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

[berryblue]

lets be honest if he has lost his love of the game then best for him to go, but to say its because of his family which i am sure means more than football as it does to most is daft, i am sure Pep has use of a private plane which can take him back to spain or his family to Manchester door to door in under 3 hours, so for me it would not be his family that takes him away from us.

Also, I don't think he has ever broken a contract!

 

[john blue]

Who knows mate. If the fire's still burning then we're on a winner, be sad if he's off after next season but life goes on.

Then up rolls Vincent. ?

 

[manimanc]

Then up rolls Vincent. ?

Too early.

 

[blueparrot]

Then up rolls Vincent. ?

Best wait and se if he’s any good yet, being a great player , captain and bloke isn’t a qualification for being a great coach.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Dominic Torrent on Pep:

“It’s no surprise Guardiola is making his mark. Thoughtful football with good players always wins through.

“Like Bayern, he took City to a new level, spurring on the competition and raising the overall level of the league. Not just him, but for him too.”

For me, this is Pep’s genius. He takes a squad, analyzes what they have and what they’re lacking, builds a framework for them of how to play football, and then inserts key top class players into the gaps (or future gaps) in the system.

He is a TOTAL FOOTBALL MANAGER.

He was a player who learned his craft under a master of progressive football. He has studied the other masters and he has learned how football can be played to exploit an opponent...

If they don’t have the ball, they can’t score or hurt you...or tire you out chasing them.

Once you have the opponent on the defensive, overload and stretch them by using wide defenders as midfielders and attackers, while moving the ball around to find the holes in their defensive shell.

Whenever, wherever possible, exploit that space with a pass.

Allow world class strikers and opportunists to score.

Once you have scored, the opponent has to abandon their own defensive shell to attack you.

Identify it. Nullify it. Wait it out a little if necessary.

Then...Exploit. Exploit. Exploit.

This is why his teams are so good at scoring late game goals. Chasing the ball for 80 minutes is exhausting. While we open up a space for the ball with a simple three yard jog, the opposition now has to sprint 6-10 yards to cover the threat. We are masters at the wall pass (1-2) to simply make the other team run to cover, even if we don’t move the ball forward at all. Those 12-20 yards pay off an hour later, when we are fresh from our 3-5 yards jogs. The players we thrash are our full backs, which is why Pep spends so much time and money trying to find the FOUR we need for that job.

Pep may or may not stay here longer term, and I honestly think he may well take the mantel of BUILDING THE NEXT TEAM and possibly even receiving a stake in CFG for doing it, or even getting a team (Girona?) for himself. Either way, our focus on supplementing established world class players with the best 16-18 year old talent in the world is a recipe for continued success.

We are developing a global set of talent incubators from which MCFC can feed. We can control transfer fees, and thus FFP costs, while still providing significant financial support for the CFG teams around the world. In essence, it will be a football pyramid, where MCFC at the top source money from the PL and CL and use it to help money flow down the pyramid in return for the best talent within CFG. Those players that move up, but do not achieve consistent First Team squad status (such that they’re deemed good enough to play in Cup ties and make the bench for PL games) can then be sold in the inflated European market for £5-25M. That money then flows into the coffers of MCFC, where FFP is assured and the cycle repeats...

It is a brilliant set-up and one Pep would struggle to emulate anywhere else. The only lure for him can be countries/leagues he has not experienced and a top, top team that wants success and are willing to pay for it. His footprint is the same wherever he goes...so they’ll have to have money to spend on the players his system needs, otherwise it can’t work. I’m the current climate, I wonder how large that universe of clubs can be.

Pep has a chance to make City a global legacy club, much as United, Liverpool, and to a much lesser extent, Arsenal and Chelsea seem globally. He has begun that with his trophy hauls and the long standing records he has broken, not to mention the manner in which this team has revolutionized “football” in England.

However, the new wave of football is strength plus speed. If he can generate a team with that, with the technical ability he demands (requires), then that combination of exquisite finesse, plus speed and power, will be the pinnacle of football as we know it for years to come...placing Pep at the zenith of modern football, if not the history of football.

I believe City can give him that opportunity, if he buys into The Project and creates this club in his image, while allowing Txiki and Ferrari to manage the CFG aspects of it.

My concern is England. Will England turn him away...the media, the weather, the lifestyle. If you can have ANYTHING...or nothing and do what you want when you want...would MANCHESTER be that for you? Your wife? Your family? There are certain WAYS in which one can make it work, but this man is Catalan in his heart and the heart rules the head when safety and security are guaranteed.

I hope he stays, because the future could be oh-so-bright, but I wouldn’t place a bet on it, sadly, especially if he feels like FFP has ruined his last year and Ferran has lied to him about everything being completely above board and sound.

Watch this space, I guess...

