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The FA Cup Thread
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Ashley
Steve Chettle
Completely agree. There are plenty of examples of clubs chucking a lot of money at things and not winning things (Chelsea being the latest example).
Plus there is just winning the odd trophy, then there is being serial winners after having to dismantle, rebuild and innovate over and over again.
Pep is a top class manager. Even if he started somewhere like Cardiff, I think he'd have eventually find himself at the top anyway (like Ferguson did after Aberdeen). He's an innovator and revolutionary.
Eddie Yates
Steve Chettle
Farmer Jack
Stuart Pearce
Project Zeus
Steve Chettle
Anyone wanting United to win today just needs to look at fans like this.
Jesus Christ.
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Rzar
Bob McKinlay
They don't even spend much more than anyone else since Pep has been there:
Farmer Jack
Stuart Pearce
Unfortunately gets egged on by geniuses like this:
siforest65
Jack Burkitt
Post match conversation with my non football supporting wife.
“Forest took a point from these at the City Ground”
“That’s good, how did they get on at their place?”
“What are we having to eat tonight?”
“Forest took a point from these at the City Ground”
“That’s good, how did they get on at their place?”
“What are we having to eat tonight?”
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Yes, they spend big money on a signing or two they need to push them on (as any club at that end of the league will do) but it doesn't go much further than that.
Pep always comes across as classier than managers of some of the other big clubs do. Class bloke, class manager IMO.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
The only manager that has been openly disrespectful when talking about us this season.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Just examples from this season:
He sells Jesus, replaces him with Haaland
Sells Cancelo & Zinchenko, ends up changing his system to adapt and turns John Stones into prime Busquets.
Agree, he is classy - and made even better that Man United & Liverpool fans absolutely hate him because he nicks all the trophies they think belong to them. It is why I have a soft spot for Man City in general, the established "elite" absolutely hate them.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
Somewhat ironic we are discussing a managers fiscal responsibility when the club itself has allegedly breached ffp over a hundred times.
(That's not to say I don't rate the manager)
(That's not to say I don't rate the manager)
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
I genuinely do not give a crap about that.
The system is rigged against smaller clubs, the only way they could challenge top clubs was to break FFP rules. It just emphasises what a farce they are to begin with.
If we continue our growth we will get to a point where we will hit a cap of how much we can grow because the system is there to protect the elite clubs. Some clubs are allowed to spend more than others because of their size, it's a complete piss take.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
That's a different argument isn't it? I agree FFP is hugely flawed, but if they broke the rules everyone else is adhering to then they should be punished, and we shouldn't really be applauding their spending.
Forest's medical staff could turn John Stones into biscuits though.
BryanRoy22
Ian Bowyer
Guardiola is a genius.
Man City is not a job many have been able to get to grips to before. Man United have spent more than Man City.
He's changed the landscape of management.
Man City is not a job many have been able to get to grips to before. Man United have spent more than Man City.
He's changed the landscape of management.
GOBIAS
Ian Bowyer
Lee Hendrie?
Agent Penguin
Geoff Thomas
The guy with the 97 shirt on is in police custody. Met Police have put out a statement.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
I've always been a big fan of Pep, even back when he was Barcelona manager (what a team that was!). He's smart and adaptable, and makes players better. I agree that most of the criticism comes from bitterness, especially from United and Liverpool fans.
I genuinely think he'd be successful at any club you put him in.
Agent Penguin
Geoff Thomas
Pep, as a Coach, is on an entirely different level to anyone else currently in the game.
He has taken the lessons from his own master, Johan Cruijff, and revolutionised the way the game is played.
And he’s made John Stones look like Franz Beckenbauer.
He has taken the lessons from his own master, Johan Cruijff, and revolutionised the way the game is played.
And he’s made John Stones look like Franz Beckenbauer.
Cloughie1975
John Robertson
Good.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Even as a fan of Pep, I was unsure about the Stones signing. But he's turned Stones into an outstanding player.
Pep changed FC Bayern so much, they still play the way he set them up years ago.
That is how you show yourself as a world-class coach. He’s a borderline genius when it comes to football, because he just sees things others miss.
That is how you show yourself as a world-class coach. He’s a borderline genius when it comes to football, because he just sees things others miss.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Yeah I don't disagree entirely.
It's just I don't really care whether they twisted the rigged rules in their favour because when you look at how they are ran now it just emphasizes how stupid the rules are.
If they were still at it in their position they are in now I would give less sympathy, but most of the charges are from when they first came in and had to break them to compete with others.