I had the second feeling like a month feeling before but, I was on something that was not exactly performance enhancing.
Pep - Doping (?) | Are PEDs being used by footballers
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Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
If pep is doing this undetected then why arent we?
Pep's Barca teams with pale faced Spanish midgets made our ridiculously athletic teams look like an under 16 side technically, tactically and physically.
Cake? Be careful on that stuff. One young kiddie cried all the water out of his body.
I think it was because they were better than us at this thing called football.
Listen I'm all for catching cheats but unless there's actual evidence that Pep is doing anything different than any other big club in every sport in the world then it's not really news.
You keep sucking on those lemons fella.
You can’t pick up a newspaper without reading column after column about this City side. You can’t listen to a football podcast without ten minutes being spent waxing lyrical about whether this is one of the greatest Premier League sides (far too early to tell in my opinion), there’s even half a dozen threads about City on here and they average 54,000 in a stadium with a capacity of 54,500.
The fact you’re commenting on a City thread shows you care.
Chelsea had no fans 20 years ago.
Holy shit
“In 2010 UEFA fined Barcelona €30,000 for failing to provide accurate details of their players’ whereabouts. When anti-doping officials arrived to take samples, the players were not present to be tested. Barcelona blamed a system failure for their inability to notify authorities of a change in their training schedule.“
Sound familiar?
Nobody’s ever going to catch them
because they know the system
too well and their doctors are just too good to ever get caught. WTF is a €30.000 Euro fine. Or a £50,000 fine in Man City’s case when Guardiola did it with them?
I care about the Premier League. Unfortunately, every year that city win it, it scratches away a bit more prestige and legitimacy from this great league. At least if Arsenal or Liverpool won it, it would be a win for football and the integrity of our league.
"Last one on drugs is a queer!", shouts Guardiola.
The League should give additional 10 points for clubs with low net spend, and additional 10 for proper clubs with rich history like United and Liverpool. How about that?
Why didn’t you address any of his points?
Sounds fair enough that. Where do I sign up?
Does this explain the size of that baby making machine Raheem Sterling he really seems to have bulked up lately and has insane new found energy and strength lol the little toe rag would love if they got caught using PED's but the media would still find a way to protect their darling Pep Just admit it lads we are bitter and let's hoe Jose and the team are so maybe just maybe we can use this feeling to make sure we end their domination next season. I fecking hate citeh
I agree. Too much bias to objectively even consider it right now, as a United fan.
Also, physicality is just one thing. There is no doubt that Pep's teams are tactically superior to most of the sides they face, too.
I assume they must have been doing all this last year and they were still crap so I’m not having it
The only “doping” going on at City is Financial, and since for now the media and football fans of the nation think it’s great that anyone but Utd are winning the league nobody is bothered
Give it a few years when PSG and City have turned French and English football into gloried SPLs and people will be crying out for some regulation
The only “doping” going on at City is Financial, and since for now the media and football fans of the nation think it’s great that anyone but Utd are winning the league nobody is bothered
Give it a few years when PSG and City have turned French and English football into gloried SPLs and people will be crying out for some regulation
If he's doing it he's doing it like a genius he is.
The links are interesting but if it's genuinely true, I struggle to see how no other clubs would also be exploiting similar advantages. Or why none of them are kicking up a fuss about it.
Really don't know if it's true but does bother me is how much faster, fitter, and more technical his teams look compared to anyone else. Other managers surely must be able to replicate what he does?
Confidence is a big help.
I thought Pep-Doping was a Stoke player
Not true. You were never there in the late 60s and 70s. Stamford Bridge was packed
Very good.
They can't because they can't coach like him it's really simple. He also has the reputation so he can impose it.
He has the aura that makes his players run to the last man on the pitch.
The only player that has been above him ion terms of power in a club is Messi.
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Pep was cleared of those accusations way back. But many United fans just want it to be true.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/11/pep-guardiola-drug-test-appeal-brescia
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/11/pep-guardiola-drug-test-appeal-brescia
Why didn't he address any of mine?
I really refuse to believe he’s some messiah of a coach with powers beyond anyone else. In my opinion, that style of football is the way it should be.
Believe what you want. He has a style that he has imposed everywhere he has gone and his teams have all looked incredible in their 3rd season with him. All have identical playing styles.
No other coach can do what he does.
Hahaha. That’s brilliant and makes me enjoy the current situation even more.
Keep going.
There’s a lot of excellent reds on here, you aren’t one of them.
It’s true though, your club is seen as a bit of a joke in the footballing world. You pissed around in the lower divisions, occasionally getting into the premier league achieving the square root of sod all for many a year before oil money came in and bought a few titles. It could just as easily have been Everton, Newcastle or Fulham. There’s absolutely nothing about your club you can own as a fan and be proud of. Well, if you can then that’s up to you I guess but you’ll have trouble getting credit from fans over the age of 13.
Were averaging 18,000 in the 90’s compared with City’s 30,000
That is an odd statement, it is fans over 13, and considerably over 13 as in my case that remember football pre Premier League and pre Sky 4, when huge amounts of money was pumped into selective clubs.
Those fans remeber plenty of clubs with long and proud traditions, from the Nottingham Forests,Derby, Sheffield Wednesday, Bolton, Blackpool and yes even Manchester City. Anyone who belittles another team or its fans because of its lack of supposed history, all clubs have and it is all equally relevent to fans of said club, is far more likely to be the prepubescent.
Pmsl. 13 being the pertinent number.
You’ve literally got nothing left to have a go at. I’ve supported City for 32 years Man and boy and these are the lamest comebacks I’ve ever seen. Still, if it makes you feel better.
Are things this bad that our fans are desperately wanting this allegations to be true?
He did
It’s funny really because certainly in my experience of talking to opposition fans when following City up and down the country, one doesn’t get that impression at all. I also know plenty of long-standing reds and while they obviously don’t like to see City do well, they’re accepting of the situation and far from discrediting City’s current standing and how it came about, they’re more concerned about their own club. As a recent example, when myself and a few blues were on the tram back into town after the derby the other week, an old school United fan got on at Trafford Bar. He was no shrinking violet but we had a bit of light-hearted banter with him. There were no digs from his side regarding City’s money and nothing from him about how we as fans don’t deserve to see any success. He did, however, say that our songs are shit and was lamenting his own team for not having more of a go.
Maybe you mix in different circles but I’ve found that once you get outside t’internet and into the real world of football fandom, the narrative you’re painting just isn’t there to anything like the extent you’re claiming.
He really wasn't cleared of them. A possible mechanism was identified under which the test could give a false positive. The was no way to retest the sample as too much time has passed.
However the false positive rate was low, making it unlikely the test was wrong. Particularly as it wasn't one failed test, there were two failed tests.
Whether he did knowingly take anything is another matter. He always denied it. The same goes for the team testing issues, things like failure to notify errors could be just bad luck and pure coincidence.
The problem with the testing methodology in football is that no one is seriously looking for doping,. It's hard to know what's really happening, or how common it is, let alone identify the individuals who are involved.
This. Some of the responses here are ridiculous. I remember the days we used to talk about RAWK conspiracies and their nutty fans... we seem to be on the fast track to RAWK levels of hysteria.