Great read as always Gary, your knowledge of City is brilliant. Talking of brilliant, Pep probably needs a new word for what he has brought to this club.
This season has been unbelievable. He moved Sterling, Zinch and Jesus on, got a World Cup winner, a brilliant defender and the best striker in the world here, and made a profit of £50m in the process. And let’s be clear, without Pep here then Erling would be elsewhere.
He has destroyed a couple of myths too. Firstly the shit about Pep over thinking - in that definition he “over thinks” every day, every game, it’s what geniuses do - when it goes right it’s fine, when we lose a game then “over thinking” becomes a stick ladled with hindsight to beat him with, and still gets used years after the event. The man is Pure Genius.
Secondly, week after week we had loads of posters telling us how we fucked it up by selling Zinchenko and Jesus to arsenal. The fact is they were both into the last year of their contract, both wanted to move on for more regular football, and we got Haaland, Alvarez and Akanji for their money - we won that deal big time; both great lads but Jesus has 10 goals, Zinch proved he is a poor defender once arsenal got put under pressure.
Given how many years Pep has worked for us, the intensity he works with, I can’t believe he keeps doing it year after year. He also managed to move Cancelo on, one of our best players last season but seemingly a poor influence in the dressing room because Pep knew he could make a world class left back out of Nathan Ake - yet more “over thinking”!
Pep I fucking love you, you over thinking bald fraud xxx
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