Dimples wrote:IMO most of Pep's critics on this forum are over the top because:
1. The defence was targeted for improvement but we could not get our targets: Laporte, Bonucci, etc...
2. We did buy a second top class striker - Jesus
3. Pep's midfielders of choice are currently unavailable:
Gundogan injured and F1 suspended (unfairly when compared to Rojo, Fellani, Rooney and Zlatan's actions)
4. The attacking players are Peps choices, Sterling (probably), Brown, Sane, etc... and they are doing well BUT
Kun is not scoring (is he even trying?). To me it looks like Kun will be gone in the Summer.
5. The Sky/FA agenda anti us and pro Rags (get Rags in top 4 at our expense). That is costing us points directly and indirectly.
Penalties not given, F1 unavailable, etc...
We do have glaring weaknesses because of the above issues that they tried to address but could not.
The weaknesses are: 1. GK (A Pep mistake), 2. Defence (2 full backs + center half), 3. Kun. 4. A younger F1
5. No Steel/cojones/balle/polota/palla/bollar/liathróidí/myachi (we really really need this. Dare I say it Joey B or James Milner type of toughness).
IMO what will happen is:
1. All of the above five issues will be addressed this Summer.
2. IMO right now at boardroom level intense 'discussions' are taking place with the Sky/FA to ensure a level playing field.
It is inconceivable to me that our owners will not use their muscle to sort this out - pronto.
I believe they will prevail.
Write of this season. We might scrape top4 and with a kind draw progress in the CL (more suited to our defence).
Give Pep a break. Next season is the year to judge him.
Dimples wrote:IMO most of Pep's critics on this forum are over the top because:
1. The defence was targeted for improvement but we could not get our targets: Laporte, Bonucci, etc...
2. We did buy a second top class striker - Jesus
3. Pep's midfielders of choice are currently unavailable:
Gundogan injured and F1 suspended (unfairly when compared to Rojo, Fellani, Rooney and Zlatan's actions)
4. The attacking players are Peps choices, Sterling (probably), Brown, Sane, etc... and they are doing well BUT
Kun is not scoring (is he even trying?). To me it looks like Kun will be gone in the Summer.
5. The Sky/FA agenda anti us and pro Rags (get Rags in top 4 at our expense). That is costing us points directly and indirectly.
Penalties not given, F1 unavailable, etc...
We do have glaring weaknesses because of the above issues that they tried to address but could not.
The weaknesses are: 1. GK (A Pep mistake), 2. Defence (2 full backs + center half), 3. Kun. 4. A younger F1
5. No Steel/cojones/balle/polota/palla/bollar/liathróidí/myachi (we really really need this. Dare I say it Joey B or James Milner type of toughness).
IMO what will happen is:
1. All of the above five issues will be addressed this Summer.
2. IMO right now at boardroom level intense 'discussions' are taking place with the Sky/FA to ensure a level playing field.
It is inconceivable to me that our owners will not use their muscle to sort this out - pronto.
I believe they will prevail.
Write of this season. We might scrape top4 and with a kind draw progress in the CL (more suited to our defence).
Give Pep a break. Next season is the year to judge him.
Sister of fu wrote:Only Man City can get a manager of the calibre of Pep and destroy him in 6 months. Typical City alive and well.
On a serious note he needs to stop being arrogant admit his philosophy isn't working and change it and find a method that works with the tools he has. I have never in my 30 years of watching City seen a City team that is so easy to score against. We have zero leaders and zero back bone. No one to put a foot in. We have gone from Mancini tough to beat solid team to one with a very soft underbelly.
Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:john@staustell wrote:Trouble is he is constantly being out-thought by supposedly lesser managers with worse players
Presumably by out-thought you mean they defend in numbers and wait for our dickhead players to make the inevitable mistakes? Hardly out-thought.
Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:I don't trust him to sort this problem out at all.
sheblue wrote:Of course we have to give him until next season, and beyond. But the stark fact still remains that he needs players.
But will we get the right players we badly need in the next window. That's debatable.
Can't see much meaningful being done during this window.
