2017 - 2018 Football Thread - Page 149

On December 17 2017 20:58 sharkie wrote:
KDB has always been running like crazy but now he strings crazy passes on a consistent basis. Pep is so lucky to have him and props to City management for never letting him go.

On December 17 2017 21:48 Pandemona wrote:

He has 23 man squad or world class players in this current man city side. They have a better squad than both Barca and Real put together lol.
What he is doing with it is good no question, but it is hardly him doing it with 11-13 world class players plus some kids is it xD


Bravo, Kompany, Oatemendi, Stones, Fernandinho, DeBruyne, Sterling, Aguero, Jesus, Silva, Gundogan, Sane. Not many from last season no, but that added to this with;
Bernado Silva, Walker, Mendy, Ederson, Danilo who could get into real side probably, not Mendy probably even though he good but because Marcelo is best left back in the world.

On December 17 2017 13:04 Rebs wrote:


Peps over rated though.. its all about the money. Bundesliga and La Liga are jokes.. Or so the refrain goes anyway.

On December 17 2017 22:14 WillyWanker wrote:

None of those would be starters in Real/Barça, at the start of this season.

On December 17 2017 23:49 aseq wrote:
One could argue, hehe. KBD is easily worth that, I wouldn't put Sterling on 112m. He's just the guy that runs towards the far post when the attack begins.

On December 17 2017 23:49 aseq wrote:
One could argue, hehe. KBD is easily worth that, I wouldn't put Sterling on 112m. He's just the guy that runs towards the far post when the attack begins.

On December 18 2017 01:16 Bacillus wrote:
Any idea how comfortably ManU is winning their games these days? The last few games I've checked, they're statistically creating less attempts at goal than West Brom or Bournemouth for example.

Obviously number of attempts don't matter if you score the necessary ones, but it still feels quite alarming/amusing that they're often losing in those stats against below mid table teams. Do they look like they can keep doing that and still win games consistently?

On December 17 2017 21:48 Pandemona wrote:

He has 23 man squad or world class players in this current man city side. They have a better squad than both Barca and Real put together lol.
What he is doing with it is good no question, but it is hardly him doing it with 11-13 world class players plus some kids is it xD

On December 18 2017 01:16 Bacillus wrote:
Any idea how comfortably ManU is winning their games these days? The last few games I've checked, they're statistically creating less attempts at goal than West Brom or Bournemouth for example.

Obviously number of attempts don't matter if you score the necessary ones, but it still feels quite alarming/amusing that they're often losing in those stats against below mid table teams. Do they look like they can keep doing that and still win games consistently?

On December 18 2017 04:20 Pandemona wrote:

£250 million this season SO FAR more to come in january as he said
£213 million last season.
Total @ Man City = £463 million and still going!

Everyone flames Mourinho for doing same thing though, buying everything in his sight and then when he wins its, well he bought the title or look at his squad. Pep has always done the same thing too minus at Barca where he had the best squad in the world in front of him. He also did add to it though because it was Barcelona and he could.
Someone already said it as a joke but, Pep not one the european cup with a portuguese side and never will because he won't manage a club like that. Say if he went to Liverpool, that would be a test or Spurs. But why would he, why would he go to a club (like Mourinho) who can't facilitate his need for transfers and players by spending alot he has no reason too thus it will never be a debate.
He is winning right now after a shite first season in England, he found why he failed last season, he failed same way Klopp has, because too many games and to few numbers to rotate and be competitive still. He spent another £200 million plus (and more inc) to do this, he now has a 23 man world class squad of players that would walk into the first 11s (let alone squads) of most top teams in europe! It isn't to say they aren't playing well or looking good, it is just that he has the best players to do this.

Would love to see him and Mourinho eventually become international managers that be cool, see if he can take a national side to glory and same with Mourinho. However i doubt that interests Pep unless Catalan indepedence happens and he takes that side over but even then they wouldn't be enough in numbers i don't think. Still be great if he became Spain manager and proved me wrong.

On December 18 2017 05:01 Pandemona wrote:
No it isn't you can't say an argument is irrelevant when they bought players to sit on the fkn bench. Benrnado Silva, Danilo, Douglas Luiz come to mind! That together is £120 million of talent for BENCH. Add to the rest they already had in terms of Yaya Toure, Gundogan, Delph, Jesus, Sane, Mangala that were all on the bench last season anyway. Now Jesus and Sane start more, the rest still sit on bench and come in as rotation. They are also going to buy a new centre back in January as well to mean they ahve even more options. You cannot say he is winning because he has coached the players he had because he bought most of them and the good players who where their are good and winners anyway?
He has bought so much to make it easy to rotate and play high aggressive closing down and such in the premier league. We all saw how badly Klopp failed last season due to going to extreme with it and his players injured all time. He also has options too in the attacking sense anyway.

You don't understand football if you think Pep has coached this team into what we see today with 23 man squad of super stars that now how to win football and the star players already at club before he joined! DeBruyne / Sterling / Kompany / Silva / Aguero etc, they won the league without him before remember this isn't knew, they blew the league away the year they won it with Pellegrini too. He was a great manager too wasn't he....

Yeah i said he wouldn't be able to win with the style he showed, he aint going to have 90% possession in England like he did with Barca, he spent loads and failed, he spent even more than before and now is achieveing. He averages 65% possession this season, so do Chelsea for example...hardly Barcelona esc is it!

You also are doing exactly what i did....but you come out when Pep is wining and on top and call him the best manager in the world. No one cared what he did at Bayern because he didn't do anything with them, he failed in Europe and just won domestically which wasn't much of a feat. He hasn't hit the heights of when he was at Barca with the best squad in the world, in too which he still didn't win all the time in. He has put foundations in with a big spending spree and huge investment into how Man City is run. Can he really build something here, can he dominate with them. This season so far yes he has, but there is Europe to conquer and the rest of the season to go.

On December 18 2017 01:16 Bacillus wrote:
Any idea how comfortably ManU is winning their games these days? The last few games I've checked, they're statistically creating less attempts at goal than West Brom or Bournemouth for example.

Obviously number of attempts don't matter if you score the necessary ones, but it still feels quite alarming/amusing that they're often losing in those stats against below mid table teams. Do they look like they can keep doing that and still win games consistently?