And I joked yesterday about him buying a winger to cover Sane. The man is a fraud
Pep's spending is insane (£941m and counting at City)
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Gonna be even sweeter when we beat them to the CL 
Wait, so if we add agent's fee, image rights, taxes and bonuses how much will Laporte cost again? £200 million?
Absolutely bizarre the fact they pulled out of the Sanchez deal. Then a week later bid, yet again, huge amounts of money on a defender. And may have to break their transfer record for Mahrez. Twice in a week.
Personally I really don't give a shit. He has the money available and will spend it to achieve his goals, ie. winning the Premier League and Champions League. We are doing the same.
Who's crying? Specifically.
non man utd fans are saying the same thing about us/mourinho though
Pep’s nailed on to manage PSG once he’s done at City ain’t he?
In what way is he a genius? Genuine question.
He inherited the best club side in history, the only team in a one-club league and the richest team in the world where he buys his way out of trouble.
Go to Italy, take over AC Milan and win serie A. That would be genius. Hell, take over Liverpool and win the prem. That would be impressive. Up until now, everything he's done has been expected, so why is he hailed a genius?
City have been in FUT money-no-issue mode for a decade, it's not like he's that different from his immediate predecessors. Apart from the fact he's a complete hypocrite.
How he (or the media) can trash us for Sanchez, yet immediately go out and piss up 60 million on Laporte and then, following Sane's injury, even suggest spunking another 60 million plus on Mahrez is hilarious.
Of course, Pep, you 'can't spend 80 million on a transfer', but destroying defender fees is absolutely fine. Hair-splitting, overrated manager that will be found out when the money dries up. And it will.
How he (or the media) can trash us for Sanchez, yet immediately go out and piss up 60 million on Laporte and then, following Sane's injury, even suggest spunking another 60 million plus on Mahrez is hilarious.
Of course, Pep, you 'can't spend 80 million on a transfer', but destroying defender fees is absolutely fine. Hair-splitting, overrated manager that will be found out when the money dries up. And it will.
Yurp. Will spend yet another fortune too.
I disagree. Unless you rank anything below a treble as "non-genius", in which case, feel free to skip this.
Even adjusted for inflation? Because otherwise, comparing spend across 2 decades is pointless.
Damn. Who knew that the secret to getting a massive trophy haul was just a shit-ton of money.
Is he? People keep saying it but I genuinely don't see it.
Haters will say its fake, pep is a genius, he converts money into success. Our very own Donald Trump!
This logic works all the way down the league. Poor Coventry.
Since Mourinho/Pep arrived we have spent approx 25% more than Everton. City, with Mahrez would have spent approx 65% more than us.
Yes I know net spend and wages are a different story but by any scale they are blowing the rest of the league out of the water with their spending. We probably are the ones who can compete but evidently there's another level it needs to go to.
Isn't it?
If we did he would go out and spend even more money. They are not going away and it'll be impossible for them not to win trophies. I just pray and hope we win more.Gonna be even sweeter when we beat them to the CL
To reinforce this, even fecking Mancini won the title with City. With a worse squad too, and while SAF was at United. Pep isn’t doing anything other than the expected, or maybe not even that, as the media had Pep winning the league at a canter before last season. He couldn’t do that of course, when any manager worth his salt would have had enough to do so.
Why are people still not realising exactly why they didn’t get Sánchez???
Definition of genius: Exceptional ability or skill in a particular subject or activity.
You'd have to be extremely biased or deliberately obtuse to think Guardiola (along with Mourinho, Simeone, and a few others) doesn't qualify as a genius in the field of football management.
This place aint gonna be pretty when they win the quad
Maybe UEFA will do something about it when their precious PSG get done by City in the CL.
This thread is funny. Are people just intentionally blocking out that Jose moaned about us not spending enough money a month ago or something?
You'd swear it's some.. tactic that manager's use to get more funds off the board for transfers or something, no?
Nah, what am I talking about, stupid Pep!
You'd swear it's some.. tactic that manager's use to get more funds off the board for transfers or something, no?
Nah, what am I talking about, stupid Pep!
Yes. He's in the elite tier of his profession, and has managed world class sides and pushed them to elite heights performance and results wise (Barcelona and Bayern).
I'm not sure how people can watch City week in and week out and not see the impact of his work on the pitch. I guess a rebuttal question would be, who qualifies as a genius to you, that is currently active?
He is a great manager, how anyone can try deny that is stupid, but being a great manager doesn't make you a genius!
As usual the truth tends to lie somewhere in between the extremes.
They aren't going away anytime soon agreed but Pep will have his meltdown soon enough. It's going to be hilarious watching how the football media turn on him when he leaves.
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You guys are silly suggesting he's not as good as he is.
All he needs is the best team of all time with the greatest player in the world; a team absolutely dominating their domestic league; or a team with the muscle to outspend everybody in the world throwing money out of the window at will to win things. It's not much to ask for you bitter cnuts.
All he needs is the best team of all time with the greatest player in the world; a team absolutely dominating their domestic league; or a team with the muscle to outspend everybody in the world throwing money out of the window at will to win things. It's not much to ask for you bitter cnuts.
Who is a genius then? Not trolling, I want to see who qualifies as a genius in the Caf's opinion.
I think the argument is stupid, but he didn't push Bayern anywhere. They generally stayed at the same level they were the season before he joined.
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But what did he do at Bayern that makes him a genius? Bayern are expected to win the title every year. They are favorites and they buy their rivals best players which increases their chance of retaining the title. Surely his failure to win the Champions League carries more weight than the unbeaten record(that was carried from the previous regime) or winning the title with most games to spare(he beat that by one game again from the previous regime).
Irrespective of whether Pep is a genius, his time at Bayern should not be seen as a genius at work.
Did they not win the Champions league the year before Pep took over? That would suggest the team maybe went backwards more.
If he does not win the CL now he is a failure and his legacy is damaged.
He might be a genius, I don't know, I don't think he has done enough to be quantified as a footballing genius yet.
Fergie was a genius, master of mind games and motivation, won the title with some average Man Utd sides etc.
Mourinho was a genius for winning the CL with Porto and to a lesser extent, with Inter.
The problem with Pep is that he's always had great sides to back him up. A true managerial genius is someone who can do it without also having the best team in the competition. He might do that in the future, though.
Tbh I feel uncomfortable using the word "genius" with football in general though, it's a sport, not Mathematics or Rocket Science!
Yes, they're both geniuses. I'd put Simeone and Allegri and Conte up there too. Wenger was one, but seems to have fallen behind with the times. I'd like to see Sarri with Napoli for a few more seasons. Pochettino has the potential to make it up to that tier if he continues to make the right steps, either with Spurs or another team.Jose Mourinho
That's a touchy subject on here though. So I avoided it.
I don't know anyone in the real (non-Caf) world who think he'll be that. Most people I know have the ability to differentiate between various achievements and give them a form of 'worth'.
And it's several decades since Busby, c50 years since Shankly and Stein, c40 since Paisley and Clough and yet most football fans still "care" about how they did it. That doesn't mean that their specific achievements have to be exactly repeated for a modern manager to be a great and I understand it's unlikely (though Leicester was Clough-Lite) but Peps done nothing to be deemed a great, let alone the greatest..... imho anyway.