Tempering the Guardiola Optimism

The Charming Man is becoming The Stubborn Man. He wont leave, he wont change the defending crisis, he disrespects The FA Cup over the Chumps League which he wont win, he plays a counter attack style with the leakiest defence and he blames everything else but himself.

I'm tired of the old dear, i cannot wait for Guardiola to bring back some class, desire and respect.
 
3 defeats in 4 since we announced his was coming, 10 goals conceded to.
Tells you a lot about the attitude and mindset of a lot of our players and the ill advised timing of the statement.

The season has turned into a disaster and its looking almost certain that we won't win anything despite another summer upgrade.
 
What we must not do is go from one extreme to another and expect too little next season. The media is working hard to convince us that Pep has only had success at two clubs which would have been similarly successful had a monkey been appointed instead of Pep. This theory is based on the 'istry and tradition argument so beloved of the fans of one or two of our rivals. In fact Barca were certainly not the all devouring, best club side in the world or anything like it. They had won the CL in 2006, largely as a result of work don by Ferran and Txiki, but by the time Pep was appointed in 2008, they were busy working their way down the pan again.

At the end of season 2007-8 Barcelona had finished 3rd in La Liga, a whopping 18pts behind Real and 10 behind (Pellegrini's) Villareal. Both these clubs had done the double over Barca, which had only 67pts. They had only 67 pts, had lost 9 matches and scored 76 goals and let in 43. Next season they would have to come through the qualifying round of the CL.

Enter Pep. He did not spend a fortune in the transfer market and his only purchase of significance was Pique from you know who. This lad was of huge significance for the future but was hardly a stellar signing in 2008. More importantly Pep got rid of Ronaldinho and Deko, who were stellar names but also disruptive influences at the club.

After a slow start Pep's team got going. With 87 pts they won the league by 9pts, lost only 5 league matches (half as many as any other team), scored 105 goals (letting in only 35 in 38 matches), did a clean sweep of domestic honours, beat the biggest club in the world (which had hundreds of millions of fans locked out of the ground without tickets) to win the CL and entered the realms of legend by winning every major honour it could compete for in the calendar year. A season later the team set a record of 99 pts in the league. The dominant club of today is not the club to which Pep owes his success, but is, of course, the creation of Pep Guardiola: a club which wins more matches, loses fewer, scores more goals, lets in fewer and wins more trophies than ever before. At Bayern he has not (yet) won the CL but the performance of the team shows those same characteristics as Barca.

So, I'm going to stay very enthusiastic indeed, thanks.
 
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