carl_feedthegoat wrote:CBBT wrote:Why are people on here getting very PEP disrespectful?? I have been going to CITY since 1964 and I will never understand two things in life 1. Is woman 2. Is City fans , yes we have been through more bad than good in my lifetime. But the slow climb back to the top has taken some time considerable effort oh yes and money, Francis Lee started it although he pit club right but forgot about what went on on the pitch, he should never of sacked Brian Horton, and even then we had some downs !! 1999 was the what you would call the modern start to the City we now know. Even Shinawatra played his part and now we have a guy that is a winner!! He has one failing , he is always looking to better things and therefore tinkers, very much like the sport he plays (golf). Players get to the top then start to tinker to get better sadly it works very often the other way, that is somewhat Pep's Achilles heel he needs a strong No 2 to stand up and tell him when he is wrong! Kolo Toure or even Yaya if he retired could do this. Vincent would have been great but he has gone straight into the top job.
"Guardiola, to put it another way, has outlasted the previous 19 City managers. Or 23, if caretaker managers are included. And if he stays until the end of March, he will overtake Book, too. Nobody will have managed the club longer since Joe Mercer, from 1965 to 1971. And, hold on a moment, wasn’t it said of Guardiola that he rarely stuck around?"
For Gods sake lets not start going backwards here fellas, we still have one hell of a team that can get a hell of a lot better!!! CTID
You don't think the 20 odd million pounds a year PeP gets or the fact that the Spanish duo bend over for him, like a pair of slappers ,has anything to do with him sticking around longer than he has done at his ONLY 2 other real clubs hes managed before us ?
I don't like him and never have - from the time he tried telling City fans not to boo the CL anthem and who can forget that time he turned round and gave the fans a dirty look because we dared to cheer for his mate Bravo when he made ONE save..it was a City fans being City fans...something this Manager will never ever understand - to top it off this man never ever fails to plug in his love for Barcelona whenever he can ......even when no question of them has been asked , he still finds an angle to bring them up.
On the footballing front - he has NOT addressed the CB part of our defense and he has NOT addressed the left hand side and he has NOT addressed the desperately needed forward we require - hes paid 20 million pounds and change...............just remember that point.
We play tomorrow with the above personnel failings.
The whole Pep thing is really a long, long debate.
What I don't like about him are two things:
1) The distance and the non stop feel that he is goingI fell, same as the Bayern fans pointed out. He doesn't know/wants to make the fans love him, something that german cunt Klopp knows how to do. After the CAS verdict was the first time since he came here when I've heard him saying things as they were. That was a thing I loved about Mancini, even if he is far inferior that Pep. He knew how to step up and defend the club.
It doesn't help at all when he points out with every chance he has that Barcelona is the club he loves. I get that, but you are here for 4 years now and he still doesn't understand what it is to be a City fan.
Also, the media will non stop come out and say he is going, etc. We are a club hated by the media and he needs to speak to the fans. Last summer when Sarri was appointed at Juventus, do you remember the rumours? He didn't came once and say it was bollox until they Sarri was named.
2) His arrogance on accepting the flaws he/we have99% of the games we lose are for major fuckups and brainfarts that we can see for a mile away. I genuinely can't remember the last game we lost when a team was better than us and not because we he fucked up with the lineup or tactics.
I respect him a lot for what he did here and even if, of course, he annoys the fuck out of me, I want him to stay for another decade, but I, as a fan, can't do this constant mistery of a relation he has with us.
As for us, we need to understand that typical City is gone, even if we still have it in our blood. We are the best club in the country in the past decade, us, who lost at York. We are a totally different level and maybe our kids/grandkids will enjoy even greater succes in the next 30-40 years.
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:10 pm
