New Pep rumours

[Slim]

Normally I am all for following the bookies, but that's for players and I am not sure the same applies to managers.

[Ted Hughes]

Normally I am all for following the bookies, but that's for players and I am not sure the same applies to managers.

The strange thing for me was that (apparently) the bookies were on this very early & also round about the same time (also apparently) Mourinho suddenly started dissing Guradiola, saying Messi was the important thing at Barca, not him.

It does appear there has been a significant disturbance in the Force, even if it is all based on bollocks.

[Moonchesteri]

A guy called Tancredi Palmeri is tweeting City are in advanced talks with Guardiola ? Palmeri apparently works for BeIN Sports .

He's Italy's version of Balague. Utterly full of shit, he's a journalist not an employee of BeIN sports

Thanks . Balague now tweeting the story is completely untrue whilst the Palmeri bloke is tweeting City approached Guardiola twice in the last few months , the second time 2 weeks ago . Might be bollocks or there might be something in it as now a few journo,s tweeting stuff .

Palmeri & Bollockegue are, I believe, both complete twats. Probably best to ignore both even in a rumour mongering thread.

Palmeri especially is a right cunt.
He makes literally Thousands of tweets/rumours about 'talks' between different clubs & players here and there and when finally one of them happens he bangs on about it "as I tweeted before, this player signs for that club"

It's the same if I made a list of thousand players playing in Europe and said City are signing this bloke. One of them would happen and TA DAA! I told you so

[CTID Hants]

A guy called Tancredi Palmeri is tweeting City are in advanced talks with Guardiola ? Palmeri apparently works for BeIN Sports .

He's Italy's version of Balague. Utterly full of shit, he's a journalist not an employee of BeIN sports

Thanks . Balague now tweeting the story is completely untrue whilst the Palmeri bloke is tweeting City approached Guardiola twice in the last few months , the second time 2 weeks ago . Might be bollocks or there might be something in it as now a few journo,s tweeting stuff .

Palmeri & Bollockegue are, I believe, both complete twats. Probably best to ignore both even in a rumour mongering thread.

Palmeri especially is a right cunt.
He makes literally Thousands of tweets/rumours about 'talks' between different clubs & players here and there and when finally one of them happens he bangs on about it "as I tweeted before, this player signs for that club"

It's the same if I made a list of thousand players playing in Europe and said City are signing this bloke. One of them would happen and TA DAA! I told you so

So that's where Tolmei or whatever the bloke from BM is called gets his info from LOL

[ross.mcfc]

Keys has contacts at Bayern. From his last stint on the radio he always had high level guests from them on the show. He says it is true.

Balague is a personal friend of Pep. He says it is untrue.

Sounds to me that Bayern have leaked this story and want rid of Pep.

[Tokyo Blue]

My mate said something was afoot when that wanker rumenigge said something about him not wanting to "join a club like City". I thought he just meant PG wouldn't leave the Hitler Youth other than in a box but maybe I was wrong.

[Im_Spartacus]

There's actually nothing strange about the timing of the announcement.If some random bloke who has a poor record tweets something, of course Richard Keyes & Co are not just going to broadcast it as fact. Someone will start asking around. If they then find a source they trust, telling them they can run with it, then they broadcast it. All that shows is that Keyes is at least trying to behave like a proper journalist.

As for comments about it being 'strange' Didi Hamman & Lothar Matteus 'waited' before backing the stories; they were on a tv show, so contacted their sources ( presumably Bayern Munich) & confirmed on that show, that they have been told talks are taking place.

Imo this points to someone at Bayern leaking the story in the first place. Whether it's true or malicious or designed to sway the Bayern board into a decision, who knows, but I recon it's come from their end.

Keyes' line when opening the show today is 'Of course City have denied it, but we think there is probably something in it' - hardly nailing their colours to the mast.

BeIN are being really cagey about it, which is the oddest thing if they have broke what they feel is a genuine story.

I think your last line might be key, an internal source may not necessarily be disseminating information with genuine intent and may be jumping on a bandwagon started by this 'Munich & Germany' guy for their own political reasons

[Im_Spartacus]

Keys has contacts at Bayern. From his last stint on the radio he always had high level guests from them on the show. He says it is true.

Balague is a personal friend of Pep. He says it is untrue.

