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so we all were told to get down on our knees and welcome the messiah of footballing management Mr Pep Gourdiola. the question I'm asking now is is he really what he's been billed up to be? granted he's good but i do feel he's been vastly overrated and its gone to his head. lets look at his c.v. he's won buckets of stuff…but at two clubs that allardyce would win buckets with. yes barcelona played such wonderful tippy tappy stuff…but is that it? is pep a man who could take over at hull city and get them playing and winning? for me the jury is now out on him. he came with a big reputation and no doubt earns multi millions a day. but man city on the field look no better than under the rubbish and weak pelligrini. he tries his 'system' of passing it around from the goalkeeper, the defence etc but this causes him more problems than it solves. he sacks hart and brings in a 'footballing goalkeeper'…in all seriousness who needs a footballing goalkeeper? for me its all gimmicks and silly tricks…a lot of hot air and needless fluff when in fact he is overlooking the basics of motivating the players, tightening the team defensively and using the 'better' players to outplay the opposition. his press conferences are bordering on disgraceful. are they supposed to be a joke? if Bilic came out and started the petulant little girl talk id be embarrassed that this was the face of our club. whats this all about? he's a grown man, highly paid pro is what we were told…yet his cry baby antics with the press is disgraceful imo. the man was asking him direct footballing questions and pep went completely defensive like how dare he be asked questions about his genius…well i had a lot of time for him before he arrived but not anymore…i hope he fails. he can take his 'we won't tackle' to wenger and the two of them can have a love fest of failure.
I'm with you on this one. I'd
I'm with you on this one. I'd go further and say no he couldn't do it with a smaller club. I think its very easy to get carried away with these managers that have only managed at top clubs. You have the best players that can adapt and play anyway you want them to. If you don't fancy them you can get rid and get someone else in, a they're all clambering to play for a top team. It makes Ranieri's achievement all the more remarkable. As a rule if Bilic, Koeman, Hughes, Howe and Dyche managed Man City, Man U, Chelski or Arksnal then they would still be top four, because they have top four players. if Guardiola, Mourinho, Conte an Wenger managed either West ham, Evertom, Stoke, Bournemouth or Burnley would they become top four overnight? No. Also I think football need to take a look at itself. Theres so much crap going on in the world, that when you see these 40/50/60 year old men like Mourinho, Wenger and Guardiola, behaving like spoilt brats, it turns me of the sport as much as someone like "hard man" Phil Jones wriggling and screaming like a little girl.
Yet I agree can't see pep
Yet I agree can't see pep getting us winning championships let alone hull. Good manager, yes. Over-rated yes. Would do ok with us but wouldn't get us in champions league
busted flush
that's pep to me....see he thought ahh this leagues easy after 6 matches top the league with this team I will blow everyone away.....well its not spain/Germany its England and you don't get easy matches conte soon learned that and bam its chelskis league to lose this season nobody else will come close to them....but pep does not like the rough and tumble of the prem everyone should just sit back and oooh and ahhh a tippy tap footy...actually laughed when he moaned about the challenge on his keeper saying "everywhere in football you know you are not allowed to touch the keeper in the 6 yard box as it is a foul" errrr know mate as long as you do not deliberately foul any player keeper included then its not a foul...overrated plonker grrrr..