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

[wolviedinho]

The only mistake pep keeps repeating is his persistence to play certain players in the hope it will come good. He needs to drop them from the squad until sold. Play the kids and give a few others a proper chance in their correct positions. Back to basics and stop being sooooo nice.

If he keeps making the same mistakes then he deserves the abuse. Try Foden and Bernie in front of Kev. Make the changes or it will continue all season. The man is a genius but he needs to take stock and maybe look for an alternative voice that is not Spanish.

 

[BillyShears]

Pep’s going nowhere. He has the total trust of the owners and board and he’ll have probably a big spend next summer. This season feels like a big transition. If anything I blame the board and owners for not being more aggressive and resting on their laurels in the summer of 2019.

Also there isn’t a better coach than him out there to fix a broken attack.

 

[ws01]

So Txiki is completely blameless as a DoF? DoF is exactly responsible for everything that happens in the sporting side of the club.

and if it was Pep saying bring this and that, its Txiki who brought Pep in, so these players even that case are on Txiki.

Txiki Begiristain as director of football is responsible for absolutely everything no matter how you twist it.

No, of course Txiki isn't blameless when you look at it as a whole. Absolutely a part of it - though I don't believe you're correct on him being responsible for bringing Pep in. That decision would lie much further up the chain of command than Txiki.

The final say on who we bring in is on the manager though. Always has been. Fair enough, Txiki isn't going to land everyone Pep wants, but he isn't going to bring in anyone Pep doesn't want either.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Just been back to 21/11 the same issues then are the same now.

Answer? Fuck knows but I'm not paid a fortune to find one.

Actually I would stop it seemingly being so cosy for the players & management team.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Pep’s going nowhere. He has the total trust of the owners and board and he’ll have probably a big spend next summer. This season feels like a big transition. If anything I blame the board and owners for not being more aggressive and resting on their laurels in the summer of 2019.

Also there isn’t a better coach than him out there to fix a broken attack.

Has no answers so far, the squad we've dismantled and rebuilt in his image is an ideological shortfall I don't think he'll overcome. He's pissed off but whatever he's trying isn't getting through to these players.

 

[John John]

These are strange times for all teams . Some suffer more when no fans are watching. Teams like Southampton and Spurs are playing above what they produced last season. It won't last forever. City will be right up there when it counts, at the end of the season

 

[cjn]

Pep certainly shouldn’t escape blame for the tactics, but for me the reason behind this is that we’ve managed the squad poorly over the last several years. I’ve said this a million times but in the transfer market we used to compete to sign the best, most in-demand, players in the world and now we seemingly sign guys primarily because they have release clauses or because we don’t have to bid against anyone. We’ll see it again when we let Haaland go by this summer – for whatever reason we’ll pass on one of the most obvious signings at a position of need that I’ve ever seen so we can spend €60M on Patson Daka or something. There's so many examples, but off the top of my head:

• How is left back STILL such a mess? The Mendy situation is what it is, but how have we gone this long and our options are either him, Zinchenko, and Cancelo? One is a nice guy who should have been moved on ages ago and the other is not a left back, one-footed, and as far as I can tell was only bought because Danilo wanted to go and he happened to be available.
• Why did we dominate the league with Ferna as our most important player at the six and then replace him with a guy who plays nothing like him?
• Why did we buy Mahrez at all?
• Pet peeve of mine but why do we struggle for foreign spots then waste one on backup keepers that never play?
• Why, last year, did we not bother buying a Vinny Kompany replacement until we let it ruin the season?
• Why, this year, did we not bother buying a David Silva replacement until we let it ruin the season?
• (watch this space for next year when we buy a 21 year old Sergio Aguero replacement from the Portuguese league)

The whole thing is frustrating because it's not even one thing, it's all these little things that build up over time and all of a sudden you end up with a billion pound squad where KDB is the only world class player in it (Raheem can rejoin when he feels like it). Hopefully we can turn it around, but I think it's going to take a change in the recent strategy and a whole bunch of outgoings as well.

