Totaly agree with your first sentence, but that is the manager's responsibility to get those player's out of the team.Far too many players yesterday were not interested or showed any desire. I'm not sticking up for Pellers on this occasion as his team selection did not fit well with the opposition we were facing, but for players not to be giving 100% is unforgiveable.
For me, the players should give there all to the manager, but more importantly to the match going fan who pay good money to watch them
One of the most important roles of the manager is to motivate and inspire. Like Ranieri, Klopp and Maureen for example. Pellers' is failing to do so.
I'm not disagreeing with you fella, but once on the pitch, the players have to discharge their responsibility
I fully expect our season to implode. We might win the Capital One, but that's about it.
The players today didn't seem interested.
Leicester might be top of the league, but they are no world beaters.
Did Bayern players stop performing when pep was announced as there new manager to be?
Do the Bayern Team play for City?
My response was to a post that certain players have switched of because pep was announced my point was Bayern players didn't and win the treble.
That's true but maybe the Bayern team are serial winners and we are not!
The majority of our squad have won trophies
The statement clearly was not planned.
MP inadvertently let it slip out last week, and then the club had to back it up with a statement.
I think we have to prioritise the league, yes we have a carling cup final and yes I think we should really go for it but the FA cup should put out every kid we can, Bollocks the FA cup. We can't do this with 14 uninterested knackered players. I really want the title, not intested in putting it at risk for a cup run.
Such a predictable thread this. If we'd won yesterday we'd all be delirious being top of the league.
Obviously we're not right but the reasons are many. You COULD argue that Pellers has got us higher than where we really should be with over the age players and lacking his senior midfield creativity. No one predicted Silva's drop in form, and with Nasri and now Navas and KdB out, we've been hit harder than anyone with injuries in my opinion as this area is crucial to our system. Not that any of the critics will point this out.
Our biggest error is not having a plan B.
I think we have to prioritise the league, yes we have a carling cup final and yes I think we should really go for it but the FA cup should put out every kid we can, Bollocks the FA cup. We can't do this with 14 uninterested knackered players. I really want the title, not intested in putting it at risk for a cup run.
Didn't look that inadvertent to me.The statement clearly was not planned.
MP inadvertently let it slip out last week, and then the club had to back it up with a statement.
The statement clearly was not planned.
MP inadvertently let it slip out last week, and then the club had to back it up with a statement.
This has now affected our squad, many of whom now don't seemingly care after yesterday's disgrace. Just like the end of Bobby's reign.
The season now is on the brink of ruins with nothing to show despite major summer investment.
This combined with our chronic injuries and dreadful form has ruined us.
I've never been a fan of pellers but he's going. It's now up to the players to fight for us. If they are down about him leaving and aren't putting in the effort then they can always fuck off with him. They have a choice now, be fucking mediocre and embarrass yourselves and the club by giving less than your best or play like champions and prove to Guardiola you have the heart of a lion and some pride still left.Never mind the title, we're at real risk of having the world's best manager and not even qualifying for the CL.
What's that tired old cliche about the definition of insanity?
Tim of the Oak quite neatly summed up my responses to your assertions here, but I will expound upon what he said for me. The difference is that the Bayern side Pep inherited almost 3 years ago are better than City are now. Certainly they weren't the defensive shambles we are now, but they also weren't fantastically over-reliant on a single striker as we are too.
The Bayern team Pep took over only shed Tymoschuk (due to age), Gomez and Gustavo, and none of them had played more than about 30 games for a team which had clocked up 54 matches the previous year. The other players they let go were basically reserve team players. To replace them, he basically brought in Gotze and Thiago.
By contrast, depending on which source you read, the press are saying Pep plans on making between eight and a dozen signings to completely reboot our entire squad. Additionally, the team Pep took over in Munich had come off the back of winning a treble. We come off the back of probably having thrown away a quadruple to win nothing. Maybe a League Cup, but we're not winning anything else. The Bayern players Pep took over had reason to believe they might keep their places whereas it's very obvious ours that some of our squad has between a 0 and 0.1% chance of staying, and a half-dozen others will only stay if we run out of money to replace them (FFP and all that) or if the squad harmony is falling too low from the sheer volume of new signings.
MP didn't "inadvertently let it slip out". It wasn't a "if I'm still here next season, I will...oh wait, did I said "if"?" moment, it was a very deliberate "before I finish, I will tell you that I talked with the club and...". He absolutely meant to say that, and I don't think any of us can criticise Pellegrini for speaking out of line regardless of everyone's individual thoughts on him, so I just can't see that he let it out just to get it off his chest. If it sounded impromptu then I would argue that sometimes when you go into a meeting of some sort knowing you need to say one thing but you can't say it until the end then this exact type of thing tends to happen - you lose track of what you were going to say and then just as everyone starts to dismiss you can catch yourself and have to do a "oh by the way, one last thing" type comment. That is exactly what happened here.
If you believe the MEN they did an interesting article on the timeline of the whole process and said that the club offered Pellegrini the choice on how to break the news and when, and he said that he wanted to release it himself. This makes sense because any other way that it could've happened would make it sound like we had left him out of the process entirely, which would look bad on him even if it would admittedly look worse on the club. I think that this statement was entirely planned and everyone involved knew it was coming.
because most of them are not used/can't be arsed to work their socks off .....pep will demand 100% from every one of them and tbh from that team today only hart ota dinho and aguero will walk right now in a pep team
No but im not alone in having this opinion.
It doesn't fit the holistic approach of the club. We are playing one way and one way only. The manager and players have agreed to this, and the hope is to have many more ups than downs in the season.And there we have it. I know he will never do it, but why the fuck can't we set up more defensively against these teams that have the ability to hurt us?