They have 84 points in 32 and already have 90 goals. They are already in the discussion.
Manchester City under Pep Guardiola | Pep on City v Liverpool ref: "He likes to be special"
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They have 84 points in 32 and already have 90 goals. They are already in the discussion.
Fair assessment. These things happen. I think next season you wont be as fortunate. Still favourites but you wont be runaways. Many teams will notice that you have glaring weaknesses in defence.
Pep's teams are the image of him: intense, driven, controlling and, yes, prone to explode.
A Pep team is almost unassailable when things are going according to plan. His philosophy of football, difficult as it is to execute, is something to be admired when its being implemented well.
When things are not going to plan Pep has a tendency to blow up though and his teams are the same. You have to remember this is the man who had to take a sabbatical after the way Jose got into his head back at Barca. He's like a finely tuned instrument. Pluck the string the wrong way and it just goes. His teams reflect that. Its tough to knock them off their stride but if you can they'll be wobbly for a bit before they find their feet.
The best sides can capitalise on that. I think that's why Pep's sides have this odd tendency to give up goals over short spaces of time. Its like a big machine going down. It needs time to rev up again. In that 10-15 minutes you can do a lot of damage if you have world class players (or Will Grigg!)
I agree. He is the perfect coach for a league season.
But from watching him closely during his three years at Bayern there is another thing very obvious: He overacts and overthinks his tactics when it comes to play knock-out matches vs. bigger teams. Then he tends to leave all patterns that have worked perfectly for a whole season in order to do something really special which he believes fits the opponent and the occasion. At Bayern he sometimes played systems they've never played before or he benched players like Mueller, whom you should never bench on the big stage. Occasionally he even admitted that he botched it himself.
I'm absolutely convinced that if he had played both legs as if they were just ordinary league matches City would have advanced. Even in the second leg I believed they had a real chance, just look at Roma. But when I saw his line-up I knew it would be another Pep-blunder: Had he played a regular line-up and not had gone all-in right from the start, he probably still have had a 1-0 lead by halftime. And with a much more balanced team he for sure still would have scored a second goal in the second half without conceding two. Whether it would have been enough to advance I don't know. But I'm sure they wouldn't have conceded two goals, and they would have had a fair chance until the final whistle. But the way he played them City was done in the very moment they conceded the first goal. Typical Pep.
He and his teams appear to be perfectly tuned, measured and composed during league matches but he goes nuts in CL knock-out rounds. I guess he just wants to win it too hard.
That’s like another £300m if they continue to buy around the £50m price range. There is no chance of that, come on Pep stated they couldn’t afford £35m for Sanchez it makes no sense. I hear you say Laporte but he obviously came on a free a week later....
Not a great team to they win silverware imo. And not just a league title will do it. But agree they are great to watch but great team at this point no chance.
They have won silverware.
As stated more than one title is a minimum requirement imo.
Uhhh... Why is a Bayern fan getting defensive over a jibe at City?
This is true. We've had many PL winning teams that weren't great teams - the 10/11 team comes to mind. Heck, every PL winner since has been nothing but a good team.
Pep fanboys. And he posts saying he is "neutral"
Redcafe is infested with pepititis virus.
Think you've got it backwards. That tweet was defensive.
Pep fanboys. And he posts saying he is "neutral"
Redcafe is infested with pepititis virus.
Bad enough we have Barca fans supporting City, now we have Bayern fans riding Pep's saintly cock as well. Just hope Pep doesn't turn PSG and Juve fans against us in the future as well.
I never called myself neutral, 'outside fan' was the word.Pep fanboys. And he posts saying he is "neutral"
Redcafe is infested with pepititis virus.
No, the tweet was merely mentioning that we've lost fewer home games under Mourinho than City have under Pep - albeit to mock the latter.
Whatever, same shit.
What a great sides he puts together.
But
How grim are they? Constant moaning, trying to get people sent off, snidey fouls, always a drama when they lose, intimdating referees, Guardiola hyesterics.
Stain on the game. It shows you the cowardly character of those that love him when you see them supporting this.
But
How grim are they? Constant moaning, trying to get people sent off, snidey fouls, always a drama when they lose, intimdating referees, Guardiola hyesterics.
Stain on the game. It shows you the cowardly character of those that love him when you see them supporting this.
And whole of Spain and Qatar.
While conveniently leaving out the part that City had that home game to lose in the first place, as opposed to United who went out of the competition, losing at home to Sevilla..
You are either WUM or incredibly thick.
I need to stop posting now, I'm strongly setting us up to lose at home vs Sevilla tonight
What's not to get?
I'm not sure what your point is. City played at home and lost. That's the way I see it. That's now three losses in a row at home for the greatestest team ever.
So are we counting just one season and goals and points in it or success over a time period?
He's a Pep fan, simple.
It's a simple tweet, You struggle with this is amazing.
Yeah, not even ManCity fans get their panties in a bunch over a simple tweet.
I'm probably more of an United hater than a Pep fan though, if we want to be precise.
United hater you say?
What are you doing here then?
Yep. It was kind of like all the things Pogba's been criticised for this season stuffed into a single 90 minutes.
He's a fantastic player but the real world class players grow under pressure. He's had some kind of meltdown over the two legs. It's created a question mark over him for me. Anyone can strut around showcasing what they're good at when you''re winning 4-0 every week.
Silva as the only one of their forward players I thought had their head screwed on at all, and he got taken off for some reason.
I like to see you suffer. Came here for the Moyes era. The moment you become real successful again, I'll try to deny it for a while and then will disappear. But enough about me.
I agree with you and its strange that, despite losing in similar circumstances repeatedly, he continues to approach the biggest games with extra special plans.
I suppose its a bit like telling a scorpion not to sting or a wolf not to bite, its just who he is. This time next year City will be back in the European Cup knock outs and Pep will be back making another master plan, full of the belief that this will be the one that works.
The strangest element of it is that in his most successful period at Barcelona he never really did that. He played a consistent 4-3-3 with more or less the same players. The biggest innovation in the early days was Messi as the false 9. It was only the year after, when he started experimenting with the 3-3-1-3 with Cesc as a #10 that things started to get away from him.
Probably a more interesting hobby than watching the Bundesliga to be fair.
Mourinho Chelsea never made it to the final. Yet they're considered one of the best sides the PL has seen.
It’s incredible what ‘99 has done to some Bayern supporters. They should be used in clinical trials and experiments.The former. Yes. Because City have only 1 season under their belt. It would be ridiculous to compare them to a Chelsea 04-06 or United 06-11.
Or one can wait for 2 years to begin the conversation, but in the meantime single season comparisons are fair.
No no. Let's talk about some more.
You deserve a nice, new tagline.
You cannot say that I haven't been transparent from the start
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/pro...ccess-pm-damien.188079/page-244#post-18186739
Touché.
So United hating Pep fan. Got it.You cannot say that I haven't been transparent from the start
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/pro...ccess-pm-damien.188079/page-244#post-18186739
Touché.