afca32 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Cracking manager IMO, second only to Simeone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david spivey Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Pep Guardiola will make City the best team in the world he's second only to nobody not Diego Simeone , not Alex Ferguson nobody! I only wish he was coming to Clyde! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilly Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Overrated massively. Never won the Champions League at Bayern and won't with Man City. Has goat a 'philosophy' but. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaviliunas Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Best in the world comfortably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinkinFighter Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Overrated massively. Never won the Champions League at Bayern and won't with Man City. Has goat a 'philosophy' but. They've got a fair chance of winning it this year. Comfortably the second best team in Europe and could beat Barca on a good day imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzle Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 They've got a fair chance of winning it this year. Comfortably the second best team in Europe and could beat Barca on a good day imo. I don't think Barca are any better than this Bayern side now, Barca's front three are absolutely frightening but as an 11 I think Bayern might shade it, hopefully anyway if they meet this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris. Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Juve & Allegri will put him in his place in a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I hope the EPL schedule a Man City game away to Stoke on a Tuesday evening next season, possibly between November and February. Then he can finally prove if he's actually all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonMan Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 He's a top manager. Had some great players at his disposal, but a manager still has to know how to use those players effectively, and Guardiola's results over the years have shown he's capable of doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Absolute shite. A worse manager than Cowboy McCormack, by a long way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Bored hearing about Guardiola already. ...so decides to open thread titled 'Guardiola'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 It might have been something new, interesting and exciting I hadn't yet heard about Pep. It wasn't. He has much in common with your posts it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I hope the EPL schedule a Man City game away to Stoke on a Tuesday evening next season, possibly between November and February. Then he can finally prove if he's actually all that. Would probably be unseasonably warm and calm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P45 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Putting aside all that he has won in his career, will he be able to win at Stoke on a Tuesday night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 As has been established elsewhere, while he inherited great squads at both Barcelona and Bayern Munich there was nothing easy about the job he had to do. His success at Barcelona was outrageous and at both clubs he rebuilt the squad and introduced a new style of play over his time in charge. He is quite evidently a brilliant manager. That said, it's true that Man City is a different kind of challenge to any he's had before. While he has rebuilt a squad successfully at both clubs he's managed, he's been able to do so gradually from season to season and still have a squad capable of competing for the Champions League right away. At Man City he's going to have more work to do in terms of signings than he's had before if he wants them competing with the likes of Barcelona & Bayern. It's going to be interesting to see how quickly he decides to overhaul it with them clearly being comfortably behind the big three despite having the best squad in England. Still, he's got some sort of previous for quickly changing the look of a side, selling three of Barcelona's most important players in his first summer in charge (Ronaldinho, Deco & Zambrotta) while he brought in three new players - (signed Alves & Pique, promoted Busquets) - and made them all first team regulars immediately, and they've all been such a great success that they're still regulars now. Obviously the job required at City is going to be more extensive and there's not going to be a Sergio Busquets coming through their youth system, but he's shown in the past that he can get rid of players who were crucial under a previous manager and improve the team as a result. He left Barcelona with a better squad than he inherited and he's leaving Bayern with a better squad than he inherited, despite his failure in the Champions League there so far. He'll improve City's squad too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Guardiola inherited a Barcelona squad that hadn't won a trophy the previous 2 seasons. Not that I'm saying the squad was shabby, but he made them the best team on the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Nooka Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 As has been established elsewhere, while he inherited great squads at both Barcelona and Bayern Munich there was nothing easy about the job he had to do. His success at Barcelona was outrageous and at both clubs he rebuilt the squad and introduced a new style of play over his time in charge. He is quite evidently a brilliant manager. That said, it's true that Man City is a different kind of challenge to any he's had before. While he has rebuilt a squad successfully at both clubs he's managed, he's been able to do so gradually from season to season and still have a squad capable of competing for the Champions League right away. At Man City he's going to have more work to do in terms of signings than he's had before if he wants them competing with the likes of Barcelona & Bayern. It's going to be interesting to see how quickly he decides to overhaul it with them clearly being comfortably behind the big three despite having the best squad in England. Still, he's got some sort of previous for quickly changing the look of a side, selling three of Barcelona's most important players in his first summer in charge (Ronaldinho, Deco & Zambrotta) while he brought in three new players - (signed Alves & Pique, promoted Busquets) - and made them all first team regulars immediately, and they've all been such a great success that they're still regulars now. Obviously the job required at City is going to be more extensive and there's not going to be a Sergio Busquets coming through their youth system, but he's shown in the past that he can get rid of players who were crucial under a previous manager and improve the team as a result. He left Barcelona with a better squad than he inherited and he's leaving Bayern with a better squad than he inherited, despite his failure in the Champions League there so far. He'll improve City's squad too. He's spent about £450m in 6 years of management, it would be hard not to improve any squad doing that. I think this will be a very big test for Pep, Barca and Bayern are clubs that have limited competition in their respective leagues, it won't be like that at City. Plus he doesn't have the 'big name' club to attract players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergie's no1 fan Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 He's spent about £450m in 6 years of management, it would be hard not to improve any squad doing that. I think this will be a very big test for Pep, Barca and Bayern are clubs that have limited competition in their respective leagues, it won't be like that at City. Plus he doesn't have the 'big name' club to attract players. Yeah just ask the guy at Man U who has wasted £250m in less than 2 years , not that I'm complaining. Any managerial appointment is a risk for any club but it's a no brainer for City to at least give this guy a shot at it. I don't think the media will w@nk over him in the same way they do with Klopp and Jose, it's strictly football with him. Will be interesting to see how he reacts to some of the nonsense he'll be asked about over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Nooka Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Yeah just ask the guy at Man U who has wasted £250m in less than 2 years , not that I'm complaining. Any managerial appointment is a risk for any club but it's a no brainer for City to at least give this guy a shot at it. I don't think the media will w@nk over him in the same way they do with Klopp and Jose, it's strictly football with him. Will be interesting to see how he reacts to some of the nonsense he'll be asked about over here. I did say it would be hard, not impossible. And LVG is a very overrated manager, hasn't done much of note since 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Plus he doesn't have the 'big name' club to attract players. I don't think that's too relevant in today's game. The clubs owner has access to that much money, he doesn't actually know how rich he is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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