Pep's contract situation

[Stoned Rose]

Needs to make a decision.

One year extension won’t wash due to the fact this side is reaching the end of its cycle.

He either stays and does a refresh/rebuild or he bounces and a new kid comes in.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I think AN issue is that Academy starlets have failed to breakthrough and only provide profits from which to purchase talent, albeit at a ratio of about 5 to 1.

It’d be nice to see the current crop getting a look in get some more experience, even if it is 5 mins here, 10 there. They need to understand the speed, strength and nous required at the top, as the biggest problem they gave adapting to is time on the ball. O’Reilly, especially, looks like he has the goods if he would just speed up his game. Big, relatively skillful, but slow to release the ball and a little too languid at present.

It feels like we should have at least 3 or 4 Academy products in the team after 10 years of cultivating and, frankly, poaching young talent from all over the world, but we really only have 2, and one of them has been slow rolled for the last 4 years.

Time for O’Reilly to stake a claim, allowing Gundo to get half a game here and there, and Wright to get a chance as an 8. Managed to get himself into a few decent positions against Spurs and I feel like he really could be the next Academy product to make it at City.

Anyway, I think two transfer windows and the likes of Foden, Lewis, O’Reilly, Wright, Simpson-Pusey…maturing in the squad over the next 8 months could be the fillip this current squad needs.

It remains to be seen whether Pep has the zest required to refresh and revive this aging squad.

 

[city2]

All good things come to a end sooner or later, Pep and City know this and will have a plan moving forward now if this means Pep signing up for 2 more years great, if not the club already know who’s taking over and will back him in the market. City are no longer a Micky mouse outfit and I have complete faith in the owners unless they are planning on selling, which deserves a thread on its own.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

If Walker is the problem, sell Walker, keep Pep!
If KDB is the problem, sell KDB, keep Pep!
If Rodri is the problem, sell Rodri, keep Pep!
If Foden is the problem, sell Foden, keep Pep!
If someone else is the problem, sell someone else, keep Pep!

Glad that Cancelo is gone! Palmer good fucking riddance.

Pep needs to stay.. and I'm not going to change my mind..

 

[Keeper!]

Needs to make a decision.

One year extension won’t wash due to the fact this side is reaching the end of its cycle.

He either stays and does a refresh/rebuild or he bounces and a new kid comes in.

This is my take, we need to rebuild and a one year deal is not enough for me.

And if Alonso comes onto the market this summer do we risk losing him ( If he is the one we want) for one more year of Pep?

 

[Coatigan]

Needs to make a decision.

One year extension won’t wash due to the fact this side is reaching the end of its cycle.

He either stays and does a refresh/rebuild or he bounces and a new kid comes in.

I disagree.

People are overreacting. Because we lost our first game. In what feels like 20 years in the league.

Nothing has changes.

We still have Haaland Foden Doku Savinho, Gvardiol and other young players. We still need to find repalcements for senior players going past their peak. But still better than most at their peak.

One year more or less changes absolutely nothing. Nobody is doing a wholesale overhaul, Pep or another, one two or no years. It will happen naturally one way or another.

 

[Damocles]

We've 9 players who are 30, or 30+, which does include 3 goalkeepers tbf along with 3 players aged 29.

At some stage we are going to have to either shit or get off the pot with regards the 1st team squad, and a rebuild happens either under Pep or his successor.

Hopefully part of the rebuild includes players from the Academy that are good enough. CTID

30 is not old in football terms. Feel like FM helped invent that notion somewhere down the line, not sure.

 

[waspish]

I disagree.

People are overreacting. Because we lost our first game. In what feels like 20 years in the league.

Nothing has changes.

We still have Haaland Foden Doku Savinho, Gvardiol and other young players. We still need to find repalcements for senior players going past their peak. But still better than most at their peak.

One year more or less changes absolutely nothing. Nobody is doing a wholesale overhaul, Pep or another, one two or no years. It will happen naturally one way or another.

Agree, these players have played at a very high level many the last 4/6 years and the majority have won it all, at the moment it's all catching up with the squad ! They do really need a rest but they ain't getting it maybe a few int eh international break and after that we see where we are? Maybe Pep contract situation be sorted to!

 

[GaudinoMotors]

2 year extension and 4 very busy, no nonsense windows please.

 

[Coatigan]

Agree, these players have played at a very high level many the last 4/6 years and the majority have won it all, at the moment it's all catching up with the squad ! They do really need a rest but they ain't getting it maybe a few int eh international break and after that we see where we are? Maybe Pep contract situation be sorted to!

Not denying that at all, nor that a few key players need replacing.

But not buying that two years vs one 'fixes' that.

We signed Haaland in what was Pep's last year and he extended after that. We will sign players when the right ones are available regardless of whether he has one year or two, or 6 months on his contract.