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

Tricky_Trev said:
I honestly don’t think the players respond to Pep like they used to. You could see in KDB’s interview he was pissed off with the tactics. If he starts to lose our best player’s belief in him then his time is up, it’s just a matter of when. When he joined he had that aura of saying what will happen, how we’ll win, and then it happens. I get the feeling the players are starting to doubt his ideas. I love Pep but it’s difficult to ignore these worrying signs. The end might be close for him. He can recover it by swallowing his pride and learning. But it’s down to him, he hasn’t shown he can do that.
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THIS. NAIL ON HEAD.
 
Marvin said:
That's a very optimistic view in the immediate aftermath of a shocking defeat. It's probably our worst defeat ever in Europe because this was not Real Madrid, Barcelona, or rank bad luck, it was managerial ineptitude which raises big questions about the coach. How can a celebrated coach do this? Ferguson was occasionally prone to stupid mistakes that cost them. Perhaps this is one of those moments but this seems to basic and so contradictory to everything that you associate Pep.

He masterminded a good performance and got it spot on against Real Madrid but last night was absurd.
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I am gutted about last night and Pep clearly got it completely wrong. My main point was we know the way we play best and hopefully in the cold light of day Pep looks back and learns from this.

From the initial interviews after the game Pep seemed to think the system worked well, but hopefully he’s just saying that.

I am optimistic as I truly believe pep did what he did as he has no faith at all in our defence. He even said we have slow defenders so needed more protection. Ake helps remedy that and I’m sure the other defenders we get in too will Fix those issues.

After a time of huge disappointment I’m just trying to look forward as next season Pep will have a point to prove and that’s usually when we smash everything in our way.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
I honestly don’t think the players respond to Pep like they used to. You could see in KDB’s interview he was pissed off with the tactics. If he starts to lose our best player’s belief in him then his time is up, it’s just a matter of when. When he joined he had that aura of saying what will happen, how we’ll win, and then it happens. I get the feeling the players are starting to doubt his ideas. I love Pep but it’s difficult to ignore these worrying signs. The end might be close for him. He can recover it by swallowing his pride and learning. But it’s down to him, he hasn’t shown he can do that.
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I bet KDB sat there whilst the team was being read out and thought to himself, “what the fuck is that team selection all about.”
 
We had the ideal replacement in house with Arteta, I wonder whether there's a case for bringing in someone of a similar standing in as Pep's assistant for the final year of his contract to learn the ropes then take over the following season. Vieira maybe?
 
Goaters said:
I am gutted about last night and Pep clearly got it completely wrong. My main point was we know the way we play best and hopefully in the cold light of day Pep looks back and learns from this.

From the initial interviews after the game Pep seemed to think the system worked well, but hopefully he’s just saying that.

I am optimistic as I truly believe pep did what he did as he has no faith at all in our defence. He even said we have slow defenders so needed more protection. Ake helps remedy that and I’m sure the other defenders we get in too will Fix those issues.

After a time of huge disappointment I’m just trying to look forward as next season Pep will have a point to prove and that’s usually when we smash everything in our way.
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Hopefully he is just saying that but it is plain as the nose on your face that we had more threat when we reverted to a more familiar system.
 
Keeper! said:
He is called the best manager in the world and maybe rightly so BUT he has made so terrible errors this season and he is not above severe criticism.
Last night was appalling, we went out weakly , a shadow of the team we know we are. I don't find that acceptable.

To me football is a simple game, you always play your strongest team, you give 100% commitment. If you match the opposition for commitment your greater ability will always come to the top.

Last night we surrendered to the 7th best team in France, yes the 7th , not Bayern, Not Real, Not Liverpool but Lyon the 7th best team in France.

Pathetic and any manager whom selected that side last night and left the likes of Silva, Bernardo, Mahrez and Foden on the bench and selected a 19 year old kid who has already told us that he no longer wants to be at the club should be absolutely hammered, whoever he is and whatever is reputation is.

Those tactics last night will have done a lot of damage in the dressing room, the like of Bernard and god forbid KDB must be doing a lot of thinking this morning.
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Well said mate.
 
DTKOAG said:
Am I right in thinking that once Pep does go Tixi and Soriano leave also ?
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I would be amazed if they do. Our owners had a long term plan to get Pep in and to have him to leave his mark permanently. We will then build on this. Tixi and Sorriano will be part of this process, as will Khaldoon, and countless others supporting the process.
 
samarasra said:
Not a domestic trophy as managers between them. Guardiola wannabees, promising but unproven, and you think City should risk their multi-million investment on potentially good managers when we already have one of the greatest starting to build a new squad. Let's get Harry Redknapp, at least he has won an F.A Cup and he specializes in spending other peoples money
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I tell you what, Harry Redknapp wouldn’t have picked Gundogan and left David Silva, Bernado Silva and Phil Foden on the bench. Absolutely no chance.

Guardiola has decided he’s going to play Gundogan in every minute of every single Champions League game. Fuck what’s best for City. He’s going to do what’s best for his ego. Prove himself right.

4 times on the spin he’s been directly, completely and entirely responsible for us going out of the Champions League.

Instead of playing the way we’ve been super-successful, he’s decided when it comes to the Champions League he needs to make it about him. He wants the attention. Fuck what’s best for City, he’s going to do what’s best for his ego.

And he has the fucking cheek, time after time to lay the blame at the club. “This club will one day break the cycle of never being successful in the Champions League”.

But it’s not the club’s fault. The club have given him everything he could possibly need to be successful in the Champions League. But he’s decided to make it all about him so people can laud him for his genius.

Four times is just too many. He’s not going to learn, he’s not going to change. We’ve missed a golden opportunity. For the previous two seasons we were the best team in Europe. We should have won it. We might never get that chance again because we’re in serious regression while Bayern and Liverpool have comprehensively overtaken us.

Time for new ideas and less ego.
 
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