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Pep Guardiola agrees 1 year contract extension | Includes additional 1 year option
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
Ican'tseeshit.meme
Imagine winning your first trophy in the clubs history and having some spiteful cnut of a manager who's won everything several times over try to spoil it.
The way he berates opposition players is awful.
Crazy fumble again in a cup final with his overthought team selections that backfire. One of those ones where you knew they might lose 30 minutes before the game started, like dropping Rodri for the CL final. Just when you think he's got over that the year they won the treble, he's fecked it again and gone back to his old habits.
Hendo also lost his Dad last summer just after the Euros final so you can only imagine the emotion he felt at the final whistle, only to have that whinging bald scroat up in his face. Very poor I thought.
Agreed, it's just not entertaining as a system. There is a lot to admire about some of their players when they are on good form: Rodri, Haaland, De Bruyne, even Foden, but the way the team set up is incredible dull and methodical.
I don't know why he's basically given up on full backs and wingers these days, but deliberately making the pitch so narrow surely doesn't suit a team that will have better players than the opposition most of the time.
In my book, it's a bonus to rile Pep up that much
It's actually hilarious that they've failed to win some of these FA Cups after the piss easy draws they've had. I mean look at their final opponents since the takeover.
2011 - Stoke
2013 - Wigan
2019 - Watford
2023/24 - Us twice. The poorest Utd squads in quite some time.
2025 - Palace
Not once have they faced a properly good side in a final and they lost against Wigan, us and Palace
2011 - Stoke
2013 - Wigan
2019 - Watford
2023/24 - Us twice. The poorest Utd squads in quite some time.
2025 - Palace
Not once have they faced a properly good side in a final and they lost against Wigan, us and Palace
He seems to be getting easier and easier to rile up these days.
He's claiming they haven't finished trophyless this season as they won the Community Shield
He's claiming they haven't finished trophyless this season as they won the Community Shield
Now we know where Arteta gets it from!
He's probably just annoyed Henderson didn't give him the chance to do one of his irate post-match, on-field advice sessions with one of the opposing team.
A game that they were second best in for the entire 90 minutes, right before our season turned to shite.He's claiming they haven't finished trophyless this season as they won the Community Shield
Why do City suddenly have such bang average players? I've hardly heard about any of them and they definitely wouldn't get in to Guardiola's best teams :
Every time I look at their squad I wonder what the hell has happened to their team. It's like they don't have a transfer budget anymore.
- Doku
- Echeverri
- Savinho
- O'Reilly
- Nunes
- Lewis
- Bobb
- Struggling Foden
- Grealish
- Diaz
- Akanji
- Gundogan
- Kovacic
Every time I look at their squad I wonder what the hell has happened to their team. It's like they don't have a transfer budget anymore.
Most of their top players were signed when FFP was not a thing.
Their recruitment has been all over the place in the last few years. It could be instability in the footballing operation but I also think Pep has been changing his tactics over time - first going for a much more physical side and now entranced by the idea of getting more athletic - and maybe the vision of what kinds of players to recruit has become cloudier. Especially in midfield you can see this dynamic where Pep has recruited guys like Matheus Nunes, Kalvin Phillips, and Nico Gonzalez, clearly wanting more physicality and athleticism. And then he doesn't play them when he realizes their limitations in technique and footballing brain. But now he looks to want some more physical and athletic midfielders this summer like Reijndeers and Gibbs-White. Meanwhile, players that would seem like the most quintessential Guardiola midfielders from a past era like Vitinha and Neves never got much of a sniff from City.
Perhaps the simpler answer is just that replacing world class players is really hard. Their run of success was built on a succession of world class midfielders, inheriting Fernandinho, KDB, and David Silva and then adding Bernardo, Gundogan, and Rodri. Keeping up that level of quality is just really hard. The ready made article enters the market only rarely and sometimes they don't choose you (Wirtz, Rice, Bellingham). And perhaps nobody is a good enough talent scout to reliably find and develop them on the cheap.
Classic Pep.How old is Grealish? Is he old or ageing?
Losing Rodri for the entire season is a huge blow though and with him back next season as their best player anchoring the midfield, they will be back challenging for the title I am sure.
embarrassing that, even worst than managers counting it when they win other trophies, very embarrassing behaviour.He's claiming they haven't finished trophyless this season as they won the Community Shield
Weird that he seemed to be having a go at Henderson about time wasting that teams have been doing since the jurassic period. As Henderson pints out, they got 10 mins. Henderson obviously should have been sent off and then City win for sure. The dressing room sounding like a mess and I personally think that Pep is at the centre of that, causing agro and tension with multiple players, maybe bit like Jose, they get a tune for a number of years but their own players start to see their egotistic ways, always about them.
Happy to see him stay now, as I can only see things changing if they make major player changes.
In the better cups his record is massively suspect, has been since forever.It's actually hilarious that they've failed to win some of these FA Cups after the piss easy draws they've had. I mean look at their final opponents since the takeover.
2011 - Stoke
2013 - Wigan
2019 - Watford
2023/24 - Us twice. The poorest Utd squads in quite some time.
2025 - Palace
Not once have they faced a properly good side in a final and they lost against Wigan, us and Palace
He’s harping on about the Commuity Shield like his protege Lego Pep. Any manager using that as a sign of a trophy is a fecking idiot.
I think he will be gone at the end of next season.
He really is a fecking weirdo.
Hope so. Sick of the sight of him.
Dont forget about those 115's friends. It's a comin.
Should have left this season. Can't see this City side winning the league under him again.
They shouldnt even have won the Community Shield, Bernardo Silva should've got a straight red before he got the equaliser
How many games will end in his self mutilation before then though?
In the double digits I reckon
In the twilight of his years
15 pints in at this stage. Takes it toll.