The Post Pep Blues?

[mancboy]

The clue is in the thread title Post Pep Blues. It was always going to happen and its rational to wonder what happens after losing our greatest ever manager.

If we want to win the league next year and do better in CL we are going to have to recruit well. We have just lost two incredible players one of whom played a crucial part in this season. Replacing them will be tough... hence the comment about who is a 'must buy' out there and the choices are few. Very few.
Your personal insults are just emotion based on sweet FA and ignorance of other supporters' history.
I was around well before the 80s. A 'fact' you got wrong.
Spoiled? Maybe. Something wrong in wanting our success to continue?

No spoiled as in underestimating what we have in place now and while u say my 'personal' insults are based on sweet fa your last reply told me everything i needed to know on a few counts, firstly the entitled nature of your original posts about must buys which typically is not something that city do and secondly if you were around pre the 80s as you claim to be and i have no reason to disbelieve you then i would expect you to have a much thicker skin and better sense of humour than to consider being called spoilt a personal insult given the shit we faced bk then and into the 90s, thirdly there is nothing wrong with wanting our success to continue but to think we are entitled to it is the preserve of rags, dippers and tarquins is that a road we want to take and finally ignoring the exceptional ownership and structure of this club is something we shouldnt do and makes life not so grim.

Feel how you want that is your right but if you feel that the tone of your original post wasnt somewhat entitled and you want to ignore the good things we have in place right now then that is your prerogative.

 

[John Wayne]

Still hurting.

 

[The perfect fumble]

A bit of fluff...

This professional campaign titled '#PEP-SI' was published in Guatemala in May, 2021. It was created for the brand: Pepsi, by ad agency: El taier DDB Centro.

 

[Eaststander1]

Bit of a play on words. Have to say I’m feeling very sad today, seeing Pep on the touch line for a final time yesterday hit me like a brick. It’s been coming, it had to happen one day but the end came about so quickly I’m in a state of shock I think. I can’t quite put into words how I feel. Gutted, uncertain, nostalgic, joyful.



Then there’s the other answer to the title question , what will “The Post Pep Blues” be like?



It’s certainly the end of an era, will we go on and win trophies? Will we go the same way as Arsenal after Wenger, Utd after Fergie? I hope not but it’s certainly a real possibility.



Is the next manager a stop gap until a top name becomes available? Kompany?



20 trophies in ten years! We can’t expect that again surely? I think if we get a quarter of that we’ll be doing very, very well.



One thing is for certain. No one will ever live up to, or beat Pep’s record. So we’ll have to be realistic in our expectations and patient with our frustrations.



What are everyone reflections on “The post Pep Blues”?

Can't say I disagree with anything there, and yes, I've been suffering from a severe bout of 'Post Pep Blues' since the day he left the club.

Mind you I'm really missing Bernardo too, there will never be another player like him, he was such an influential player and personality to have around the place.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Only hit me when I saw him arrive back in Barcelona and realised he wouldn’t be flying back.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Can't say I disagree with anything there, and yes, I've been suffering from a severe bout of 'Post Pep Blues' since the day he left the club.

Mind you I'm really missing Bernardo too, there will never be another player like him, he was such an influential player and personality to have around the place.

We could do with some 'chamber' over at the Academy where yer put in the over-30s, give 'em a good rinse and they pop out as 23 yr olds.

 

[Eaststander1]

We could do with some 'chamber' over at the Academy where yer put in the over-30s, give 'em a good rinse and they pop out as 23 yr olds.

Lol, if only eh .. if only !

 

[East Level 2]

We've broken records for the past decade. But records are there to be broken and we might find an even better manager in the future. Could be a long wait though.

 

[Saddleworth2]

We've broken records for the past decade. But records are there to be broken and we might find an even better manager in the future. Could be a long wait though.

Looking back at the last 70 years, Pep is statistically the best there has been and has produced the highest level of sustained football by any manager/coach. The chances we will ever see his like again are pretty slim mate. Since 2000, we have also seen Ferguson, Ancelloti, Mourinho and Zidane (although I nearly didn't count him). If we get one of the dominant coaches in the next ten years we surely will win stuff but find a better manager than Pep?

 

[East Level 2]

Looking back at the last 70 years, Pep is statistically the best there has been and has produced the highest level of sustained football by any manager/coach. The chances we will ever see his like again are pretty slim mate. Since 2000, we have also seen Ferguson, Ancelloti, Mourinho and Zidane (although I nearly didn't count him). If we get one of the dominant coaches in the next ten years we surely will win stuff but find a better manager than Pep?

Why not? I accept it's unlikely but there are four major pots to win each season and a few others so 21 or 22 over ten seasons is possible. However, the coach will need another set of great players to achieve it, and several recent signings won't help the cause.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Why not? I accept it's unlikely but there are four major pots to win each season and a few others so 21 or 22 over ten seasons is possible. However, the coach will need another set of great players to achieve it, and several recent signings won't help the cause.

Why not? Because the guy who is the greatest manager in the last 50 years could 'only' do 20 and smashed every conceivable record doing it. It is highly unlikely that it is ever done again in England in any club. Book mark this post for 20 years time and let my descendants know who won this discussion. ;-)

 

[Father Paul]

Firstly... grim was the feeling of losing pep.
Secondly I was around from mid 70s
Thirdly... I always want success for City. We may not always have it, but I always want the best for us. Staying at the top isnt easy but in order to do so (or attempt to do so) means recruiting well.

We arent competing with Luton anymore. We are competing with Real Madrid and Bayern.
It would be all too easy to play the 'oh the shit we endured in the past' card and claim anything else is a bonus but that is disrespecting the transformation made. We should be aiming never to return to that position again. In fact that really was a relatively small period of time in our entire history which is often thrown at us as 'where we came from' - it never was.

I will put your outburst down to emotion. There is a huge difference between spoilt and wanting to sustain us as one of the best clubs in Europe which is where we are now.
We have been well below our best all season and thankfully so have a number of other teams.
We won two trophies... great.
Those trophies count for nothing come next season. That is how Pep thought and its how all great managers have thought. It should be how we think as fans. We aim to win everything. We accept things sportingly if we dont manage it.

Great post. Our objective should be to remain at the top table. What we suffered in the now distant past needs to be the motivation to continue improving and winning. The objective should be to win the league at least every four years and the CL every ten. To achieve this on top of sustained investment we must ensure top class recruitment and management. This won't be easy and may not be attainable, but it has to be the goal.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

I don’t fear the future, it has been a great decade with Pep but it is clear that the club will continue to build on solid foundations, no matter what the outcome of the 115.