrong.

No one does, but some of us see mitigating circumstances like an old over the hill set of players who couldn't be all moved out in one window.

Anyone who thinks the future is bright just because we've got Pep is wrong.

Again nobody does, but we'll give him a chance and the correct tools to do it.

Come on Pep. Come on City.

Great isn't quite the word I would use to describe the performances against Everton , Saints and Boro in fairness.

Check Koemans comments after the Everton game, best display i've seen in all honesty.

We won the first six playing some good football without dominating like Liverpool v Watford for example and Chelsea v a number of mid table teams they have wiped the floor with this season.

Since then apart from some spurts its been a downhill spiral and 7-3-5 with some shockers in that lot tells us where the squad is currently as has been the case for over 3 years now.

With the poor window over the summer addressing none of our issues its nailed on we will finish further behind the winners of the premiership this year than last and most likely outside the top four Pep or no Pep.

To date despite his many mistakes he has done about as well as the objective would expect.

5/6th is about where you would expect the club to finish.

 

[Jazzman]

He changed the keeper and unsettled the team after they looked reasonably solid albeit against a terrible West Ham

I don't think you can blame everything on Bravo though. If anything I think we have seen how small the difference between success and failure is when trying to play Pep-football.

 

[GortonBlue62]

It sure is, consistently negative.

You complained in the Arsenal post-match thread about us underachieving.

You moaned in the Barcelona post-match thread about squad rotation

You have literally nothing good, nor positive, to post and make it your business to piss on everyone's parade. Here look, you're doing it again in this thread too!



Your definition of a great manager is irrelevant.



Which kind of manager you prefer is irrelevant.



It's not being "released", it's being leaked by Tolmie who is a proven ITK on this board. You can feel free to take it with a pinch of salt, indeed some here do appear to be quite salty over it, but he has legitimate sources in the club and is well placed to post something like this and for it to be factual. That's why it hasn't been taken down.

We are underachieving.
My 'definitions' are just opinions; like everything else posted on a forum; they are no more relevant or irrelevant than anyone else's.
At the match I support the team; negativity has no place in the stadium (home or away).
On a forum I'm entitled to give an opinion.
My opinions differ from yours - your problem not mine.
My opinions are based on the evidence we are being presented with; yours seem to be based on nothing more than hope and blind faith.

 

[geoff clipp]

The reality is that Conte also took over a side that was built to pretty much play the way he wanted anyway and had done so very effectively the year before last (where they downed tools because the Special Prick). They'd already really done their core rebuild, with Costa, Hazard, Willian, Matic, Azpilicueta etc, they only needed a few key pieces to make that a Conte team (David Luiz, Kante, bringing Moses in from the cold). Pep has inherited a squad that doesn't really fit any gameplan as it's so old and the core pieces aren't up to it anymore. I think it's a lot more comparable to when AVB took over Chelsea and had that old, no longer functioning spine of Cech/Terry/Lampard/Drogba that needed flushing out to let a new spine grow. We at least have a lot of potentially key pieces in place for the team to built around, but they need time to settle and grow into it. In the meantime we are still relying on the old guard, who time and again have proven they can't consistently be relied on anymore.

I'd probably give Conte a little bit more credit but that aside I mostly agree with you.

That does raise some serious questions regarding our recruitment though doesn't it. We brought in a director of football whose main task it seems was to ensure we brought in Guardiola and try and replicate the Barcelona blueprint (not an idea I've ever felt totally comfortable with). It is a little bit odd that we didn't make the upgrades required particularly in defence and CM in time for his arrival. We probably knew 3 years ago that Guardiola was going to be our manager by this season. Chelsea can't say the same about Conte and yet he has a squad more suited to him than our manager does. I'm not a Txiki basher (I don't think ive ever even commented on him before) but when you look at it like that there's been some mismanagement somewhere along the line.