***Brighton v City Official Match Thread***

[Outcast]

Like I said Pep said he won't change and will stick with his boring football8n his last presser. Tells you all you need to know about this stubborn dinosaur. He needs to go if we are to save our season, I can't see how we are going to get any better playing same shit game after game.

[sniffer]

I wish Pep would read all these comments. Slow, predictable, boring. Most teams play with pace, cross with pace and shoot on sight. City, slow, predictable and boring.

[sheblue]

The amount of times we played the ball long and the sheer lack of effort to win the second ball, we probably won less than 10% of them, gifting possession back to Brighton again and again.
Really poor.

[sniffer]

Pep has been a great manager and changed English football. He would go down in history as an even better manager if he could adapt and prove he can change the system and find success again.

[Dub City]

does anyone seriously believe brighton or spurs have better players than we do? this is on pep.

Very good point. How many of the Brighton players would get into a combined 11. It’s terrible to watch and results are shite. Soon as something goes against us we fall apart. It’s been so poor since October last year so we can’t be calling the reactions knee jerk.

[Blue In Bolton]

Pep has been a great manager and changed English football. He would go down in history as an even better manager if he could adapt and prove he can change the system and find success again.

An excellent comment. It is just the same old, same old. A question: If somebody came in for Haaland at £150 million for example, would you take it?
I know would.

[Harry Dowd scored]

It's back to the drawing board for Man City. There are a lot of questions still about this team and Pep Guardiola. Is he going to turn it around? he has never been in a situation quite like this before and the hole keeps getting deeper and deeper.


Off the beeb

[zabbadabbado]

It is not like we have been beat by great teams.

Spurs just lost at home to Bournemouth.

Brighton done by Everton.

As carl rightly pointed out the writing was on the wall last season. I will go further the season before that there were signs "Pep ball" was done. Teams realised they only needed to high press or wait for an unenforced City error to fully exploit.

Main problem is we have is a Dinosaur of a manager who refuses to change his style with one Eye on Golfing out his retirement on the Costa.

The Club let him become too big for the Club. Now we have fitness/set piece coaches unfit for purpose at a Club like ours..

The side resemble a bunch of poorly coached unfit players. Slow dull Robotic football. Just watching them you can see every player thinking " i must recycle pass "just for the sake of passing. It is soul destroying watching 20, 30,40, passes just to lob an aimless Ball in the Box.

I though Pep would be gone by Christmas.

Given our next 3 fixtures are rags,Arse.Napoli we could be losing 4,5, out of our first 6 games.

We are witnessing the end result of allowing sentiment to get in the way of what should have been done.

Was insane letting Pep head the rebuild.

we need a fundamental change in playing style.

[Harry Dowd scored]

We definitely need to manage our expectations. There is zero chance of title challenge. Even if we get to a cup final we all know Pep will fuck up again by overthinking the tactics & team selection. Pep should either change or be changed.

[PeterParker]

I wish Pep would read all these comments. Slow, predictable, boring. Most teams play with pace, cross with pace and shoot on sight. City, slow, predictable and boring.

I am sure Linders and Kolo told him, I am sure the players told him (Bern, Gundog, Kevin).
The problem is he doesn't listen, is his way, nothing else. Admiting otherwise means admiting his sytem has flaws.

And, like or not, his messy personal life affected us also.

I would end it before it becomes sad. He should have gone last season and kept some dignity.
Going on the season like this, he will be sad to see, his legacy will be affected no doubt.

I will get that fella from Bournemouth tomorrow.

[zabbadabbado]

The amount of times we played the ball long and the sheer lack of effort to win the second ball, we probably won less than 10% of them, gifting possession back to Brighton again and again.
Really poor.

same against Spurs, zero intensity we recorded " O second Balls won "in that game

That is supposed to be a fundamental pre-requisite of our playing style. Winning second Balls.

What is the reason for the drop off in intensity/press ?

