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

I hope Pep's here for many years. I also expect that our senior management team has a continuity plan in place should he leave tomorrow.

As regards Pep, I do not think there was anything wrong tactically on Saturday. The system worked like a dream but certain players, good as they may be, were unable to carry out their roles properly. Doubtless Pep will form a view on whether a) those players' good points outweigh the bad and b) whether superior players are available for those roles.
 
bluemoon32 said:
I hope he's at City for years to come as some of the football we've seen this season has been the best from any City side I've ever seen.
He shouldn't just be judged on the likely Champions League exit to Liverpool, he failed to win a CL at Bayern, a club with a huge European Cup pedigree, that shows how difficult it is to win that particular trophy.
Yes i'm hugely disappointed with the recent two games as we just went missing but we'll still win the league and that's the most important trophy for me, the owners may feel otherwise though.
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I think the point is the growing evidence that his teams tend not to turn up in big games in Europe and/or implode. Worryingly he seems to be aware of this but unable to change things around. He is wedded to a style of play and a footballing philosophy which when it works is sublime and because it works most of the time people tend to be shocked when it comes crashing down. It only tends to come crashing down when playing top teams in big matches and twice in 3 days is hard to stomach for many given the overall success this season.
 
Much as I love the guy, I'm not sure I want to give him a shedload of extra cash for the next 2 seasons if he's only extending by one season.It needs to be 2 extra seasons at least - preferably 3.
 
I don't know if it will be a one year contract or longer, but I think it was in one of the books on Pep where it mentions the logic behind not extending too far learning from his Barca days, & one reason is that he can't be sure himself how long he can keep up the intensity & also get it back from the players. When that goes, he goes.

I don't think he's the kind of manager to flog a dead horse, or go through the motions if it goes pear shaped, bullshitting he will soon turn the corner like most do, he just accepts that someone else should have a go.

But there is nothing on the other hand, to stop him from staying for years, if he still has that inspiration. In the past, it's been down to the fact that he doesn't know, himself, how long he can do the job to the required level, so he doesn't sign up for long stints.
 
Unfortunately 1 year sounds like Pep and will be another thing the British media will fail to understand as will some of our fan base.

He does 1 year because he does not want to be too comfortable, he is also a man of his word and treats contracts with the way they are intended and not a security blanket against being sacked.

If he wanted 5 years I’m sure the club would give it him, us fans would rejoice but Pep knows it does not get the best out of him.

There is a reason he is the best and this is one of them!!
 
Fuzzy80 said:
Unfortunately 1 year sounds like Pep and will be another thing the British media will fail to understand as will some of our fan base.

He does 1 year because he does not want to be too comfortable, he is also a man of his word and treats contracts with the way they are intended and not a security blanket against being sacked.

If he wanted 5 years I’m sure the club would give it him, us fans would rejoice but Pep knows it does not get the best out of him.

There is a reason he is the best and this is one of them!!
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It would also be one year, with a year still to run, so it's not like at Barca, where he made the decision to extend during the last year of his contract.

For Pep to allegedly agree an extension halfway through his contract, says something about how he sees his situation at City imo.
 
Fuzzy80 said:
Unfortunately 1 year sounds like Pep and will be another thing the British media will fail to understand as will some of our fan base.

He does 1 year because he does not want to be too comfortable, he is also a man of his word and treats contracts with the way they are intended and not a security blanket against being sacked.

If he wanted 5 years I’m sure the club would give it him, us fans would rejoice but Pep knows it does not get the best out of him.

There is a reason he is the best and this is one of them!!
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Yep in Pep confidential he says he looks in the players eyes and he knows if they are still behind him. When that goes he goes.
 
Father Paul said:
I think the point is the growing evidence that his teams tend not to turn up in big games in Europe and/or implode. Worryingly he seems to be aware of this but unable to change things around. He is wedded to a style of play and a footballing philosophy which when it works is sublime and because it works most of the time people tend to be shocked when it comes crashing down. It only tends to come crashing down when playing top teams in big matches and twice in 3 days is hard to stomach for many given the overall success this season.
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Has he never won the CL as a manager?
 
Wreckless Alec said:
I hope Pep's here for many years. I also expect that our senior management team has a continuity plan in place should he leave tomorrow.

As regards Pep, I do not think there was anything wrong tactically on Saturday. The system worked like a dream but certain players, good as they may be, were unable to carry out their roles properly. Doubtless Pep will form a view on whether a) those players' good points outweigh the bad and b) whether superior players are available for those roles.
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The only main problem was the referees decision making.
 
CC1 said:
Exactly pal. Some of the previous comments seem to suggest its s gap in Pep’s CV!!!
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The narrative is, that he 'only' won it with Barca, therefore, there must be something wrong with his methods.

If he tactically arranged to get totally dicked by Bayern Munich, lead a charmed life, then score two goals in the last min from corner kicks, he would be a true football genius.

Fuck this passing football lark, who needs that ?
 
CC1 said:
Exactly pal. Some of the previous comments seem to suggest its s gap in Pep’s CV!!!
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Watched the 2011 final while on holiday in Tenerife. A family of rags (from Plymouth!), all with brand new rag tops on, were on a table near the main TV. They were not amused when they saw my City polo shirt.. We went in another room and watched the game. I went back into the bar at the final whistle and they had, unsurprisingly, disappeared! The restaurant owner said that they had left when Barca's 3rd goal went in, and never said a word.

They'd probably had practice at leaving before the end a month earlier, also at Wembley. I forget who beat them that day.
 
Give Pep what he wants.

Let's try and get Pep to stay for as long as we can.
 
I'm quite happy with that, and as others have said, it seems to be the way he goes about his own personal business, my own personal opinion is that he'll be here a little longer as long as he's getting the right vibes back from the squad as I genuinely believe Pep gets this club and the situation it's in, the injustices, the barriers put in place to hinder us by 'the man', we only have to look at his dogged (easy Stinloy) response to the whole Catalonia thing to realise he is very much 'a man of principle', and our situation fits him perfectly, for now.
 
Guillem Balague claims there is a possibility that Pep Guardiola could even stay beyond 2020.

“It’s his friends who are in charge, in some facilities that are the best in the world, with the squad that he’s chosen. It’s a young, young squad and with a lot of potential.”

"He’s calm, he’s balanced, he’s happy, and I think Manchester City will soon offer him the possibility to stay on. But that will be year by year, so perhaps they will convince him to stay one more year and then in a year’s time do exactly the same."
 
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