kaz7
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Pep always an annouces his decision in the late nov break so can you chill the fuck out
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Pep's contract situation
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Rammy Blue
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It’s not the late November break, it’s the break after the games this weekend!Pep always an annouces his decision in the late nov break so can you chill the fuck out
Saddleworth2
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its consistent with what has gone on since Txiki arrived to be honest.It shouldn't have been let come to this though. Txiki for all the praise he has got has been hit and miss for a while now. What if any part Pep played in this who knows.
These have been his major acquisitions:
13/14
Fernandinho
Jovetic
Negredo
Navas
Demechelis
14/15
Mangala
Bony
Fernando
Sagna
15/16
De Bruyne
Stirling
Otamendi
Delph
Iheanacho
16/17
Stones
Sane
Jesus
Gundo
Bravo
Nolito
Zinchenko
17/18
Laporte
Mendy
Walker
Silva
Ederson
Danilo
Luiz
18/19
Mahrez
19/20
Rodri
Cancelo
20/21
Dias
Ake
Torres
21/22
Alvarez
Grealish
22/23
Haaland
Akanji
Gomez
Phillips
23/24
Guardiol
Nunes
Doku
Kovecic
24/25
Savinho
It shows how long it takes to build a squad of the quality we have. It goes back to 15/16 and the next couple of windows were crucial in building Peps initial squad and then a couple of signings every window since. Midfield and defence are ageing though and its not a tweak we need its a renewal like when Pep started. Lots of successes in there, some good tactical signings and quite a few that have failed. Shows how difficult it is. Since 2019 we have picked up 5 or 6 players who still form the spine of the squad. I'm not counting Savinho, Doku or Nunes in that as to me they are still very much unproven as to the standard we require to win multiple trophies each season. We are reliant on Phil and Kevin to create and when they are not firing/injured we really struggle. I think its time for another transfer window like 10/11 and 11/12. Multiple first team players that can hit the ground running.
Brightwell Bros.
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its consistent with what has gone on since Txiki arrived to be honest.
These have been his major acquisitions:
13/14
Fernandinho
Jovetic
Negredo
Navas
Demechelis
14/15
Mangala
Bony
Fernando
Sagna
15/16
De Bruyne
Stirling
Otamendi
Delph
Iheanacho
16/17
Stones
Sane
Jesus
Gundo
Bravo
Nolito
Zinchenko
17/18
Laporte
Mendy
Walker
Silva
Ederson
Danilo
Luiz
18/19
Mahrez
19/20
Rodri
Cancelo
20/21
Dias
Ake
Torres
21/22
Alvarez
Grealish
22/23
Haaland
Akanji
Gomez
Phillips
23/24
Guardiol
Nunes
Doku
Kovecic
24/25
Savinho
It shows how long it takes to build a squad of the quality we have. It goes back to 15/16 and the next couple of windows were crucial in building Peps initial squad and then a couple of signings every window since. Midfield and defence are ageing though and its not a tweak we need its a renewal like when Pep started. Lots of successes in there, some good tactical signings and quite a few that have failed. Shows how difficult it is. Since 2019 we have picked up 5 or 6 players who still form the spine of the squad. I'm not counting Savinho, Doku or Nunes in that as to me they are still very much unproven as to the standard we require to win multiple trophies each season. We are reliant on Phil and Kevin to create and when they are not firing/injured we really struggle. I think its time for another transfer window like 10/11 and 11/12. Multiple first team players that can hit the ground running.
It seems to me that we have been rebuilding in phases (defence coming out of COVID, attack over the last two seasons, and midfield was to start...now?) and that the injury crisis has made this acute. Just a lot of spinning plates.