Personally i think they all look poorly coached and unfit. Like 11 lads who have meet up to play on a Sunday morning after a night on the lash.

We have watched a serious managed decline since our last Title win.

We need a Managerial change

[zabbadabbado]

I wish Pep would read all these comments. Slow, predictable, boring. Most teams play with pace, cross with pace and shoot on sight. City, slow, predictable and boring.

I am sure Linders and Kolo told him, I am sure the players told him (Bern, Gundog, Kevin).
The problem is he doesn't listen, is his way, nothing else. Admiting otherwise means admiting his sytem has flaws.

And, like or not, his messy personal life affected us also.

I would end it before it becomes sad. He should have gone last season and kept some dignity.
Going on the season like this, he will be sad to see, his legacy will be affected no doubt.

I will get that fella from Bournemouth tomorrow.

I think Pep would be happy to have someone pull the Trigger to save him at this point.

He is not going to walk away from a reported £40,000 000 over the next 2 seasons.

He would rather sit there and scratch his Bald head off, so would i to be fair

We have all heard the rumours often wonder who it was at the Club wo reportedly "ALLEGEDLY" caught Pep shagging the female Physio. Mixing up work with private life is never conductive to any good feeling via employees/Club etc.

[Hazy2]

I’m not Hapoy but I’m not going to panic. It’s city. We are all in it. So let’s see if we have a pair and can sort it.

[sheblue]

Hearing Cherki out for two months.

[stevefromdonny]

WHAT PISSES ME OFF IS WE GO INFRONT AND THEN JUST PLAY PASS PASS PASS, not going for a 2nd goal and then we let them get into the game and thats it, even 1-1 we really dint want to go for another goal and then bingo they break and score, even with about 10 mins to go after they scored we didnt have the gall to go forward to try to score, this isnt just pep, its the players also having no balls

[zabbadabbado]

Atmosphere at the Derby is going to be positively toxic.

I wasn't joking earlier when i said we would likely make Amorim 4-3-3 Rag side look like peak Barcelona in 2 weeks.

We pulled down our pants for his Sporting Lisbon side to Bum us and conceded 4,and could have conceded more.

Pep will over think the derby, as he does with every game against the rags.

Change nothing about the style of play.

Just do this usual inexplicable player selections "Square Pegs in round holes" in key positions to make sure we play even more disjointed than normal for the Rags to exploit.

Fully expect to lose and the ground to become as toxic as fuck.

GOD HELP US AGAINST ARSENAL.

[PeterParker]

We are in a massive crisis, no matter how much we want to minimize it, inexplicably, I might say.

I would be 100% behind him if he saw what even Ray Charles can see and started working on that. It's not something capital; a few simple things are all we need to be up and running. However, his "I know better, I am the best, my way is the only way" is killing every single desire I have to watch us play.

And the board playing along with this is inexplicable. The right back situation is something that no professional club should have at this level.

It's not the leadership, it's not the players, I swear it's not Nunes' fault that he is played there. What is happening since the treble is something that is making us look like proper amateurs, and not like a team that dominated this league in every single possible way.

[sheblue]

Rags, Napoli and Arsenal things could get really messy.

[Sparklehorse]

Pep has been a great manager and changed English football. He would go down in history as an even better manager if he could adapt and prove he can change the system and find success again.

I don’t think he’s changed English football at all, he set new standards and the pack have caught up and he clearly has nothing in the locker to take the lead again. I think he’s now a negative influence, Jack has gone and is thriving, Palmer has gone and is thriving. It’s time for a new manager, I said at the beginning of the season that he’ll be gone by Christmas, I think it’ll be sooner. These very good players are playing inhibited football….that generally doesn’t win matches and certainly doesn’t win trophies.

[Harry Dowd scored]

Rags, Napoli and Arsenal things could get really messy.

Can anyone actually see a win in those games, not withstanding the fact we will have half a team missing after international break, Stones thinking which injury he can think up. Fucking sick note cunt