Pep Guardiola

It's a shame if he's on the way down, as his way of thinking and playing about football - as a disciple of Total Football - has been so good to watch and learn from since 2008. He and Barca clearly created a demarcation point between football pre them (since about the 80s) and after them. They've influenced so much.

Hopefully he can bounce back, but if not, he's secured his legacy anyway. But if possession football is on the way out for a while (it goes in cycles) he has a huge problem as he isn't built to play any other way.

It's a bit ironic too if his protege Arteta plays a huge part in his downfall.

Sounds incredibly rattled

@JamDav1982 W inside info?

Pep Guardiola on the changes made to #ManCity's starting line-up vs Real Madrid: "Listen, how many times did Nico O'Reilly play left-back this season? How many?

"The only adjustment was [Abdukodir] Khusanov because Vinicius moves in that area, and we wanted a guy who doesn't think much to attack. The rest? (Wingers?) Yeah, injured two months, yeah. And they played incredible; Savinho in Newcastle, Jeremy [Doku] always is an incredible threat. And people with experience, Bernardo [Silva] and Rodri, runners with Nico [O'Reilly] and Antoine [Semenyo], the sense of goal that all of them have, set-pieces - that was the idea.

"Rotation? I've done it in Newcastle, nine players different. I understand what I'm saying; the target is wingers to try to drop them, people in the middle in pockets to arrive close to the box, control second structures with experienced players, fast players behind - that was the idea..." #UCL

That line up behind haaland was terrible
Silva can't do much defensive covering
You fucked up sir.
Also play damn FBs, O'Reilly would have been better served beside rodri.

But regardless of the XI. losing to this Madrid is embarrassing

jamrock said:

That like up behind lewa was terrible

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What?

Yeah the o reilly left back experiment needs to stop. I don't know who else they have, though.

Full squad but decided to play nonsense squad??

His head isn't in football anymore (at least with City). Maybe waiting for Barca's Font.

vegitot said:

Full squad but decided to play nonsense squad??

His head isn't in football anymore (at least with City). Maybe waiting for Barca's Font.

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His wife leaving him broke him lol

He's a great manager but he's burnt out and been at City too long. Also his rebuild has faltered because he has made some strange decisions in the transfer market. Some of the players are just a bad fit.

Maradona37 said:

It's a shame if he's on the way down, as his way of thinking and playing about football - as a disciple of Total Football - has been so good to watch and learn from since 2008. He and Barca clearly created a demarcation point between football pre them (since about the 80s) and after them. They've influenced so much.

Hopefully he can bounce back, but if not, he's secured his legacy anyway. But if possession football is on the way out for a while (it goes in cycles) he has a huge problem as he isn't built to play any other way.

It's a bit ironic too if his protege Arteta plays a huge part in his downfall.

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He probably just needs another sabbatical and has burned out.

Get out of England, have a year off and go to Italy, or go play fantasy football over in Paris once LE leaves- or if the Paris FC billionaires can promise him 200m per year to buy fullbacks.