I didn't realise City had already failed to qualify for next season's CL. I think you're getting ahead of yourself there a bit fella. Oh, by the way I pointed out to you the other week that we signed Tevez, Yaya, and Silva without CL football when you were peddling that same line that we won't be able to attract any players of any note if we don't finish in the top 4, and for some strange reason you went all quiet and didn't even bother furnishing me with a response
haha, well I probably thought it was a fair point and didn't want to massage the notion, but having said that, we are a few years on now and the City "project" has proven itself to be no more special or unique than the "PSG project" or the "Spurs project", "Liverpool project" or indeed the "Chelsea Project". Two titles after 9 years of heavy heavy investment isn't particularly special nor is the current run of form, nor the mental state of your manager.
I don't want to be too obvious in my bias, but of course, I am. But I seriously don't see City making top 4, you are narrowly narrowly ahead of us and going into a game against a rampant Spurs, its a very very real possibility that the stick you've been beating us over the head with "were still above you" is about to evaporate from under Peps feet.
If you are a player looking in from the outside you can see several things-
1. Pep is struggling and there is no doubt what-so-ever that its the case, a loss to Everton away is bad enough but the state of the loss is what should be considerably worrying, whereas we had our own chastening defeat against Chelsea, there was a feeling amongst the fans it was a one off. With Pep he seems to be on a landslide down, The Spurs loss earlier in the season, The embarrassing Liecester result, the loss to Liverpool, The loss to Chelsea, these are completely unacceptable results for someone with such a high pedigree.
Hes lost it, and if I was a player looking in I would be thinking about several other projects that can pay me just as much and seem to be on the right track- and yes that does include United.
2. He hasn't improved a single player at Man City and has arguably destroyed the confidence of Stones, Otamendi, Kompany and Aguero all whom are under-performing and almost clueless on the pitch.
3. His refusal to adapt, his needing of constant reminders of the refereeing policies and physicality of the premier league is baffling, fro someone so detail orientated and seemingly the next massiah in the PL he hasnt done his research and if he has, he thinks he can change the way football is here which in itself is arrogant and laughable and looks to be his biggest downfall this season.
4. No one is sitting still waiting for him to get his act together, he will be left by the wayside unless he pulls his finger out and accepts he will have to win ugly and the best best teams that have ever been champions (including City) have always managed to win or pick up points the ugly way, he seemingly wont accept that and ultimately will be his downfall.
Nothing I have said is controversial, nothing is completely wrong and Im sorry its just like LVGs United, boring passive football with little to no end product the difference is LVG managed some results against the top boys.
There's no two ways of looking at it City are in freefall whilst we are fighting our way up. City fans should be furious and demanding answers rather than blindly following this beautiful idea that with another quarter of a billion spent youll magically start playing like Barcelona AND maybe, just maybe, that style of play simply will never work in the Premier League without the cream of the crop playing for you. Which weather you like it or not you cant simply throw cash at without CL as its not just you who can do it.
Sorry about the essay.