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

If this news is true then it's absolutely brilliant for the club, couldn't be happier.
 
blueparrot said:
Why does it matter if he thinks he needs more time, as long as we get to where he wants us. I think he was always going to stay more than 3 years, so if it's settled sooner all the better.
possibly it's a bigger job than he thought, possibly he just wanted to see how he settled, who knows.

What would be strange about that, just honest we can all see, the whole back line a centre midfield needs upgrading before he can even start playing the way he wants to play. It would be more surprising if he couldn't.
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I'm not saying he shouldn't extend, think he should always of been given 3 years minimum but it's not a fact that'll he'll turn us into a trophy winning machine. He may not win the league in say 5 years, then what? We keep him until he does? he transforms into Arsene Wenger? we finish 4th for the next 10 years?

Also no matter who you play in the backline, the high line is suicide in the premier league..There's not a backline in the world who would of stopped that Trouncing vs Leicester imo...Think Pep needs to adjust just as much as the team needs changing.
 
I think this is great news. One of the many digs thrown by the media over Pep's appointment is that he's only here for 3 years so he's not very committed to City. A contract extension takes that line away and stops halfwits like Richard Keys for speculating on whether he'll quit.
 
domalino said:
Pulling away from the high press because it's not effective against English teams is adapting.

Pulling the midfield back to make the team more compact and win more second balls is adapting.

Pushing Bravo and the defence further back because they're not quick enough to play a high line is adapting.


If you can't see that he's made a series of big adaptations to his usual team than I recommend actually looking for them instead of just regurgitating whatever some rent-a-gob on BT sports tells you. They are incredibly obvious changes he's made across the season, and he's even talked about them in interviews, there's no excuse for anyone who calls themselves a city fan believing the bullshit about him being stubborn.

Similarly, his constant changes aren't experimenting, that's more bullshit from pundits who don't know what they're talking about. He constantly rotated at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, when his teams were at their peak and he knew everything about them. Rotating players, tactics and formations isn't experimenting, it's adapting to the opposition and it's what has made him the best.
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The pundits wrongly point out what is wrong because it is easy, they always say it is our defence but they are completely wrong. The Everton game aside, we haven't exactly conceded a lot of goals, it isn't great but the other teams have conceded similar amounts, the real difference is they score far more. We are only the 5th best scoring team in the league and is that acceptable with the money we have spent along with one of the best strikers in the world? He doesn't need to adapt anything, what he needs to do is get us scoring again. It was exactly the same last year and a completely mystery.

The reason we are 5th is not due to losing 4-0 to Everton, it is due to drawing with Boro, Southampton, Everton at home and the big one, losing to Chelsea. Then you can throw in Everton yesterday, Leicester etc. Those draws and the loss against Chelsea are 12 points we should have on the board because they are all games we should of won but we didn't because we didn't take our chances.

Pep famously said at Barcelona that if they didn't win the league that year it would be the strikers/attackers fault, it is certainly true in this case as well.
 
I see Utd fans trying to recover from their own weekend of disappointment.

I'd still back our situation under Guardiola long term than their position under Mourinho.

We've just come to the end of the natural lifetime of this squad. Meanwhile at OT, Utd are still behind us despite an unbelievable sequence of refereeing decisions. Once again on Sunday I believe Rooney should have been sent off, and their goal was offisde. I believe something like 5 out of their last 7 goals have been offside

We need a run of 'luck' like that, but of course we wont get it because of who we are

I hope we Kompany can recover and Jesus/Sane/Sterling can give us a lift. We still have the most vibrant attacking line up in the Premiership with some good young players coming through.
 
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