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

samarasra said:
To be fair replacements for Kompany, Aguero, D Silva, Sane, Yaya, Zaba are not exactly knocking on our door and priced within the boundaries of FFP, especially at anything like a reasonable price. What would any of them have cost when at their peak. Should we buy the currently most expensive players in each of those positions, it won't guarantee anything, they may get injured like Mendy or Stones or Laporte, or turn out to be 1 or 2 season wonders being replaced as media darlings by another Haaland with multi million buy out clauses and long term contracts hastily attached after a few CL appearances. Fernandinho's birth cert. and the loss of defensive experience is a clue to his move, he cannot play 60 games in CM and every time he has to be rested the rhythm is upset again so maybe they decided he could do a job at CB and help Rodri on the pitch. A natural finisher like Aguero, who is brilliant but has always missed a lot of relatively easy chances would cost up to 200 million and even that wouldn't buy a young proven striker with his goals per game ratio. Also any proven player of their quality will want almost guaranteed weekly pitch time and competing at our level that is not feasible unless like now we have an injury crisis. Bravo was in the Copa America team of the tournament & keeper of the tournament in 2015 & 2016 with Chile and has a list of honours with Barcelona so he was not some unknown hopeful when signed and many keepers' of his experience would not be prepared to sit on the bench week after week so he was I think a very reasonable signing, especially with his knack of saving Liverpool penalties. What you say is valid but I think is the empty half of the glass when our current status puts it in perspective.
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So it's only Kompany, Zabba and YA YA, 2 of which left seasons ago, Kompany you can't buy a replacement for him in terms of on and off the pitch, the other 2 are legends but we have had a long time to replace them
 
Luddite_Blue said:
I agree and I don't think the answer is known yet. But in the summer I think EITHER Pep will extend his contract, bring in a new number 2 and revamp the squad OR Pep will leave.

It's been said on here that as a well run club we plan 18 months in advance. Reviewing in the summer would effectively be planning a year in advance with the leeway given because it's Pep and what he's done.

I don't think there's any way, though, that we'd get into a situation where Pep's just got a few months left on his contract with all the uncertainty and drift that can bring
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Totally agree.

If Pep resigns in the summer great, we rebuild the squad, freshen up the back room and go again, IF not, he will leave, he will not go into the final year and for that matter the club would and should not allow him to do so.

Despite what some people say on here, we do need a squad upgrade, major mistakes were made last summer in terms of recruitment.

Pep and Manchester City won't allow that to happen again, whatever happens the future is bright.
 
tommo74 said:
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
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Got you agree with you, we should never have bought Stones we should of bought a centre half who is good enough in your opinion. Need a world class keeper to sit on the bench most weeks and watch Ederson, someone like Neuer or Allison would of been ok. Should of bought a kompany replacement even if the right one for us was not available I'm sure if we had outbid utd and gone 90m on Maguire and £300000 grand a week we could of got him.
Definitely need a clone of Aguero so we don't have to bring anybody into the team who does not have exactly the same skill set as Kun. Thinking about it overall what has this Pep bloke ever done for us, he is destroying this club don't think we should wait till the end of the season we should dump him now.
 
tommo74 said:
So it's only Kompany, Zabba and YA YA, 2 of which left seasons ago, Kompany you can't buy a replacement for him in terms of on and off the pitch, the other 2 are legends but we have had a long time to replace them
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You will never find like for like replacements, especially for world class players and club legends like Kompany, Silva and Augero.
 
Academica said:
Got you agree with you, we should never have bought Stones we should of bought a centre half who is good enough in your opinion. Need a world class keeper to sit on the bench most weeks and watch Ederson, someone like Neuer or Allison would of been ok. Should of bought a kompany replacement even if the right one for us was not available I'm sure if we had outbid utd and gone 90m on Maguire and £300000 grand a week we could of got him.
Definitely need a clone of Aguero so we don't have to bring anybody into the team who does not have exactly the same skill set as Kun. Thinking about it overall what has this Pep bloke ever done for us, he is destroying this club don't think we should wait till the end of the season we should dump him now.
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There are plenty of CBs out there considerably better than what we had available.

We laughed at JFE when we had JFS missing in action for 2 seasons and now a third.

We had a player in Otamendi who was happy to leave last season, a player past his best and who is always going to make errors, we let him stay, and that decision along with several others has cost us.
We had the Captain whom defied age and injury to lead our team at the end of the season, the club may have been surprised at the timing of his exit, but they knew he needed to be replaced beacuse of his injury record a very long time ago.

Personally I would have moved Mahrez on, quality player, but never a City player in a million years. He simply does not fit into our team.
 
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Keeper! said:
There are plenty of CBs out there considerably better than what we had available.

We laughed at JFE when we had JFS missing in action for 2 seasons and now a third.

We had a player in Otamendi who was happy to leave last season, a player past his best and who is always going to make errors, we let him stay, and that decision along with several others has cost us.
We had the Captain whom defied age and injury to lead our team at the end of the season, the club may have been surprised at the timing of his exit, but they knew he needed to be replaced a very long time ago.

Personally I would have moved Mahrez on, quality player, but never a City player in a million years. He simply does not fit into our team.
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And you were saying all this at the end of last season after just winning a domestic treble were you.
 
Academica said:
And you were saying all this at the end of last season after just winning a domestic treble were you.
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Last season was magnificent the greatest domestic season in the history of our game, but that was last season, you regroup and go again, that is what makes great clubs.

Yes, I genuinely expected we would make several major changes to the playing staff.

Pep was going into his forth season with us, and his demands and intensity are well known, and as we have seen some players have reacted this season in terms of performance.

Not to bring in at the very least 1 CB was going to hurt us, we lost probably the best captain the club has ever had.

We have already experienced under Mancini that when we don't strengthen after a title success we drop our standards.

Injuries have hit us hard BUT the CB situation was always going to hurt us, Laporte apart our CB options are poor.
 
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