Dimples wrote:IMO most of Pep's critics on this forum are over the top because:
1. The defence was targeted for improvement but we could not get our targets: Laporte, Bonucci, etc...
2. We did buy a second top class striker - Jesus
3. Pep's midfielders of choice are currently unavailable:
Gundogan injured and F1 suspended (unfairly when compared to Rojo, Fellani, Rooney and Zlatan's actions)
4. The attacking players are Peps choices, Sterling (probably), Brown, Sane, etc... and they are doing well BUT
Kun is not scoring (is he even trying?). To me it looks like Kun will be gone in the Summer.
5. The Sky/FA agenda anti us and pro Rags (get Rags in top 4 at our expense). That is costing us points directly and indirectly.
Penalties not given, F1 unavailable, etc...
We do have glaring weaknesses because of the above issues that they tried to address but could not.
The weaknesses are: 1. GK (A Pep mistake), 2. Defence (2 full backs + center half), 3. Kun. 4. A younger F1
5. No Steel/cojones/balle/polota/palla/bollar/liathróidí/myachi (we really really need this. Dare I say it Joey B or James Milner type of toughness).
IMO what will happen is:
1. All of the above five issues will be addressed this Summer.
2. IMO right now at boardroom level intense 'discussions' are taking place with the Sky/FA to ensure a level playing field.
It is inconceivable to me that our owners will not use their muscle to sort this out - pronto.
I believe they will prevail.
Write of this season. We might scrape top4 and with a kind draw progress in the CL (more suited to our defence).
Give Pep a break. Next season is the year to judge him.
mr_nool wrote:In the first official interview with Pep on the official site, he said that he hadn't prepared at all before starting his job at City - he wanted to start with a clean slate and without preconceptions.
I thought this sounded both very worrying and arrogant and voiced as much on here. However, the general consensus was that that was just something he said and that he would have been busy with assessing our squad and its strength and weaknesses and identifying possible transfer targets long before landing in Manchester.
But everything I've seen since then seems to point at Pep telling the truth in that interview. In other words, it's no wonder that he's been taken completely by surprise by the demands of the Premier League and by the weakness of our ageing squad.
As said above, I think this is quite arrogant and disrespectful to our club. When he went to Bayern he spent 6 months learning all he could about the club and German football, and even went the extra mile to learn the language. When he went here he was so sure of himself that he didn't do any homework at all?
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:I know it's all academic as well as being subjectively difficult to quantify but, allowing for any clangers he might have dropped, how many of the goals we've conceded would Joe have had a chance of saving and how many more points would we now have thanks to him ??
Moreover, how much more confident would our defence have been, with fewer goals being conceded.
As I say, it's all academic and I was just musing anyway, but the 'results', if it were somehow possible to extrapolate them, might even make Pep have a re-think.
BookJunior wrote:Mikhail Chigorin wrote:I know it's all academic as well as being subjectively difficult to quantify but, allowing for any clangers he might have dropped, how many of the goals we've conceded would Joe have had a chance of saving and how many more points would we now have thanks to him ??
Moreover, how much more confident would our defence have been, with fewer goals being conceded.
As I say, it's all academic and I was just musing anyway, but the 'results', if it were somehow possible to extrapolate them, might even make Pep have a re-think.
It doesn't take a genius to work out that the partnership between 2 centre halves and the goalkeeper is absolutely vital. It's an unbreakable law.
The best I ever saw in any team was between Corrigan, Watson and Doyle, Also the idea of defensive midfield specialists wasn't born possibly because we had Colin Bell.
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:I know it's all academic as well as being subjectively difficult to quantify but, allowing for any clangers he might have dropped, how many of the goals we've conceded would Joe have had a chance of saving and how many more points would we now have thanks to him ??
Moreover, how much more confident would our defence have been, with fewer goals being conceded.
As I say, it's all academic and I was just musing anyway, but the 'results', if it were somehow possible to extrapolate them, might even make Pep have a re-think.
Lee_R wrote:1 step back.. hopefully 2 steps forward.
Come on you lot.. remember when we had to sell SWP to pay the wages?..
Any other team in the world would have Pep as their manager.. so lets stop being spoilt cunts.
Kisses etc.
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