 

[Kippax77]

Pep certainly shouldn’t escape blame for the tactics, but for me the reason behind this is that we’ve managed the squad poorly over the last several years. I’ve said this a million times but in the transfer market we used to compete to sign the best, most in-demand, players in the world and now we seemingly sign guys primarily because they have release clauses or because we don’t have to bid against anyone. We’ll see it again when we let Haaland go by this summer – for whatever reason we’ll pass on one of the most obvious signings at a position of need that I’ve ever seen so we can spend €60M on Patson Daka or something. There's so many examples, but off the top of my head:

• How is left back STILL such a mess? The Mendy situation is what it is, but how have we gone this long and our options are either him, Zinchenko, and Cancelo? One is a nice guy who should have been moved on ages ago and the other is not a left back, one-footed, and as far as I can tell was only bought because Danilo wanted to go and he happened to be available.
• Why did we dominate the league with Ferna as our most important player at the six and then replace him with a guy who plays nothing like him?
• Why did we buy Mahrez at all?
• Why, last year, did we not bother buying a Vinny Kompany replacement until we let it ruin the season?
• Why, this year, did we not bother buying a David Silva replacement until we let it ruin the season?
• (watch this space for next year when we buy a 21 year old Sergio Aguero replacement from the Portuguese league)

The whole thing is frustrating because it's not even one thing, it's all these little things that build up over time and all of a sudden you end up with a billion pound squad where KDB is the only world class player in it (Raheem can rejoin when he feels like it). Hopefully we can turn it around, but I think it's going to take a change in the recent strategy and a whole bunch of outgoings as well.

Great post mate

 

[PhdWave]

• Pep certainly shouldn’t escape blame for the tactics, but for me the reason behind this is that we’ve managed the squad poorly over the last several years. I’ve said this a million times but in the transfer market we used to compete to sign the best, most in-demand, players in the world and now we seemingly sign guys primarily because they have release clauses or because we don’t have to bid against anyone. We’ll see it again when we let Haaland go by this summer – for whatever reason we’ll pass on one of the most obvious signings at a position of need that I’ve ever seen so we can spend €60M on Patson Daka or something. There's so many examples, but off the top of my head:
  
  

  • How is left back STILL such a mess? The Mendy situation is what it is, but how have we gone this long and our options are either him, Zinchenko, and Cancelo? One is a nice guy who should have been moved on ages ago and the other is not a left back, one-footed, and as far as I can tell was only bought because Danilo wanted to go and he happened to be available.
  • Why did we dominate the league with Ferna as our most important player at the six and then replace him with a guy who plays nothing like him?
  • Why did we buy Mahrez at all?
  • Pet peeve of mine but why do we struggle for foreign spots then waste one on backup keepers that never play?
  • Why, last year, did we not bother buying a Vinny Kompany replacement until we let it ruin the season?
  • Why, this year, did we not bother buying a David Silva replacement until we let it ruin the season?
  • (watch this space for next year when we buy a 21 year old Sergio Aguero replacement from the Portuguese league)

  The whole thing is frustrating because it's not even one thing, it's all these little things that build up over time and all of a sudden you end up with a billion pound squad where KDB is the only world class player in it (Raheem can rejoin when he feels like it). Hopefully we can turn it around, but I think it's going to take a change in the recent strategy and a whole bunch of outgoings

I think we expected Bernardo to step up for Silva as he did for KDB. But somehow he is simply not performing it seems... Otherwise I am pretty sure Pep would play him against some weaker teams instead of using gundogan for attacking. Without him stepping up, everything almost has to be KDB with our wingers being fucking wank at the moment.

It's like our team lost evry attacking outlet this year except KDB.
Foden inconsistent.
Mahrez inconsistent and outright wank sometimes this season.
Sterling same or worse than Mahrez.
Bernardo what the hell happened?
Torres too young and new to make consistent threats throughout the season.

Thanks the God for Dias our defense is really good now.

 

[wolviedinho]

The players need to do their jobs and if not possible transfer to another club. We had this player revolt under Bobby Manc and it ended with them throwing away an FA cup. We are not Chelsea-I back Pep all the way. His mistakes are honest and his intentions clear. If the players cant handle his intense style then i suggest they go to another club.

The passing, finishing and movement is atrocious - Certainly not Peps fault.