by PrezIke » Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:22 am
If Pep wants out, btw, then of course he should go.
I don't think there is one smidgen of legit evidence he's sabotaging the club or doesn't care.
We're going through more transition in the squad, whilst Liverpool have upped their game and resentment + desire to beat us is higher than ever where Pep has perhaps come to realise that City will NEVER be loved in England during his tenure, no matter how good he or the team is on the pitch. I believe he also sees Klopp being basically Sir Klopp to most, even as a good number hate Liverpool they don't get the same treatment because they don't have a Sheik owner "sportswashing" nor is Klopp called a "chequebook manager".
How he chooses to handle that is up to him, but I think he also relishes such challenges to shut up the critics, also as motivation for the team. He's shown enough of that to me and wants the club to succeed. He is not just a hired gun, he's tried to really integrate into the city and club as far as I understand, and his friends are in high positions so why would he hurt their own success?
That sounds a bit mad to hurt your friends, Txiki and Soriano, who you came here to work with and who give him the power he never had elsewhere.
Liverpool/Klopp and our defence (again) is the next challenge. I think he's up for it for at least 1 more season because Pep is a feisty, stubborn MFin competitor. We are so good due to this now. So he concedes to Klopp and goes to Juve or wherver? He left Barca and Bayern not because of losing, but because the club management was not with him.
Is he questioning things at times? I don't doubt it. Maybe he is concerned with how he can't get love in the UK and thinks no matter what, but I also think that for his own legacy to come back after this season to beat Klopp's Liverpool, win the CL, etc. will be a crowning achievement to his own and would taste that damn good for City fans too, you must be aware.
Let's see how it plays out. I could be wrong, but I don't think he's off just yet so I will enjoy every moment of his management, the football we get and this side we've put together.
