Look on the bright side, my friend. Navas in goal is an upgrade.Scrapping with the rags for 4th place ,given they already have one Trophy and have a hand on a 2nd is a massive disappointment. We spent the early season mocking the rags -well look at us now. Jesus was the only real upside of this Season but I'm not confident he won't play him at full back with Navas in goal.
Another disappointing season (so far).
Ever since we sacked Mancini and tried to replicate the Barca model (4-3-3, pass, pass, fucking pass) we've been boring and predictable.
The Etihad stopped being a fortress the moment Mancini left, our defence appears shambolic at times because our manager's (Pellegrini and now Pep) insist on playing to our new "philosophy" (oh how we took the piss out Van Gal at the scum for his "philosopheeeeeeee" to football, the greatest irony is that we have become that very club ourselves, we will play to our ridiculously open at the back, bordering on suicidal back passing between the goalie and defenders, slowly amble up the field and then spend the next 30 mins passing it around and finally have a shot which inevitably goes wide, philosopheeee!
That's my feeling as well,hope I'm totally wrong but think he has completely underestimated this league,but hasn't been helped by player recruitment or being fucked over in games...I wonder if he will stay the course next season.
Don't get me wrong, we'll never, ever, sack him. Not after putting the entire club on hold for four years in such a manner that basically let the entire football world know that Pep Guardiola is bigger than Manchester City.
I think he might walk if things don't go brilliantly. He already looks disinterested a lot of the time. Then he will rock up at juventus , win a few titles and cups in a much easier league.
Feel sorry for Pep because you cant polish turds. He's got too many substandard players he's working with. Next year will be interesting and should be better.
Before i start, i'm a huge Pep fan, he will bring us untold success in future years.
but
Pep is supposed to be the worlds best manager. Mourinho has the worse squad yet he has won a trophy already and is on course for Top 4 and success in Europe. I'd rather have long term Pep than short term Mourinho but it was Pep who got rid of a solid goalkeeper which for me has been the cause of our disappointing season. With Hart we would have had an extra 6 points minimum and be still in the title race and comfortably in the top 4. He may not be able to polish turds but he brought a turd in.
Pretty shit to be honest. He'll need another couple of hundred million to try sort it out, but couldn't any manager create a successful team with a few hundred million pound investment? I know I'll probably get attacked for even asking that question but I expected a lot more from this season, people on here fooled me in to thinking pep was houdini.
Before i start, i'm a huge Pep fan, he will bring us untold success in future years.
but
Pep is supposed to be the worlds best manager. Mourinho has the worse squad yet he has won a trophy already and is on course for Top 4 and success in Europe. I'd rather have long term Pep than short term Mourinho but it was Pep who got rid of a solid goalkeeper which for me has been the cause of our disappointing season. With Hart we would have had an extra 6 points minimum and be still in the title race and comfortably in the top 4. He may not be able to polish turds but he brought a turd in.