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

[chesterbells]

10 years to the day since we sacked Hughes!

So let's enjoy the Catalan genius whilst he's here however long that might be without worrying about what happens next.

This.

 

[Saddleworth2]

For me... Pep does as he will. He can get any opening in world football due to his resume.

It seems that Pep has left top-top managerial positions in spite of ownership dearly wishing him to stay when mostly this occurs;
1) Management disagreements emerge on signings;
2) Management pressure occurs, however subtley, making the team's failures seem the fault of Pep;
3) Complacence/No foreseeable upward trend - according to Pep's biographers, Pep will leave a club if possible, regardless of past/recent success, if he feels that he cannot motivate his side to new and better successes.

I think that 1-3 above aren't at all issues currently at City - so I hope/expect that Pep will be amenable to extending his contract.

Reason 3 is the one that will define when he has had enough.

 

[Semper aggressus]

My issue is the shit season part and how you think it so easy to just sign anyone.

You sound like you were not around in the 90s.

As for utd who gives a fuck what they do

It seems to be easy for utd to sign players who would benefit us. Doesn't always work out well for them, luckily, but so far I can think of RvP, Pogba, Fred, Sanchez, and Maguire we were after but chose them. Apart from van Persie I'm really fucking relieved too, but at the time missing out pissed me off. Hopefully Haaland turns out as shit as the rest!

I was around unfortunately, it was dire. That's why I want us to make the most of being supposedly the second most valuable sports team in the world right now, and put our foot on the necks of rags and scousers while we have the chance, don't rest on our laurels ever.

I only give a fuck in that anything positive for utd is fucking annoying.

 

[blueparrot]

It seems to be easy for utd to sign players who would benefit us. Doesn't always work out well for them, luckily, but so far I can think of RvP, Pogba, Fred, Sanchez, and Maguire we were after but chose them. Apart from van Persie I'm really fucking relieved too, but at the time missing out pissed me off. Hopefully Haaland turns out as shit as the rest!

I was around unfortunately, it was dire. That's why I want us to make the most of being supposedly the second most valuable sports team in the world right now, and put our foot on the necks of rags and scousers while we have the chance, don't rest on our laurels ever.

I only give a fuck in that anything positive for utd is fucking annoying.

Going off the last 6 years it obviously doesn’t matter does it.

 

[kaz7]

It seems to be easy for utd to sign players who would benefit us. Doesn't always work out well for them, luckily, but so far I can think of RvP, Pogba, Fred, Sanchez, and Maguire we were after but chose them. Apart from van Persie I'm really fucking relieved too, but at the time missing out pissed me off. Hopefully Haaland turns out as shit as the rest!

I was around unfortunately, it was dire. That's why I want us to make the most of being supposedly the second most valuable sports team in the world right now, and put our foot on the necks of rags and scousers while we have the chance, don't rest on our laurels ever.

I only give a fuck in that anything positive for utd is fucking annoying.

RVP is the only one out of that list that we really missed out on,the others are shit,you can add falco as well,you seem obsessed with spending money,we only buy who fits and not who costs the most,the rags are shite so why has chucking money at individuals been positive for them?

 

[kaz7]

Pep Guardiola: "I have one more year and always I have to deserve to extend my contract. Managers, we have to get results, at this club you have to win. In football, the situation changed a lot, managers today, even in this country, they change a lot..."

“In just four or five months, how many managers have been sacked? So that's why we have to be patient and do our job. We still have six months, plus 12 months, so a lot of time, so we have patience, be have an incredible relationship with the board."

“I said many times how incredible, what a good time I have here, and I would like to stay as long as possible. So that is my desire, but I will only be sure if it's the best for the club that they want me to stay longer..."

"So it will be five years with one club, in this competition, this league, it has many many years, so that's why it's important to be sure the decision is perfect for both sides. That's why there's no rush, it's not finishing in three or four months..."

"The club is working perfectly in all departments, so it's not a problem, honestly."

Sounds good

 

[davek1808]

Pep Guardiola: "I have one more year and always I have to deserve to extend my contract. Managers, we have to get results, at this club you have to win. In football, the situation changed a lot, managers today, even in this country, they change a lot..."

“In just four or five months, how many managers have been sacked? So that's why we have to be patient and do our job. We still have six months, plus 12 months, so a lot of time, so we have patience, be have an incredible relationship with the board."

