Think of it like this, if the bulk of the teams - let's say 10th to 20th (the reality is it used to be more) are just getting hammered home and away for the most part how is your points total important? Because that's where the big scores comes from, what you ideally want to see in a strong or competitive league is as tight a gap between relegation and 1st. That is a bit fanciful in reality, but you want teams all taking points off each other.
Pep Guardiola Threatens to quit Man City
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It's not a zero sum game though. Top teams getting better from one year to another doesn't imply that other teams got worse. It could just be that the league overall got better. You're essentially arguing that if instead of Liverpool improving 20 points between 17/18 and 18/19, City would have been 20 points worse off it somehow would have been a stronger league. That would only be true if the "quality" over time in a league always remain the same, which clearly isn't true.
Really needs to get his s*** together as Liverpool are going to run away with it next season. The Premier League needs to say sorry to him and let him spend what he needs to catch Liverpool.
I like how after years of signing De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Sane, Sterling, Mahrez, Rodri, Gundogan, etc, they seem to be going back to the Nolito, Dzeko, Negredo, Mangala ans Bony of old
Haha how dare they remove cheat mode, I am not playing anymore!!!
Marmoush seems like a good signing, but have there been some this summer already I've missed?
You don't rate the Dutch midfielder?
No, though they appear to be signing Reijnders for way too much money
It's been going a couple years. Kovacic, Mateus Nunes, Doku, that defender in January, etc
Yes but not for City going from De Bruyne to him
Verdict should be quite soon I think. He'll only need a small squad in the championship ? There's no doubt about that.
If last night is anything to go off I wouldnt be suprised if he didnt last the season, there are loads of City fans on Twitter wanting him to go already
Idiots on Twitter are hardly a barometer of anything. He'll leave when he wants to go, and it won't be this season.
He wont last the season if they continue to play the way they did today
He'll scratch his skin off
The baldest of frauds. So bald he’ll scratch the scalp off his head.
He'll be demanding some shiny new toys before transfer window shuts from the Sheikh after that showing.
£150m on Isak
You can always trust Pep to get the chequebook out and spaff another couple of hundred million on players 'he does not need' but sure he can do with!
People being too harsh on him. He hasn’t had the backing of the club in the transfer market. Hard to compete with the limitations he has
Ha. Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
£150m on Isak
£130m on Baleba
£40m on Lammens
£60m on Wharton
That’s all they need compete for the league this season. They’re almost there.
£130m on Baleba
£40m on Lammens
£60m on Wharton
That’s all they need compete for the league this season. They’re almost there.
Time to check out the red side?
Hope that happens. Don’t see him as a great replacement at all.
Nothing to do with the charges, promise guv'nor, cross me heart and ope to die.
Nothing an extra billion won't sort
Good, feck off you bald weirdo
Guardiola or Maresca?
That's a bit of a head scratcher.
Didn't he sign a bumper b̶r̶i̶b̶e̶ extension until 2027?
Can't see him going, they've gotten away with the charges and everyone agrees he's g̶r̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶e̶q̶u̶e̶ ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ the greatest manager of all time.
Can't see him going, they've gotten away with the charges and everyone agrees he's g̶r̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶e̶q̶u̶e̶ ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ the greatest manager of all time.
Think Chelsea fans will be quite happy with that outcome.
The follicle positive discrimination is going too damn far now.
strange time for someone at club to leak that. I'm sure they'll be looking to spend big in Jan, but that could make players think twice if they know Pep is leaving.
I didn't think Maresca was that highly regarded, weird one. I don't think Chelsea fans are that bought into him.
I think fans are bit split on Maresca tbh. Don't think he's loved in the way Tuchel and Conte were. He's not disliked the way Benitez and Sarri were either. Some fans definitely really like him. Other fans don't seem to rate him at all.
So yeah, I would say it would.be a mixed reaction. I read somewhere that he switched agents to Jorge Mendes a few months ago, so this coming out now I guess shouldn't be a surprise.
If Pep leaves City and the premier league, I think it's a free run for Arsenal. That's unless Liverpool get their act together. Then we just need Chelsea and United to get their act together and we will have the top 4 back.
Kinda like the unpredictable top 4 but unfortunately it's been at the cost of United.
Kinda like the unpredictable top 4 but unfortunately it's been at the cost of United.
Surely Kompany is the more obvious choice.
I was hoping we get Maresca because Chelsea will be Chelsea and sack him at some point in the near future.
I was hoping we get Maresca because Chelsea will be Chelsea and sack him at some point in the near future.
He will win the EPL this year (Hello, Arsenal, you perennial bottlers) and if the club lets him - will go out on the high note like Sir Alex did. Makes sense
Been here long enough, has worked so hard that [allegedly] lost his wife, ffs. Not shocking he needs a break.
Been here long enough, has worked so hard that [allegedly] lost his wife, ffs. Not shocking he needs a break.
I think it would be catastrophically stupid, personally. If Chelsea's goal is to compete for the biggest titles in the next couple years, restarting with a new manager would be idiotic. Maresca is very obviously not the problem with our team and anyone we could feasibly get would likely be a downgrade at this point.