The free ride from the English press during his press conferences are pretty nauseating as well. The questions being asked are starting to sound North Korea like.
'Pep' Guardiola sack watch
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The free ride from the English press during his press conferences are pretty nauseating as well. The questions being asked are starting to sound North Korea like.
It's the cult of personality isn't it? If you are seen as playing the game they will give you a free ride.
There are genuine questions to be asked about the 115 charges and I think most journalists in the UK media are afraid to ask because they don't want to lose access.
I've seen dozens of articles praising City in the last number of weeks and barely a handful about the charges they are facing.
This is spot on. And you just know that if they are found guilty of some or all of the 115 charges, his PR machine, aided by the general media, will just paint him as an innocent lamb who knew nothing. He's very clearly a cheat who cares about winning at all costs more than anything else, and has very shifting morals.
But it's ok, cos his teams play pretty football.
This is how you know the man is slimy and insincere, picks his words thinking only of how appropriate it sounds. "Starry eyed Pep watching United as a little boy" of course sounds more PR-worthy than 28-yr old balding Barcelona player
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we cannot replace him
He fecking played against us.
It's even worse when you look at it, Barça was in the same group as United that year in the Champions League.
And at that point he had already won 1 Champions League and featured in another final, he had 6 La Ligas in his bag as well as 1 Cup Winners' Cup, 2 European Supercups and other spanish cups and he was as well an olympic champion with Spain
He was everything but a little boy filled with awe
He was recovering from the injury that basically ended his career, but yes, he was part of the Barça squad that season. And he was the team capitain
He was recovering from the injury that basically ended his career, but yes, he was part of the Barça squad that season. And he was the team capitain
What was the interviewer doing? Busy munching on popcorn ?We definitely can
Well done he was 13
I can imagine Guardiola in 1999 showing up to la masia with a skateboard
"Com ho porteu companys?"
"Com ho porteu companys?"
Made me giggle
He was drooling for Pep's sexy football words.
"I always listen to the little boy inside of me in these situations – when you have to make the harder decisions in life. What does he want? That boy was screaming for Man United.
A 28 year old little boy.
What a weirdo.
What a weirdo.
‘Next question please…’
‘Hi, yes, you were found guilty of doping as a player and then rehired the same doctor as a manager and you currently have 115 charges of financial cheating and breaking FFP hanging over everything you do at City - would you like to comment on this?’
‘Erm no, not you… I meant the person behind you in the UAE hoodie…’
‘Yes, are there any more Haaland replica shirts available?’
‘Yes there are! They’re available in small, medium and large and are in the gift shop on your way out’.
‘Thanks, Pep, good luck in the CL final against Darmian, Dzeko, Mkhitaryan and Lukaku - when - sorry IF you win it’ll be an amazing achievement’.
If you think that playing Inter constitutes an easy Final who would you have us play instead given that we've already comfortably eliminated the other most highly rated participants?
At least he's had the decency to acknowledge that he's only been this successful because he managed cheat code clubs Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Man City where he's had Messi, Lewandowski, Aguero and Haaland.
The hype and brown-nosing of this guy has been ridiculous. When he achieves something with a competitive club rather than a doped-up club, I'll rate him fairly and get a better picture of his true ability.
The hype and brown-nosing of this guy has been ridiculous. When he achieves something with a competitive club rather than a doped-up club, I'll rate him fairly and get a better picture of his true ability.
Do you apply the same standards to top players?
Messi has never played club football outside a super team.
Not sure if it’s insider news or if they’ve already announced it but a friend of mine is working on the Pep statue at City
Doesn't work like that.
How does it work then?
Is there anything to suggest he wouldn't be successful (at least relatively speaking)? Coaching a small teams has to be much easier, because in the end everything in football tactics is about creating space and when no one respects you opponents just give it to you. It's why we see coaches, who seemed to perform miracles at smaller clubs fail when they make the step up with some regularity.
True, but Pep is all about relying on excellent technical ability to create and use space and to control a game.
What would Pep do with a bunch of players who are mediocre or just plain bad in their technical abilities?
Pep Guardiola started his career at Barcelona B in the fourth division in Spain!! Now i know some would say still this is a Barcelona team but by default this is as small team as it gets..and guess what - he ended up the season as a champion! haha
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It does a bit, it's the reason it's hard to compare Maradona and Messi. Messi had everything he needed to win trophies and succeed at club and national level whereas Diego had to do it all the hard way. No way to know whether they would have achieved what they did in their respective careers if they switched eras and team mates.
I assume he'd look somewhat like Tuchel at Mainz or Nagelsmann did at Hoffenheim and then work his way up the ladder. And my point in general is that all the pains and financial effort he goes through to have his team manipulate the opposition in order to carve out some space wouldn't be necessary, because his opponents wouldn't be set up nearly as defensive as they are now. To me this question sounds a lot like "could Messi do it on a rainy Wednesday night in Stoke?".
Why are pundits etc.. acting as if Pep is the one that created the idea of inverted fullbacks? If I remember rightly even Sheffield United were doing it a few seasons back when they got promoted