Now thats called a gift ! Going to start reading mine as well.Got Pep Confidential for fathers day and within the first 50 or so pages I could see exactly why we are after the players we are, and not those we expected at the end of the season, especially with Stones. The more I get through the book the more I can't wait for the season to get under way.
Sorry Guv.
Pull your finger out Txiki, you twat, the transfer window is open next week & we've only signed one world class player..
Got Pep Confidential for fathers day and within the first 50 or so pages I could see exactly why we are after the players we are, and not those we expected at the end of the season, especially with Stones. The more I get through the book the more I can't wait for the season to get under way.
Now thats called a gift ! Going to start reading mine as well.
Lowers the age of the squad as well,i would be happy with thatIf we can get those signed I think we are off to a pretty good start transfer-wise. Gündogan, Nolito, Stones and Sane sounds like a pretty good quartett to me.
One of the many things that emerges from that book (apart from the fact that Pep is a bit, well, mental about football…) is that he is an exceptionally gifted "reader" of individual players, knowing exactly when to be a bit harsh with one player, knowing when to put the arm round the shoulder of another and just a few words in his ear. Indeed, knowing when to do one or the other at given points in the season with the same player. That is why I'm very, very excited to see what he can do with Sterling next season. Everybody, obviously, but especially him.
He will not try to get us to play like Barca Mark 2, or Bayern Mark 2 — he's clearly not interested in rehearsing the past — but to get us to play like us. To look at us, assess our strengths and potentialities, and play to the full extent of those.