Gabri Veiga - Celta Vigo CM

He's been here for 1 season so not sure how he's meant to have proved that. That aside, you're wrong - Luke Shaw was outstanding at CB this season. Bruno played well multiple times on the right.
Erik ten Hag has shown that he can coach players to adapt to change and develop them whilst being under financial constraints at Ajax. Players like Frenkie de Jong became first team regulars under him at the age of 20. Overmars brought in a DM like Alvarez who wasn't great technically but EtH improved him and made it work. And the way he switched strategy after losing De Jong and Schone and making up the short fall by progressing play via the fullbacks, CBs and GK. And Luke Shaw in the season just gone is another example of his ability to coach at the highest level.

Guardiola's blueprint is a Dutch concept that was brought to him by Cruyff via Michels.

Take a look at the situation with ETH and Antony. Antony was literally the player in ETH's team at Ajax but struggled at Utd in the first season.
I like Eth and what he has done , but he cant be compared (yet) with Pep in that regard. In Pep's team, people generally blend into the team.
 
Take a look at the situation with ETH and Antony. Antony was literally the player in ETH's team at Ajax but struggled at Utd in the first season.
I like Eth and what he has done , but he cant be compared (yet) with Pep in that regard. In Pep's team, people generally blend into the team.
And if they don't, just keep spending 50m+ until they do.
 
Take a look at the situation with ETH and Antony. Antony was literally the player in ETH's team at Ajax but struggled at Utd in the first season.
I like Eth and what he has done , but he cant be compared (yet) with Pep in that regard. In Pep's team, people generally blend into the team.
Pep Guardiola has inherited world class teams at Barcelona, Bayern and even took over a City team that had won two league titles before he arrived. Guardiola quite simply has never been in a position where he was taking over a club after they'd finished outside the champions league places. And hence he's never been in a position where he's had players that weren't suited to his play style and even the ones that weren't were removed.

And I'm not making a like for like comparison either, just pointing out that ten Hag had to develop and construct teams under financial constraints to get a job at a elite level club but Guardiola was fortunate that Barcelona gave him a job straight from coaching their youth/reserves.

He's a great coach but the best analogy I can make is of a racing car driver who is world class but also has the best car in the race. And that's the advantage he had at Barcelona after inheriting some of the greatest players of all time and also inheriting a great team at Bayern and currently he's inherited Sheikh Mansour who has provided him the best car in the race.

Guardiola is no doubt a great coach, but his greatness will be tested when a rival coach with a proactive attacking mindset is backed to develop a playstyle to exert zonal and positional control all over the pitch and id also backed by a owner who can match Sheikh Mansour. Then it will become a two horse race at all levels of the club.
 
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If city want him they must be something about him. Saying that Pep will turn him into something special if he joins them.
 
ffs....why not pay this kids release clause and stop messing about with targets that will cost double and be a pain in the arse to get?
We don’t go for people like this who could turn out to be Gems. We always go for the overpriced players that are well known and you’ve heard of. Our scouts probably haven’t looked further than the premier league for players. It’s just laziness.
 
We don’t go for people like this who could turn out to be Gems. We always go for the overpriced players that are well known and you’ve heard of. Our scouts probably haven’t looked further than the premier league for players. It’s just laziness.

Well yeah, apart from Dalot, Malacia, Pellistri, Amad, Garnacho, Lindelof, Fred, Martial, De Gea... near enough half our current first team squad who were originally signed as prospects/relative unknowns from outside the PL.
 
Take a look at the situation with ETH and Antony. Antony was literally the player in ETH's team at Ajax but struggled at Utd in the first season.
I like Eth and what he has done , but he cant be compared (yet) with Pep in that regard. In Pep's team, people generally blend into the team.

Or ever tbf. Guardiola's one of the top 3 coaches of all time - that's a level beyond every active coach out there at the moment.
 
Just signed for a team in Saudi. What a waste of a career at only 21. Low mentality and low ambitions. Should have stayed at Celta for another year and then got his move to a big European club next season.
 
Just signed for a team in Saudi. What a waste of a career at only 21. Low mentality and low ambitions. Should have stayed at Celta for another year and then got his move to a big European club next season.

He had a deal in place with Napoli since January or so I read and Celta was already counting the money. He changed agents this spring and thus I think Napoli tried to match new demands.
He already had the move to a bigger club lined up.
 
How has he done so far in Saudi? I would have thought it was a matter of time until he's returning to Europe if he was as highly rated as claimed before his move.
No idea but he’s a phenomenal talent. Not sure how he’d work in our team with Bruno though, a Mainoo/Veiga pairing plus Bruno I don’t think would work. Would need a DM plus Mainoo/Veiga and Bruno false 9