Manchester City under Pep Guardiola | Pep on City v Liverpool ref: "He likes to be special"

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Pep is a really weird character isn't he?

Seems to walk away from everything. Left Barcelona as a player. Left them as a manager in their prime. Was a weirdo at Bayern and has been itching to leave City since he joined.
 

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Pep is a really weird character isn't he?

Seems to walk away from everything. Left Barcelona as a player. Left them as a manager in their prime. Was a weirdo at Bayern and has been itching to leave City since he joined.
He will be in Serie A and at Juve soon enough, reestablishing his genious just how he likes it, minimal competition and a vastly superior squad to everyone else.

This level playing field stuff is beneath him.
 

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He's gone from jobs where his most pressing decision was choosing the garnish on the plate to one where he has to pitch in to help build the dining table each week. Doesn't look pleased.
 

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They are making his struggles out to be worse than they are though. hes on course for 80 points in probably the strongest rop 6 all having relatively good seasons. just like they did to Jose earlier. if we win a few in a row all will be forgotten.
Agreed, as I posted earlier it's not a bad season and averaging over 2 PPG in the first half of the season is fine.

The media are cnuts though, and alienating them won't help his cause.
 

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Came across as a prick in his interviews. Does seem to be quite discontent at the moment.

Although for all the talk of them struggling, they've still got back to reasonably decent league form and are struggling to get near top because of a Chelsea side doing absurdly well; in most years their current points total would have them somewhere around 5 points or so behind 1st at most, if not closer.
 

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Why shouldn't they? Given the right circumstances he is a great manager, and also proven in the CL.
Juve would probably be the under dogs vs the likes of Barca, Madrid, Bayern. I don't think Pep would be suited to that
 

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I think it's easy to forget he's actually a young manager and this is the first time a team hes managing, is struggling.
 

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Juve would probably be the under dogs vs the likes of Barca, Madrid, Bayern. I don't think Pep would be suited to that
Yeah but that is currently true for any club in the world except exactly one of those three mentioned, and he has already done two of them and the third is excluded due to his history with Barca.

Juve would give him the opportunity to manage in a good league, but without real competition so he mainly could focus on the CL, plus a historically great team.

PSG wouldn't be the same.
 

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He's gone from jobs where his most pressing decision was choosing the garnish on the plate to one where he has to pitch in to help build the dining table each week. Doesn't look pleased.
He didn't realise how much rebuilding was needed at City and now he's shitting it. He's got to replace six players over 30, he's replaced a dodgy keeper with an even worse one, and he's having the slow realisation that his philosophy isn't going to cut it for every game here.
 

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Yeah but that is currently true for any club in the world except exactly one of those three mentioned, and he has already done two of them and the third is excluded due to his history with Barca.

Juve would give him the opportunity to manage in a good league, but without real competition so he mainly could focus on the CL, plus a historically great team.

PSG wouldn't be the same.
That's the same as Bayern and he got spanked by Real Madrid and Barca when he faced them. I think the same would happen if he took over Juventus and played them

I think Juventus would have a bigger chance at winning the CL with a more defensive manager
 

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Think we dodged a bullet with Pep. He could turn it around but he's got an awful lot to prove
 

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Think we dodged a bullet with Pep. He could turn it around but he's got an awful lot to prove
He's not used to having to work. I'm not sure what he was expecting, if he did his homework or whether he under-estimated the challenge. But he doesn't seem to have expected,or at least he's behaving quite badly for one who expected it to be tough. Had all the hallmarks of someone for who things aren't going as they anticipated and he's not taking it well.

But then surely he knew England was different to Spain and certainly Germany?
 

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Not surprising that he's looking to retire in a few years. I've always thought his wild gestures on the sidelines looked deranged, it's probably due to stress.
 

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The same pseudo-psychology guff about Mourinho cracking up or being broken by his Madrid tenure is rearing up it's head again with Guardiola. As if he was this chirpy jolly guy at Barcelona and Bayern.
 

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Dont blame him for being annoyed at English media, they pick a narrative when it suits them and stick to it. But at the same time, its weird for him to do this after a win from being down to 10 men.

He hasnt seemed happy with the City fans though, in terms of them not filling it out, or leaving early, or not making noise to help the team.

Its got to be a shock to him in terms of how much he will have to change. After all the purchases in the summer, I think he needs to fix or buy the following positions for the first team:
GK, RB, CB, LB. CM, CF