zabbadabbado wrote:Nobody wants Pep sacked after all the success he has delivered us.
Fact is though, this season he has been way short of what should be expected from an elite manager.
Sure injuries have played a part in our down turn in form. But come on though...........,this Guy allegedly earns £25,000 000 a Season to manage us. We lose Rodri and the Wheels have completely come off. It is like he dose not have a fucking clue how to set us up right. It is really disturbing watching him make the same mistakes game after game. Picks walker with the Clown averaging two major fuck ups every game, picks Lewis to run around like a broken Duracell Bunny leaving us over exposed at the back. Still plays the stupid high line despite the squad obvious limitations because of age. I mean seriously, there are zero signs he knows how to adapt to what he has available get the best out of the Squad.
Reports starting to leak that our dressing room has become a toxic place. Some players are done with his crying and histrionics. Not sure how accurate it is but rumours Haalland has allegedly lost faith in the project and wants his Agent to sort out a move to Barcelona or Madrid next season. Tbh i am not sure how i feel about this if true. Sure he is a great player when he can be bothered, he gives me high maintenance Diva vibes with his body language. His Opta Stas suggest he can not be arsed lately. You have to be an idiot to believe all is well in our Camp right now. This slump is more than injuries.
In an ideal World Pep will fix this, but really can he ?.If some of the Players the players are done with him, how do we move forward ?
Spending £200 000 000 in January on a couple of average Premier League players is going to achieve nothing short term. We already have so much dead wood, and aging players to move on.
Likely we will need a period of transition where we will challenge for Top 4 whilst we wheel and deal in the transfer market.
Probably 3,4, good solid transfer Windows.
Pep is only committed for the next 2 years. It will take all that time just to fix this mess we are in.
Is it really a good idea panic buying in January, wasting money on average players, I don't think so.
Pep should be making the "Sum bigger than its parts ",and is failing miserably. This Squad is top 4 material, and we should be capable of achieving it with what we have as a bare minimum.
He is responsible with his shit tactics, shit game management ,egotistical stubbornness for compounding our major slump in form.
I don't want him to go.I would prefer he stay and sort this mess out. Fact is though i am not sure he can get us challenging in the next 2 years.
One has to do what is best for our Club, there is no room for sentiment in Football. Currently we are in Freefall. And none of us want to accept the reality of our situation because he is our Pep.Reality being we are in relegation form right now. With a manager who looks lost, is losing the Plot and the dressing room.
Very good post but I think unless pep changes his mentality we will not improve - he only knows one way (or he only wants to play one way ) and we are losing because of it .
Sure he’s the best manager in the world when he has all or most of his top players available but he’s shown us just how shit he is when he doesn’t have them - in all the seasons before we only missed one or 2 players (3max ) and he got away with it - this season he’s had no answer to replacing key players that are injured and instead moves players out of their preferred position to fill in holes they cannot possibly fill .
In reality he should have used his McAtees of the world more but it’s obvious he doesn’t trust them , which is fucking laughable when he keeps on trusting Walker and Gundo and also playing players like Nunes in areas he just cannot perform in .
One thing I’ve said and I’ll say it again - Id give him fuckall to spend in January and wait and see where we are end of the season .If he’s world class with great players available then he should show us that accolade is true when he has lesser skilled players available.
If he has the balls then he should stop crying about how shit he is and get to grips with the situation or step down and have done with it.