Sounds to me that Bayern have leaked this story and want rid of Pep.

He doesn't say its true, he is treating it as a rumour that he thinks might have foundation - I'm sat now watching him on the TV talking about it in the match build up and he's stopping well short of saying it's true, just as he did yesterday.

[nottsblue]

So the merest rumour that he might join City has got them all shitting it. Brilliant.

The dissing of Pep has already begun and he's not even landed at Ringway yet. The likes of Mourinho and van Gaal must be hoping this is a bad dream.

[Mase]

Keys said yesterday he believes what he's been told to be true.

[DoomMerchant]

Keys said yesterday he believes what he's been told to be true.

Spartycunts is watching him speak about it live.

Yesterday is gone.

Cheers

[Moonchesteri]

Who is this Keys bloke anyway and why should we believe what he says?

[Im_Spartacus]

Keys said yesterday he believes what he's been told to be true.

Spartycunts is watching him speak about it live.

Yesterday is gone.

Cheers

In all honesty, he seems very non-committal about it on screen. At first he talked up the source as having reason to believe the information was true, but even so they are certainly not talking about it as fact, just speculation and the story has changed a few times since yesterday when it was first mentioned from a 'agreement' to now simply being 'advanced talks' (so if they had reason to believe an agreement was in place, why backtrack if their source was so good?).

In all honesty, given the season City and Bayern have both had, and the off-field issues for Guardiola, I think we can all safely assume that talks are or have taken place, so I'm not sure it's even a surprise other than perhaps to City fans who are getting deja-vu over potential shit treatment of another manager.

The big conversation amongst the pundits (Gray, Keegan, Zola) is more about the implications if its true.

Moonchesteri - Richard Keyes is the hairy ex-Sky Sports anchorman who was thrown out of Sky along with Andy Gray for their sexist behaviour a couple of years ago. They are now doing the same job at BeIN Sports.

[DoomMerchant]

Keys said yesterday he believes what he's been told to be true.

Spartycunts is watching him speak about it live.

Yesterday is gone.

Cheers

In all honesty, he seems very non-committal about it on screen. At first he talked up the source as having reason to believe the information was true, but even so they are certainly not talking about it as fact, just speculation and the story has changed a few times since yesterday when it was first mentioned from a 'agreement' to now simply being 'advanced talks' (so if they had reason to believe an agreement was in place, why backtrack if their source was so good?).

In all honesty, given the season City and Bayern have both had, and the off-field issues for Guardiola, I think we can all safely assume that talks are or have taken place, so I'm not sure it's even a surprise other than perhaps to City fans who are getting deja-vu over potential shit treatment of another manager.

The big conversation amongst the pundits (Gray, Keegan, Zola) is more about the implications if its true.

Moonchesteri - Richard Keyes is the hairy ex-Sky Sports anchorman who was thrown out of Sky along with Andy Gray for their sexist behaviour a couple of years ago. They are now doing the same job at BeIN Sports.

And they are making a decent fist if it at BeIn if you ask me.

Cheers

[Mikhail Chigorin]

So the merest rumour that he might join City has got them all shitting it. Brilliant.

The dissing of Pep has already begun and he's not even landed at Ringway yet. The likes of Mourinho and van Gaal must be hoping this is a bad dream.

It almost sounds as though they're trying to echo Ambrose Bierce and deeming it "a favourable occasion for grasping a disappointment".

[DoomMerchant]

Pep...OUT!!!

Forza the Count.

Cheers

[Dameerto]

Pep...OUT!!!

Forza the Count.

Cheers

If he'd just play some youngsters every now and then... (I'm running out of grumbles lately though).

[blues2win]

I don't think today's result will have any bearing on Pellegrini's future. If Pep is available we're on otherwise Pellegrini will stay for another year.

[ross.mcfc]

Regardless of what I think of them as individuals, they are both very good at their job. Keys since leaving Sky has shown more journalistic integrity in one year at Bein than he did in his entire time at Sky where he was merely a presenter. His blog is normally worth a read and not the usual tosh that is written by journalists. His take on the Stirling situation was quite refreshing.

Anyways, if he says there is something in it, I believe him. He might just be getting played by his Bayern contacts but unlike all these copy and paste monkeys on twitter and social media, he has the contacts to be played.

[Nigels Tackle]

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