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

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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

Pep loves it at City and has the support of the board and fans, hopefully an extension to his contract is pending.

 

[samarasra]

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.

Pep's English is good but not always precise in the words he uses but the reality is he will leave when he or the club, separately or jointly think it is right, personally or for the club, just like Txiki or Arteta or even the Sheikh, that is how it is. Hopefully in the meantime we can get the very best from them and they continue to build solid foundations for the future. Like Karen I take Pep at face value "it sounds good", maybe tomorrow at 8.00 pm not, who knows.

 

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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.

biggest load of rubbish I’ve ever read - well, maybe not as there’s a lot on here.

typical fan with short memory. Already forgotten the fact that we won every domestic trophy last year; back to back league cup & PL; 198 points over 2 years.

However - a blip, caused mainly by injuries to at least 3 key players has left us struggling in the league. Despite this, we’re in the semi final of league cup. Last 16 of CL & still with slight chance of winning league or coming second.

and it’s all Pep’s fault.

 

[tommo74]

To be fair we have dropped bollocks, stones not good enough in my opinion a lot of money spunked on an average player, bravo never a number 1 keeper, Kompany never signed a replacement, aguero natural finisher, no back up in place if he is injured, and don't say Jesus as they are completely different players, if we are so savvy why is our best ball.winning midfield player playing centre half

 

[SWP COME HOME!!]

Only 86 posts in 10 years but that one was a classic! Well said!

 

[SWP COME HOME!!]

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.

Helps if I include the quote

 

[vincent]

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.

Ornstein has been peddling the ‘my source says Pep is leaving at the end of this season’ for a few weeks now. Sounds like it’s complete bollox and click bait nonsense from the Athletic.

 

[Ric]

Those quotes sound promising, but I still think he’ll leave at the end of next season personally. I hope not, obviously.

 

[mccity]

Ornstein has been peddling the ‘my source says Pep is leaving at the end of this season’ for a few weeks now. Sounds like it’s complete bollox and click bait nonsense from the Athletic.

I was always a tad unsure of Sam Lee, but I thought he acted in good faith. But since he's started buddying up with Ornstein I've become suspicious of the pair.

 

[samarasra]

Helps if I include the quote

Hopefully your junior namesake becomes 1 of the graduates ! .