Pep Has To Go The End Of This Season

[Harry Dowd scored]

Fuck the summer fuck him off to Gaza now

[carl_feedthegoat]

I heard he gave a fiery speech in Barcelona the other night and really got the crowd going - shame the cunt cannot do the same for the City players against an embarrassingly ravaged Spurs team.

Hes a has been..yesterdays man. Time for a new manager this summer.

[bigblue]

A managerless chelsea, managerless rags, bobo glimt, and now the worst sprus team I've ever seen. We are horrendous right now and Pep has no answers.

[Harry Dowd scored]

A managerless chelsea, managerless rags, bobo glimt, and now the worst sprus team I've ever seen. We are horrendous right now and Pep has no answers.

To be fair they had 8 reserves

[Harry Dowd scored]

I heard he gave a fiery speech in Barcelona the other night and really got the crowd going - shame the cunt cannot do the same for the City players against an embarrassingly ravaged Spurs team.

Hes a has been..yesterdays man. Time for a new manager this summer.

Fucking stealing a living he has the opposite to imposter syndrome

[Bear60]

He is now turning this team to rat shit He's been great and thanks but them days are over we need fresh blood What are Vinnies plans for the future ?

[Indianablue]

The stats are largely irrelevant, you can’t say that a team was worse or better on the basis of scoring 7 goals less or conceding a handful of goals more from one season to the next and calling it the start of a decline. The fact is what we saw on the pitch, we’d not beaten Madrid in the CL before over two legs, they beat us before and have beaten us since but by god they didn’t come close during the treble season. I stand by what I say, I certainly didn’t any sign whatsoever that we were in decline, if a team can win a treble under decline then I’m a Dutchman. We won the league the following season too, admittedly we were not at the sparkling brilliance of the season before we had to grind it out a little, but you cannot be in decline and win the league. In my view the decline started at the beginning of the 24-25 season, we won the first four or five games but not with any swagger and we could all see the writing on the wall and then it all went pear shaped and nothing has really changed, we had a bit of consistency a few weeks back but we are still shit. As I stated in the first sentence of my post, when was the last time we were at it ? The answer is 22-23 as outlined by the matches highlighted and there were many others too. Yes there were a handful of brain farts as there are every season, but that was the pinnacle for me. I write this with respect but to claim that a treble winning side showed signs of decline is absurd to me.

Winning the treble is the pinnacle of achievement - but it's not automatically the primary measure of "performance", and that's a really important nuance. The trophies signalled the peak achievement in that particular era, but it wasn't the era's statistical performance peak.

If you want to understand how good a team truly is, you always look first at the league because over 38 league games, variance fades - wheras cup games outcomes can be over-amplified by minor variables like a bad referreeing call, a deflection, Pep's tactical brainfarts etc.

To win a treble you have to be a remarkable team, but you also need to have less of that cup variation/amplification - or that variation goes in your favour at key times. Otherwise we'd have surely won a treble in 2017 and 2018 when we were most dominant!

By repeatable indicators (points, goals conceded, xG/xGA, shot volume, possession), the data proves empiricallty that we were considerably less dominant in the treble season than 2021–22, which however we want to dress it up, proves that performance had peaked the previous year.

Points: 93 (2021–22) → 89 (2022–23)
Wins/Draws/Losses: 29–6–3 → 28–5–5 (more losses)
Goals scored: 99 → 94
Goals conceded: 26 → 33
xG (chance quality/volume aggregated): 92.03 → 81.97
xGA (quality conceded): 25.09 → 33.63
Shots: 713 → 600
Possession: 68.4% → 65.4%

By all the same measures, city were most dominant in 2017 to 2019, they fell back a little the next 2 years and hit peak dominance again the year before winning the treble, since when we have had a pretty linear 3 year decline.

While the trophies tell one story, we can't simply ignore the data or say it's irrelevant - at elite performance level, the data shows decline long before anything else is visible, and you can bet your house City knows and has all the evidence - for me therefore the question is why the fuck they didn't strengthen immediately after the CL final.

Interestingly, using the same measures for this season, we're practically identical in terms of overall performance from last year, but the nuance statistically is the xGA is significantly better, while our xG has declined - the result is that we see a markedly better league position than last year, but much of that can be explained by the drop off in performance of both Liverpool and Chelsea, rather than us actually being any better overall. It does also show however the argument that defence is more important than attack in terms of league position.

If the xG situation doesn't improve in the data by the end of the season, Guardiola doesn't deserve to be here next year.

Good detail, great interpretation of the stats. In summary our football has been deteriorating for 4 seasons. It has also become boring to watch and over the last 2 seasons inexcusable results have been piling up. His time is up. He has no interest in this club.
What message does it send to the dressing room when he goes off playing politics?

[Harry Dowd scored]

I haven’t checked it but I was just informed we haven’t scored in the second half of a PL game this year

[sniffer]

We could have scored four or five and put that to bed but no we try to defend what we have, invite the opposition to attack us and turn into a complete fuck up, time and time again. Its all down to Peps tactics, negativity and obsession with possession.

[PeterParker]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1407155720796807

[Sparklehorse]

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Two Cunts.....piss boiled !!!

[Indianablue]

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A pair of bollocks

[PeterParker]

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Two Cunts.....piss boiled !!!

I think that is AI made, pal.

[Mase]

[nottsblue]

Wonder who the other two are

[Blue In Bolton]

Wonder who the other two are

Maresca and Fabregas apparently.

[PeterParker]

Wonder who the other two are

Maresca and Fabregas apparently.

Fabregas for me, rather than Maresca. Como are a joy to watch

[Nick]

Wow they are carrick levels.

Surely it would be enrique?

[Mase]

Wow they are carrick levels.

Surely it would be enrique?

Contract until 2027 he won't leave PSG until then

[Nick]

Oh so it was bollocks about leaving in the summer.

Ffs slim pickings.