To be fair to our press, and I don't like defending them, their idiocy is restricted to silly questions in pressers and boring opinions on talk radio. The Spanish football press is actively toxic.He seems genuinely happy to be here and why wouldn't he? Aside from the weather, shitty press and the odd loon filming him there's no better place to be a manager.
I’m not. I see it every week. :-)Spain is playing very well. don't be envious
Not even a “so, so pleased” or “more than you can believe”.He seems genuinely happy to be here and why wouldn't he? Aside from the weather, shitty press and the odd loon filming him there's no better place to be a manager.
Here's Pep:
“I am so pleased to be staying at Manchester City for another two years,” he said.
“I can’t say thank you enough to everyone at the club for trusting me. I am happy and comfortable here. I have everything I need to do my job as best as possible.
“I know the next chapter of this club will be amazing for the next decade. It happened over the last ten years, and it will happen in the next ten years because this club is so stable.
“From day one I felt something special being here. I cannot be in a better place.
“I still have the feeling there is more we can achieve together and that is why I want to stay and continue fighting for trophies.”
tbf my missus would love having the remote for the tv for 9 months with the odd naked facetime while i have a wank and then receiving a truckload of money every weekThe one doubt I had about whether Pep would carry on was his family situation. I was glad to hear him say that the family were happy for him to stay. So onwards and upwards for City, all is good.
They did. On the flip side against United our subs stopped us playing. Each game is a different case, football is an inexact science, things are not always “right” or “wrong”. As a manager you make hundreds of decisions every day, big and small, and if you are a great manager more work than don’t in the long run. And Pep undoubtedly is that.Decisive and timely substitutions won us the title v Villa tbf
Gotta laugh at Steve Coppell making the Top 10 longest serving managers...and the Top 1 shortest.
Yep, he is human and makes plenty of mistakes but still probably less than most of his peers combinedThey did. On the flip side against United our subs stopped us playing. Each game is a different case, football is an inexact science, things are not always “right” or “wrong”. As a manager you make hundreds of decisions every day, big and small, and if you are a great manager more work than don’t in the long run. And Pep undoubtedly is that.
To be fair to our press, and I don't like defending them, their idiocy is restricted to silly questions in pressers and boring opinions on talk radio. The Spanish football press is actively toxic.
His lad is doing a sports leadership degree at the UCFB based at the CFAThe one doubt I had about whether Pep would carry on was his family situation. I was glad to hear him say that the family were happy for him to stay. So onwards and upwards for City, all is good.
Why stop at one?if we win the champions league this season then i could see a option for pep to leave, the big question would be ok do i stay and try to retain champions league and build another premeir league title push or is champions league the limit
for me the premeir league is the bread and butter the champions league can fuck off, BUT the club and pep want that champions league title so much
Cloughie would be in that if it wasn’t PL restrictedGotta laugh at Steve Coppell making the Top 10 longest serving managers...and the Top 1 shortest.
Bless him.
No his first retirement which he later rescinded.
PS I don’t remember any real improvement in the prem that year. We got 66 points, 13 less than previous year. Champs league performance shows this up rather. Nasri wasn’t even fit.
Treble 20, Treble 20 bull out :-)I’m not. I see it every week. :-)
I’d agree with nearly all of that except we were significantly better than PSG over two legs and never looked in danger of going out. The Madrid semi was shocking though, especially the second legYou're spot on - the notion that we improved after it was announced Pellegrino was to be replaced by Pep in the close season is simply bollocks. It was Pellers himself who revealed Pep's impending arrival in a press conference on 1 February 2016. At that point, we had 44 points from 23 games, three behind leaders Leicester (and with a better goal difference).
We then took 22 points from the last 15 games, a drop from over 1.9 points per game before the announcement to below 1.5 afterwards. We finished in fourth spot, 15 points off the top, and scraped CL qualification only on goal difference.
We'd already qualified for the League Cup final, which we won on penalties, and we squeezed past one of PSG's weaker modern incarnations to make the CL semi, only to put in a supine display against Real where we didn't even seem to try to win the tie. Neither of these things changes the reality of our dreadful league form once it was known Pellegrini was on the way out.
I’d agree with nearly all of that except we were significantly better than PSG over two legs and never looked in danger of going out. The Madrid semi was shocking though, especially the second leg
Yeah they played well mate no doubt.arabia is much better. and I beat Argentina. Japan won Germany. You should not detract from Spain. they are playing amazingly well believe me
Haha we’ve all done it!I took a small liberty to try to strengthen the argument a bit more. ;)
Why stop at one?
You're spot on - the notion that we improved after it was announced Pellegrino was to be replaced by Pep in the close season is simply bollocks. It was Pellers himself who revealed Pep's impending arrival in a press conference on 1 February 2016. At that point, we had 44 points from 23 games, three behind leaders Leicester (and with a better goal difference).
We then took 22 points from the last 15 games, a drop from over 1.9 points per game before the announcement to below 1.5 afterwards. We finished in fourth spot, 15 points off the top, and scraped CL qualification only on goal difference.
We'd already qualified for the League Cup final, which we won on penalties, and we squeezed past one of PSG's weaker modern incarnations to make the CL semi, only to put in a supine display against Real where we didn't even seem to try to win the tie. Neither of these things changes the reality of our dreadful league form once it was known Pellegrini was on the way out.