 

[kaz7]

lets be honest if he has lost his love of the game then best for him to go, but to say its because of his family which i am sure means more than football as it does to most is daft, i am sure Pep has use of a private plane which can take him back to spain or his family to Manchester door to door in under 3 hours, so for me it would not be his family that takes him away from us.

He has said many times family over football,especially to dave when the baby was born,u don't think he will break the contract ,but staying longer ,no imo

 

[samarasra]

Dominic Torrent on Pep:

“It’s no surprise Guardiola is making his mark. Thoughtful football with good players always wins through.

“Like Bayern, he took City to a new level, spurring on the competition and raising the overall level of the league. Not just him, but for him too.”

For me, this is Pep’s genius. He takes a squad, analyzes what they have and what they’re lacking, builds a framework for them of how to play football, and then inserts key top class players into the gaps (or future gaps) in the system.

He is a TOTAL FOOTBALL MANAGER.

He was a player who learned his craft under a master of progressive football. He has studied the other masters and he has learned how football can be played to exploit an opponent...

If they don’t have the ball, they can’t score or hurt you...or tire you out chasing them.

Once you have the opponent on the defensive, overload and stretch them by using wide defenders as midfielders and attackers, while moving the ball around to find the holes in their defensive shell.

Whenever, wherever possible, exploit that space with a pass.

Allow world class strikers and opportunists to score.

Once you have scored, the opponent has to abandon their own defensive shell to attack you.

Identify it. Nullify it. Wait it out a little if necessary.

Then...Exploit. Exploit. Exploit.

This is why his teams are so good at scoring late game goals. Chasing the ball for 80 minutes is exhausting. While we open up a space for the ball with a simple three yard jog, the opposition now has to sprint 6-10 yards to cover the threat. We are masters at the wall pass (1-2) to simply make the other team run to cover, even if we don’t move the ball forward at all. Those 12-20 yards pay off an hour later, when we are fresh from our 3-5 yards jogs. The players we thrash are our full backs, which is why Pep spends so much time and money trying to find the FOUR we need for that job.

Pep may or may not stay here longer term, and I honestly think he may well take the mantel of BUILDING THE NEXT TEAM and possibly even receiving a stake in CFG for doing it, or even getting a team (Girona?) for himself. Either way, our focus on supplementing established world class players with the best 16-18 year old talent in the world is a recipe for continued success.

We are developing a global set of talent incubators from which MCFC can feed. We can control transfer fees, and thus FFP costs, while still providing significant financial support for the CFG teams around the world. In essence, it will be a football pyramid, where MCFC at the top source money from the PL and CL and use it to help money flow down the pyramid in return for the best talent within CFG. Those players that move up, but do not achieve consistent First Team squad status (such that they’re deemed good enough to play in Cup ties and make the bench for PL games) can then be sold in the inflated European market for £5-25M. That money then flows into the coffers of MCFC, where FFP is assured and the cycle repeats...

It is a brilliant set-up and one Pep would struggle to emulate anywhere else. The only lure for him can be countries/leagues he has not experienced and a top, top team that wants success and are willing to pay for it. His footprint is the same wherever he goes...so they’ll have to have money to spend on the players his system needs, otherwise it can’t work. I’m the current climate, I wonder how large that universe of clubs can be.

Pep has a chance to make City a global legacy club, much as United, Liverpool, and to a much lesser extent, Arsenal and Chelsea seem globally. He has begun that with his trophy hauls and the long standing records he has broken, not to mention the manner in which this team has revolutionized “football” in England.

However, the new wave of football is strength plus speed. If he can generate a team with that, with the technical ability he demands (requires), then that combination of exquisite finesse, plus speed and power, will be the pinnacle of football as we know it for years to come...placing Pep at the zenith of modern football, if not the history of football.

I believe City can give him that opportunity, if he buys into The Project and creates this club in his image, while allowing Txiki and Ferrari to manage the CFG aspects of it.

My concern is England. Will England turn him away...the media, the weather, the lifestyle. If you can have ANYTHING...or nothing and do what you want when you want...would MANCHESTER be that for you? Your wife? Your family? There are certain WAYS in which one can make it work, but this man is Catalan in his heart and the heart rules the head when safety and security are guaranteed.

I hope he stays, because the future could be oh-so-bright, but I wouldn’t place a bet on it, sadly, especially if he feels like FFP has ruined his last year and Ferran has lied to him about everything being completely above board and sound.

Watch this space, I guess...

A privilege to read such a thoughtful post.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

A privilege to read such a thoughtful post.

Wow. Thank you. Very nice thing to say.

 

[Mancini Manus Domini]

If Pep is to stay at City I think there are two key factors.

