Pep Guardiola at again

No one becomes the best without making mistakes and learning from them.

Has Pep learnt anything? He had 3 seasons at Bayern after taking over when they were Champions League champions and failed in all 3 attempts to win the trophy again. They won it since he left.

He’s now at City and has had 5 Champions League failures and counting during a spell where English clubs are having a period of dominance in Europe overtaking Spain in last 3 seasons. 5 Champions League & 4 Europa League finalists (2 winners in each) in 5 seasons Pep has been in England.

He’s under pressure and it’s showing.

He’s right that young players need proper game time but he’s wrong (in my opinion) of how it should happen. The loan system is there to be used by teams to get their players competitive game time and should be utilised as such. What is wrong is having a squad of 50+ when only 24 (?) can be named to play in the premier league that season. Football at the top level is broken and you only have to look at the wage of 1st and 2nd year professionals that aren’t even near the main squad to see that.

Think he struggles a bit when the pressure is on and wouldn’t be surprised if he’s walked by Xmas

On this occasion Guardiola has got it wrong if he's insinuating a future B team incentive like they have in Spain.

End of the day he has players out on loan in the EFL so why not send more guys out? if the kids who played the other night including McAtee's brother are not in his immediate first team plans than loaning them out would be the sensible option.

According to Wiki, they've got the following out on loan in the EFL...

Gavin Bazunu (Pompey), Ben Knight (Crewe), Claudio Gomes (Barnsley) Yeboah Amankwah (Accrington), Matt Smith (Hull), Lewis Fiorini (Lincoln), Morgan Rogers (Bournemouth), Callum Doyle (Sunderland)

In fairness to Pep and City they do get absolutely slaughtered in the media and on social media, there seems to be such a negative bluster around them all the time. The empty seats jibe being one, whilst most ignore Spurs having 30,000 less than capacity against Pacos the other week, United have had similarly low attendances in recent time against less fancied opposition in the early rounds.

I remember the brief blip they had when the dropped out of the Premier League in 1996,  where they spent 3 years in the old Division 1, and even a year down in Division 2 winning the play-off final against Gillingham the following year after us. I remember them coming to Blundell Park and they made the place rock, they packed the Osmond every time and sang all the way through, 30k + at home in old Div 2 for that 98/99 season says it all. Such a decent fan base and honestly very modest even now. Always were very complimentary about Town and the difficulties of coming here. Still remember Alan Pouton levelling late on after we had threatened all game, good memories.

People seem to forget that they've always been a big club, as well as a founding member of the Premier League but hammer home about these empty seats and waffle on like the year they spent in the third tier was where they originally came from. I've always thought well of them, and it's just the United/Liverpool/Arsenal apple cart that was upset when they were bank rolled.

They are in an extremely privileged position these days and are a million miles away from games with us, but as a Premier League team I always find them the less of the evils, so ironic people call them Plastic and yet we even in Lincolnshire everyone seems to support United and Liverpool still  

I think what he wants is his best young players to play together in a more competitive way than they are now, so they learn to play together the way he wants them to, rather than them going individually to teams scattered far and wide, playing different systems.

Problem is that there is nowhere for them to play in that way and that's how it should be. Shoehorning them into more competitive leagues is of no benefit to anyone, other than them, so bollox to you Pep and all the other bleating managers of vast unwieldy squads.

You and other far too wealthy clubs created this one sided problem, so live with it.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Has Pep learnt anything? He had 3 seasons at Bayern after taking over when they were Champions League champions and failed in all 3 attempts to win the trophy again. They won it since he left.

He’s now at City and has had 5 Champions League failures and counting during a spell where English clubs are having a period of dominance in Europe overtaking Spain in last 3 seasons. 5 Champions League & 4 Europa League finalists (2 winners in each) in 5 seasons Pep has been in England.

He’s under pressure and it’s showing.

This has always been my take on Pep. Of course he’s seen as an innovator and perhaps to some extent he is but literally any fornicator would’ve won everything with that Barcelona side. They’re some of the greatest players to grace the game with an innate desire and will to win.

Pep doesn’t always learn and his own arrogance can be his down fall. How he never won the European cup with Bayern only he knows, similar with City. He was too arrogant and his ego probably cost him last years European cup too. Tuschel was there six months and out thought him and did a job on him making city look average in that final.

Pep will believe in a B team model because that’s essentially where he came from but it just isn’t something needed here or something that would add anything…just because top flight clubs harvest players and create enormous squads.

Gone by xmas his body language says we've no chance of winning champs lge without kane , only spent 1/2 billion so far on players , try hacking it at clubs with no bottomless pit , so overrated it's not true

Gone by xmas his body language says we've no chance of winning champs lge without kane , only spent 1/2 billion so far on players , try hacking it at clubs with no bottomless pit , so overrated it's not true

Fuckoff back to Barca Pep. We don’t want you here