Said at the end of last season he doesn’t deserve a contract on current form and a return of a league cup is not good enough for the resources we have and got abused on here.
Its the same problems over and over, teams sit deep counter with pace and we have no answer, we have been found out and seemingly Pep is doing nothing to change it. I don’t know how involved Pep is with recruitment but Rodri is not the answer in midfield in the system we play, he is far far to slow As is Fernandinho (due to his age) as well as gundogan.
The decision to not replace our best player of all time is naive at best and arrogant at worst, the way he controlled games and created i would wager yesterday’s result would have been different.
My theory is as follows, When Pep came to England most teams adopted a very typical English approach I.e 4 4 2/ 4 5 1 - 2 lines of defences sitting in their own half, knocking it long to the big man up top etc and Peps football works best when against that kind of opposition (see his record v mourinho).
A lot of teams now play a very German style of football with high pressing, lots of pace and energy in the side, quick counter attacking etc. This is the style of football Pep’s style of football struggles against (see his record v Klopp) and is currently the most successful way of playing (see Bayern).
Jose started to struggle once teams over here starting playing similar to how we do because that system works best against a very defensive set up. Now teams over here are adopting a more German way of playing Pep is struggling for the reasons mentioned above. Eventually there will be a system which then exploits the German way of playing (I think we have seen the beginnings of it with the 3 at back system getting more popular with the Man to man marking of a front 3).
Apologies for the long post but that’s my theory anyways. Footballi is always evolving and if you did evolve with it you will be left behind.
