Feel free to name all the players who started that make their best 11...this should be fun!Imagine saying 'reserves'
'Pep' Guardiola sack watch
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Imagine “Man United fans” thinking Man United fans are small time for taking the piss out of their arch rivals manager for losing, on a Man United forum.
Context pal. We're 14 points behind
So you can only banter your rivals if you’re above them in the table? Going by that logic, City are 3 European cups, 14 league titles, 6 FA cups behind us.
Top banter lad
I'm not a United fan tbf to him.
Top deflection from answering the question lad
It's meaningless when they are going to win the league easily anyway.
There's 5/6 guaranteed starters in that line-up today. Ederson, Cancelo, Stones, Jesus, Sterling. It's debatable to class likes of Bernardo Silva, Fernandinho, Zinchenko, Torres, maybe Cancelo and Stones as they all fluctuate in form and are able to claim a place in their best 11. Only ones I definitely wouldn't say make their best 11 are Mendy and Ake. They even brought on Gundogan and Foden today both have their moments and can make their best 11.
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Imagine "Man United fans" being unable to tell the difference between Man United fans and Livepool fans.
And it's a sackwatch thread FFS. Let's at least wait till the lovely moment when they get knocked out of the CL.
Don't worry. We're all now used to you being back to where you belong - challenging for top 4.
Sterling is as far away from a starting spot as he's ever been at City, never mind a guaranteed one. He won't start in Dortmund, unless Pep pulls one of his stunts. If he goes without a striker again, it's unlikely Jesus will either. And there's nothing debatable about Torres, who is very much a clear substitute.
I'd say nailed on right now are Ederson, Dias, Stones, Cancelo, Rodri, KDB, Gundogan, Mahrez and Foden. Plus one of Walker/Zinchenko & Bernardo/Jesus.
Amazing press conference today. "It's not a sport if success is already guaranteed." Well said.
You’ve got to give him credit. Just doesn’t give a feck- tells it like it is. To be fair his reputation allows him to do that.
city dont need money anyway
Fair fecks to Guardiola.
I've gained massive respect for this man.
Yes, he's managed to completely avoid taking about how City spent their way to success.
Nice one baldy
He has a similar stature to Klopp, but he used his voice to make an unequivocal statement against this shite idea. Fair play to him.
It does worry me how most of the resistance to this is just against clubs having a guaranteed place. Even if it fails, it leaves the door open for a re-jig of the rules and they try again. Personally, I just don't want this tournament at all. I like the PL, CL, EL, FA cup and League cup. It's interesting enough as things are, it's nice playing Barca/Real once every few years and also Cheltenham/Scunthorpe once every few years.
It does worry me how most of the resistance to this is just against clubs having a guaranteed place. Even if it fails, it leaves the door open for a re-jig of the rules and they try again. Personally, I just don't want this tournament at all. I like the PL, CL, EL, FA cup and League cup. It's interesting enough as things are, it's nice playing Barca/Real once every few years and also Cheltenham/Scunthorpe once every few years.
*round of applause
Fair play to him.
I agree with what he says.
He is allowed to say it, because his employers aren't in on it. He'd be toeing the line much more if they were.
He is allowed to say it, because his employers aren't in on it. He'd be toeing the line much more if they were.
They're part of it
But I think that's fair - he may be able to spend more money than anyone else, but he still needs his team to win to qualify for the CL. If they lose every game because all their players are so rich they can't be bothered to play anymore, they will be relegated from the Premier League.
In the super league, nothing would happen to the club. That just might be the one step too far even for Guardiola, and I respect that.
Yeh but they’re leaking that ‘they were forced into it’. City will spin that they want out without ever getting out.
No but for their owners it would be about gaining influence.
Pep showing Klopp how it’s done
They're just as bad as the others, course I won't blame Pep and the players but their club is as dusted as ours.
His comments has got me thinking how the top managers and players want --apart from all the money and fame-- a competitive environment to best express their talents. We have seen how dead rubber games usually result in massive fall-off in performances from players and teams. Think of a team who play league games after they have already become champions; their minds are no longer as intensely focused.
All the top professionals in the game are thinking this. Some don't have the courage to express themselves (Zidane). Some, like Guardiola, do. Fair play to him.
All the top professionals in the game are thinking this. Some don't have the courage to express themselves (Zidane). Some, like Guardiola, do. Fair play to him.
Bit glass half empty?
Right now, I'm only interested in anyone/anything speaking against the idea of a super league.. and the more high profile the better.
I'd rather City win three titles on the bounce (and be pushed) than United feck off to a super league that I have ZERO interest in.
Well done sir, well said. (Pep)
Spending billions of oil money for more than a decade to guarantee success is a good sport? Yet using the stature built on success guaranteed by that money to score points on morality.
How easily the "football fans" can be fooled into saying"fair fecks to Pep", "Respect increased massively", just wow.
How easily the "football fans" can be fooled into saying"fair fecks to Pep", "Respect increased massively", just wow.
A bit, I suppose. From my perspective City's ability to spend inherently reduces the effort required to win. It also taints any suggestions of football's current state being based on merit (see pretty well all the big clubs and how they use their spending power and prestige to lord it over everyone else). Then we have the talk about relegation etc, except that, bar City, the big six PL teams haven't been relegated in yonks.
Well done. Let’s hear all the other managers too. Or are they just Muppets.
Part of it but the owners are not behind it.
Look at the list of board members and compare it to the founding clubs.
They still went along with it, don't for one second give any of these cnuts any excuses. These people are not stupid people, they're very smart. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Florentino Pérez has fair points against UEFA. UEFA made the sport increasingly unequal to the point that sheikhs are the only way a non-elite team can ever hope to become an elite team. It's sad, but that's how it is today.
But the Super League as being proposed by him is only gonna make the problems worse, it's a project of greed rather than to solve the issues of huge financial unequality in football.
I think he would say the same thing if he were at a Barca, Bayern, United or Juventus and you name it. He's not a bullsh!tter.