“I said many times how incredible, what a good time I have here, and I would like to stay as long as possible. So that is my desire, but I will only be sure if it's the best for the club that they want me to stay longer..."

"So it will be five years with one club, in this competition, this league, it has many many years, so that's why it's important to be sure the decision is perfect for both sides. That's why there's no rush, it's not finishing in three or four months..."

"The club is working perfectly in all departments, so it's not a problem, honestly."

Sounds good

Sounds very promising.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

It seems to be easy for utd to sign players who would benefit us. Doesn't always work out well for them, luckily, but so far I can think of RvP, Pogba, Fred, Sanchez, and Maguire we were after but chose them. Apart from van Persie I'm really fucking relieved too, but at the time missing out pissed me off. Hopefully Haaland turns out as shit as the rest!

I was around unfortunately, it was dire. That's why I want us to make the most of being supposedly the second most valuable sports team in the world right now, and put our foot on the necks of rags and scousers while we have the chance, don't rest on our laurels ever.



Did they choose United or did they choose the extra money.

I only give a fuck in that anything positive for utd is fucking annoying.

 

[mccity]

Pep Guardiola: "I have one more year and always I have to deserve to extend my contract. Managers, we have to get results, at this club you have to win. In football, the situation changed a lot, managers today, even in this country, they change a lot..."

“In just four or five months, how many managers have been sacked? So that's why we have to be patient and do our job. We still have six months, plus 12 months, so a lot of time, so we have patience, be have an incredible relationship with the board."

“I said many times how incredible, what a good time I have here, and I would like to stay as long as possible. So that is my desire, but I will only be sure if it's the best for the club that they want me to stay longer..."

"So it will be five years with one club, in this competition, this league, it has many many years, so that's why it's important to be sure the decision is perfect for both sides. That's why there's no rush, it's not finishing in three or four months..."

"The club is working perfectly in all departments, so it's not a problem, honestly."

Sounds good

Sam Lee & David Ornstein's joint analysis: It is clear from this Pep is leaving. Reading between the lines when he says he stays it is clear that he wants to leave. Subscribe to The Athletic.

 

[samarasra]

Pep's model is buying a new player costing over £50m for every position that is under-performing,

He can't do that for ever, and complained at the start of the season the cub could not afford Maguire, obvious Mourinho like did going on about the quality of eggs. After that complaint he had lost it.

Give any manger £50m+ to spend on players to improve a good quad and most will do well, but how many of the Walker and Mendy types have gone backwards under him? Stones still can't defend, Rodri is like playing Vonk in midfield, not suited to the team. Mahrez has shown a few sparks but not much. Too many nad signings and one whi have declined under the manager after starting well.

An extension needs to be earned, it would be daft giving him now and then paying it all off in the summer. 2 good seasons 2 underachieving ones, and in the first he rested players against united and huddersfield which gave united a trophy.

How did he ever manage to win 4 trophies in a season, back to back titles, lose top players to injury or retirement and still make the Carabao Cup semi-final, Champions League last 16, and 3rd in the PL. Have you some new equally successful manager in mind ready to leap to our assistance and win all domestic titles and CL in 1 season ?. City of course could afford Maguire, what they were not prepared to do was pay 30 odd million more than they valued him at, any more than Sanchez & Fred before him. Was it his fault for not foreseeing long term injuries to Stones or Laporte. City recognise that football goes in cycles , there are periods of transition, 3/4 trophies per year is fantasy football, they try to put an evolving squad together not quick fix panic buying of the latest media hyped "next Messi or Ronaldo or Beckenbaur". Mainly it is not Pep's model it is the Club's model that is relevant he is 1 important partner in a structure that decides who and how and why certain players are bought or sold. The Academy is also evolving, do you realise how many young players at top academies never get to play professional football, the statistics are amazing, if we get 2 or 3 PL squad players from the Academy in the next 5 years, while still competing at the level we have been in recent years, we will be way above average. I've seen far too high a turnover of managers since Joe Mercer's glory years in desperate searches for instant success, we now have a set up that works better than any other club, they try to copy us. We are not perfect, Pep is human, sometimes the errors he sees are not the errors we see, so unless you have an alternative, let the club do what it has done with 3 consecutive managers, build teams for consistent success. Whatever about Jose's eggs, I prefer the old blues lyrics "you don't miss your water till your well runs dry" and I don't want to see our well drained because of a short term drop in our performances.