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

How the fuck on earth does he manage to bottle CL games consistently? I understand the need for tinkering and accept it when we are up against a better opponent, but against Lyon? Sacrificing our attacking output to let Lyon defend better. I can bet Bayern will not be changing their tactic or formation against them for the SF, and will easily roll them over. This has to be up there with the one of his most embarrassing games. I hate Klopp but he never tinkered with his teams and got them to play their style consistently. Got them two CL finals whilst we are fannying about in the QFs and getting knocked out by inferior sides. I love Pep and see him as the best manager but Jesus fucking Christ he is incompetent in the CL.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
So it was unfortunate, then? Garcia reacted well enough, but his tackle fell to their player, rather than safely.

That being said, I don’t know why Pep doesn’t have pace as one of his central defender’s necessities. Play a high line; have the ability to get back quickly if a ball goes over the top of it.
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Actually to be fair, it was an excellent bit of defending from Garcia.

The failing came from Walker not tracking back and allowing the forward to finish unchallenged (albeit it was a great finish).......
 
For the people comparing sacking Ferguson every time he had a bad defeat, difference is he almost never had one of the best squads in Europe, and when he did, he went and won the bloody thing. Generally he got above average players performing at a higher level and when they did lose, it was to vastly superior teams. Guardiola fucks up against bang average teams time and time again.
 
Mayor West said:
For the people comparing sacking Ferguson every time he had a bad defeat, difference is he almost never had one of the best squads in Europe, and when he did, he went and won the bloody thing. Generally he got above average players performing at a higher level and when they did lose, it was to vastly superior teams. Guardiola fucks up against bang average teams time and time again.
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Ferguson has the most expensive squad for twenty years had referees and premier licking his arse for the majority of that time and oh yep he never lost or lost the plot team picking against shit sides. Red tinted glasses you looking threw there.
 
Guardiola has been brilliant. He is a record breaker and we play outstanding football. Only idiots believe otherwise and this morning's posts are, to a large part, embarrassing and emotionally driven.

Last night was poor. He got it wrong. Eterson got it wrong, VAR got it wrong and Raz got it wrong. Bad night.
 
Let me start off by saying I LOVE Pep and have no desire to see him move on.

All the end of the PL season, Pep was pretty consistent in his formations and selections, and now for this match it goes out the window.

I understand that you need different formations for different matches, but surely you don't need to come up with a new formation for each match - you can have plans a, b, c, and d. But when was the last time that we played a back 3 with Gundogan and Rodri in front of them?

The thing we have as a team, always, is goal threat. That's what will keep opposing managers awake at night. But we didn't put that team on the pitch. Why select a side in which the back 5 plus two midfielders offer no serious threat?

After their success RM match, I genuinely feel sorry for some of the players, as they must wonder how well they need to play for Pep to stick with them. (unless some of them were fatigued).
 
oldius said:
Guardiola has been brilliant. He is a record breaker and we play outstanding football. Only idiots believe otherwise and this morning's posts are, to a large part, embarrassing and emotionally driven.

Last night was poor. He got it wrong. Eterson got it wrong, VAR got it wrong and Raz got it wrong. Bad night.
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You can't get it wrong in games against the 7th best team in France.

That was our biggest game of the season, the type of game you buy the best players for and obtain the best manager.

Incredibly we have reached the level where we play very few meaningful fixtures every season, in most games our b team could beat the opposition comfortably.

This season we have failed far too many times, and far too many times we have got it wrong, not acceptable for me and I am 99.9% certain utterly unacceptable to our owner.
 
OB1 said:
Oh man, don't you start. Who exactly is going to do a better job than Pep?
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It’s not about other people is it? The questions are:

1. Do our owners want to win to the Champions League?
2. Is Pep capable/likely of delivering that goal?

I’d argue that on the evidence to date the answers are currently ‘yes’ and ‘no’.

We’ve lost 11 times this season across all competitions and, with the exception of Liverpool away, each defeat has been a carbon copy of the previous one. Unable to break down a low block at one end of the field without crossing and heading as a viable option, and undone by simple balls over the top at the other end. If Pep’s going to continue to buy players of a certain type - and another moderately paced 5ft 11’ centre half doesn’t fill me with particular confidence - then he’s going to have to pay some heed to physicality and pace as well as comfort on the ball, surely? You don’t have to be good to beat us at the moment, just organised and with a quick muscular forward at your disposal, and one of the things that concerns me most is that if anything we’ve been no better defensively since Laporte, our lynchpin, returned to the team than we were when he was out injured. Caught square on at the back again and again, always someone playing the opposition onside, appalling cockups from Mendy or Stones every 4th game they play in, Otamendi diving in off his feet cos he hasn’t got the pace to jockey anyone away from goal, Garcia pulling the shirt off his opponent’s back cos he hasn’t got the strength or pace to contain them otherwise. All accomplished with the ball at their feet of course, but letting the opposition score from barely a handful of chances as a matter of routine. 3 from 6 again last night. Not quite as bad as the 4 from 5 against Spurs home and away this season, but indicative of a pattern that we seem incapable of rectifying.

I don’t want Pep gone for one second. We play beautiful football under his tutelage, but if he doesn’t start adjusting the composition of his squad some time soon (and he’s already had a King’s ransom to spend) to address its very obvious shortcomings, then people are bound to ask if we might be better off considering an alternative, given that we have such a specific goal in mind. That was a car crash last night, on a par with the suicidal ‘box’ formation he unveiled at Anfield in the QF’s 2 years ago that enabled Robertson and TAA to charge up and down the flanks unchallenged, and the fact that we all knew what was coming from the moment the team sheet was announced has to be a concern, doesn’t it?
 
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