1) Pep is in complete control of everything he wants to be. At both Barcelona and Bayern boardroom politics soured some of the success he had at both clubs. Does he want to risk going back to Barcelona or a new project where the same toxicity appears? He will never have better conditions to execute his ideas than he does right now.

2) The Premier League. The big 6. Leicester & Wolves. Newcastle. He's not going to get bored anytime soon. Chelsea in his first season and Liverpool this season have bettered him. If it was all too easy he'd easily move on. But it's still proving to be a challenge, and much more varied than he's going to get anywhere else.

I bet he loves it here. I would be surprised if he moves on.

 

[Silva top]

Dominic Torrent on Pep:

“It’s no surprise Guardiola is making his mark. Thoughtful football with good players always wins through.

“Like Bayern, he took City to a new level, spurring on the competition and raising the overall level of the league. Not just him, but for him too.”

For me, this is Pep’s genius. He takes a squad, analyzes what they have and what they’re lacking, builds a framework for them of how to play football, and then inserts key top class players into the gaps (or future gaps) in the system.

He is a TOTAL FOOTBALL MANAGER.

He was a player who learned his craft under a master of progressive football. He has studied the other masters and he has learned how football can be played to exploit an opponent...

If they don’t have the ball, they can’t score or hurt you...or tire you out chasing them.

Once you have the opponent on the defensive, overload and stretch them by using wide defenders as midfielders and attackers, while moving the ball around to find the holes in their defensive shell.

Whenever, wherever possible, exploit that space with a pass.

Allow world class strikers and opportunists to score.

Once you have scored, the opponent has to abandon their own defensive shell to attack you.

Identify it. Nullify it. Wait it out a little if necessary.

Then...Exploit. Exploit. Exploit.

This is why his teams are so good at scoring late game goals. Chasing the ball for 80 minutes is exhausting. While we open up a space for the ball with a simple three yard jog, the opposition now has to sprint 6-10 yards to cover the threat. We are masters at the wall pass (1-2) to simply make the other team run to cover, even if we don’t move the ball forward at all. Those 12-20 yards pay off an hour later, when we are fresh from our 3-5 yards jogs. The players we thrash are our full backs, which is why Pep spends so much time and money trying to find the FOUR we need for that job.

Pep may or may not stay here longer term, and I honestly think he may well take the mantel of BUILDING THE NEXT TEAM and possibly even receiving a stake in CFG for doing it, or even getting a team (Girona?) for himself. Either way, our focus on supplementing established world class players with the best 16-18 year old talent in the world is a recipe for continued success.

We are developing a global set of talent incubators from which MCFC can feed. We can control transfer fees, and thus FFP costs, while still providing significant financial support for the CFG teams around the world. In essence, it will be a football pyramid, where MCFC at the top source money from the PL and CL and use it to help money flow down the pyramid in return for the best talent within CFG. Those players that move up, but do not achieve consistent First Team squad status (such that they’re deemed good enough to play in Cup ties and make the bench for PL games) can then be sold in the inflated European market for £5-25M. That money then flows into the coffers of MCFC, where FFP is assured and the cycle repeats...

It is a brilliant set-up and one Pep would struggle to emulate anywhere else. The only lure for him can be countries/leagues he has not experienced and a top, top team that wants success and are willing to pay for it. His footprint is the same wherever he goes...so they’ll have to have money to spend on the players his system needs, otherwise it can’t work. I’m the current climate, I wonder how large that universe of clubs can be.

Pep has a chance to make City a global legacy club, much as United, Liverpool, and to a much lesser extent, Arsenal and Chelsea seem globally. He has begun that with his trophy hauls and the long standing records he has broken, not to mention the manner in which this team has revolutionized “football” in England.

However, the new wave of football is strength plus speed. If he can generate a team with that, with the technical ability he demands (requires), then that combination of exquisite finesse, plus speed and power, will be the pinnacle of football as we know it for years to come...placing Pep at the zenith of modern football, if not the history of football.

I believe City can give him that opportunity, if he buys into The Project and creates this club in his image, while allowing Txiki and Ferrari to manage the CFG aspects of it.

My concern is England. Will England turn him away...the media, the weather, the lifestyle. If you can have ANYTHING...or nothing and do what you want when you want...would MANCHESTER be that for you? Your wife? Your family? There are certain WAYS in which one can make it work, but this man is Catalan in his heart and the heart rules the head when safety and security are guaranteed.

I hope he stays, because the future could be oh-so-bright, but I wouldn’t place a bet on it, sadly, especially if he feels like FFP has ruined his last year and Ferran has lied to him about everything being completely above board and sound.

Watch this space, I guess...

Brilliant post. Thank you for all your effort.
I really hope that Manchester has got into his blood and he stays for a little longer. Incidentally, I believe that Ferran is 100% telling the truth and eventually Manchester City will be exonerated completely (even if the media don’t accept that).