Personally for me to feel comfortable with Pep extending his contract, I want to know that he's willing to learn from his shortfalls over the past season or so.
A lot of our issues are currently his doing, with his team selections, setup and insistence on shoehorning certain players in this side when there's little to warrant it. We haven't been able to just keep things simple and do what we do best, everything feels like it has to be laboured and done the difficult way.
Things aren't working and I want to see some progress on him trying to fix these issues. At the moment, I'm not seeing it, just a reversion of his decisions that caused us a limp finish last season.
One of City's (and as a wider CFG model) first and foremost aims is to play attractive football. What we've been serving up recently is anything but. It's come to a point where I rarely actually enjoy our games, not just because of the mixed results, but because of the glaringly obvious weaknesses or reasons for us underperforming not being addressed week after week.
Pep's been phenomenal and if he feels that he's on board for the long haul and can turn things around, sign him up, but I do worry the club are blindly going to try and get him to extend even when it might not be the best course of action for us if his heads just not in it any more.
I feel like we need a balanced view and our results and performances have been poor for far too long for this to now be a short term issue that can be ironed out easily. For me, things are coming to a natural end and unless we see a dramatic insurgence of form over the next couple of months going into the new year, the club need to be taking a pragmatic view over the course of action, rather than signing him back up just because he's Pep.
