United (A) - Sat 14th Jan, 12:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[City of Troy]

That must be the longest trial in history.

Harold shipman case was quicker

 

[Pelegrinni]

I hope Pep let the boys watch out for Martial if he plays and his sneaky dives in the box.

 

[Mariosfireworks]

"time the real City showed up"; "Pep stopped fucking about his harebrained ideas" only shows how harebrained is Your mind. Competing on all fronts, you obviously needs to rotate, its not only about performance stictly, but also about chemistry within dressing room, to allow many players to be involved, refresh. Sometimes they wont show up, but in the bigger picture their even forced involvement is at the greatest need.

Its also mind blowing to call for stopping experiments. Football at highest level is incredibly competitive these days, if You think, as You wrote, that one should not make changes in a way you play and you will simply dominates year after year, sums up your line of thinking preety well.

My recommendation for You is to support some Fifa teams, there you have a chance for such consistency.

And over years actually, only Pep has reached such level of consistency, many others had great success, but usually in a very short term perspective (i.e. Tuchel, Heynckes, even Klopp has noticeable breaks).

What about when you only have 1 game left in the season and the chance to win the trophy that Pep himself has said he wants, against a team that we are better than, and Pep decides to experiment that night and we lose 1-0?

 

[IronsideKozuch]

What about when you only have 1 game left in the season and the chance to win the trophy that Pep himself has said he wants, against a team that we are better than, and Pep decides to experiment that night and we lose 1-0?

so many ifs and maybes, obviously puts at once in extremal situation.
I would say very easily, that he is one who proofs over a decade at the very highest level, that when he wants to experiment, You allow him blindly, shut the fuck up and wait for results, because so far they have always been there.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

That must be the longest trial in history.

Judge sent jury out this week and told them they would accept a lesser majority?

I had heard a few weeks back some of the stuff was falling by the wayside, but plenty of charges to consider.

 

[JWCH-99]

Judge sent jury out this week and told them they would accept a lesser majority?

I had heard a few weeks back some of the stuff was falling by the wayside, but plenty of charges to consider.

I’ve been told he’s extremely confident he will get off all charges…

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I'm a little worried that Peps lost a few in the locker room, his comments about attitude and body language is probably trying to get a reaction from them but it's not happened. Some of the players could be annoyed with where they've been playing this season position wise

He's got one from Mahrez of late, but he outed him for a lack of fitness earlier in the season, did the same with Sergio?

Pep has also said he saw something wrong in Foden's body language after the World Cup, and stuck the knife in to Phillips?

It's perhaps the first time we haven't had a galvanising personality like Vinny, Dave or Fern to be on hand.

 

[paulchapo]

"time the real City showed up"; "Pep stopped fucking about his harebrained ideas" only shows how harebrained is Your mind. Competing on all fronts, you obviously needs to rotate, its not only about performance stictly, but also about chemistry within dressing room, to allow many players to be involved, refresh. Sometimes they wont show up, but in the bigger picture their even forced involvement is at the greatest need.

Its also mind blowing to call for stopping experiments. Football at highest level is incredibly competitive these days, if You think, as You wrote, that one should not make changes in a way you play and you will simply dominates year after year, sums up your line of thinking preety well.

My recommendation for You is to support some Fifa teams, there you have a chance for such consistency.

And over years actually, only Pep has reached such level of consistency, many others had great success, but usually in a very short term perspective (i.e. Tuchel, Heynckes, even Klopp has noticeable breaks).

No it doesn't. Obviously tactics change but some of Peps of late have been ludicrous and cost us or almost cost us games. He is guilty of overthinking at times and confusing the players in the process. Our best first eleven should beat most teams in the world eight out of ten times. Playing players out of their normal position is leveling up the game for the opposition. It's hard enough dealing with shit biased officials without making our job harder ourselves.

I've supported this club for over fifty years, over half of that we were pretty average to poor so I'm no Johnny come lately only here because we are successful.

Pep is a very successful coach, one of the best in world football but he isn't God and he makes mistakes. Right now he seems on a mission to experiment, whether it's boredom or not who knows?.Some of our performances have suffered as a direct result of his tinkering. Now all this tinkering may stumble on a formation that moves us onto another level and he'll be hailed a genius again. Time will tell.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

What about when you only have 1 game left in the season and the chance to win the trophy that Pep himself has said he wants, against a team that we are better than, and Pep decides to experiment that night and we lose 1-0?

That was no experiment that night it's a system he had played with great success I think in 18/19 season wen fernandinho got injured.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I’ve been told he’s extremely confident he will get off all charges…

He was also extremely confident he was a top footballer ;)

Without anyone on here going in to detail, it would seem a few things have not progressed.