Interesting, but I've always thought that final 5% to get you from being a good team to winners is huge.Big test for Pep. The game has moved on and just trying to recreate another version of this City will probably not work. Wenger tried that at Arsenal and he and they just went steadily downhill so it's certainly not easy for a 'great' to reinvent themselves and adapt their thinking to a blank sheet and start again. We will see.
Interestingly, Arsenal have three ex City players (Jesus, Sterling and Zinchenko) and all look to have regressed since leaving City. So maybe the way City play is just mentally and physically exhausting. Remember Rodri complaining about the number of games last year?
Maybe, as others have said, we need a much larger squad so that burn out is avoided. We have 16 players earning more than £100,000 a week with 9 earning more than £200,000 a week! Bournemouth, who could overtake us in the League tomorrow, have 1 player earning £150,000 and the rest less than £100,000! So maybe, now that we are pretty much established as a top team we could attract really good players on 'realistic' sustainable wages? For instance, Antonee Robinson, Fulhams left back is on £50,000! Brentford's Brian Mbeumo is on £50,000. Matheus Cunha of Wolves is on £50,000. Now of course they would expect more at City and transfer fees are needed but all tree are good enough to get into the City squad without paying elite level wages.
I am beginning to wonder about thisPep won't be here at the start of next season. And it'll be good for him, he needs a break.
Also think he's lost the players.
Just seen that, not goodI can handle defeats and I’ve seen enough over the years but getting home and seeing Walker go down like a bag of shit has really really pissed me off. He’s the fucking Captain!! Get rid ASAP
Yeah, but the original poster gave credit to their manager. If you want to be a good football team ypu have to perform well. United have been here multiple times over the last 15 years. Picking up results while stinking the place out. It eventually ends in tears.They won't give a hoot about that when they've got the 3pts.
Everyone knew that already about the 3, they chose to do fuck all about it.Interesting, but I've always thought that final 5% to get you from being a good team to winners is huge.
I reckon a good manager could get a decent team from any group of players in the league, but only having some of the top 5% players and them performing will win the league for you.
The problem with our small elite squad is the fact at least 3 of them are forever injured!
Ake, Stones, De Bruyne are not putting in a full season of appearances between them. That is a huge loss.
No chance of that...like Purple Nose back in 2013, his vanity will nor allow him to walk out on a team he mouldedI think Pep is a gonner. As painful as it is to contemplate, he will walk before Xmas day.
That's not the point. The point is that Bournemouth are competitive in the Premier League with many players earning an eighth of our top paid players. What I am saying is that we do not need every single squad player to be world class and on £200,000 a week plus. We can have a high class squad backed up with a backbone of worthy players. For instance Pablo Zabaleta was not world class but certainly did more than a good job for us.Bournemouth barely break 10,000 crowds so they can’t justify higher salaries unless they’re winning trophies.
Whichever players he’s lost, get rid of.Pep won't be here at the start of next season. And it'll be good for him, he needs a break.
Also think he's lost the players.
By getting married.How can anyone have a none existent head?