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Watching Man City play Spurs tonight in the John Baird in Muswell Hill, I was backing City with some fervour, as I'd put £100 on them to win (at 6-4). It feels wrong to be "supporting" a spoilt-brat moneybags team like that (even for 90 minutes), yet in mitigation, you have to admit that Guardiola has them playing absolutely thrilling football. Everything about them is brilliant, but if I had to pick out one thing which struck me tonight, it's how confidently and cooly they pass it around from the back, even under pressure from opposition strikers. Their keeper and defenders almost always seem to have perfect control, time and options, and to find a pass. Also...no, I'll stop, at risk of boring myself, even.
Manchester City are no rivals of ours, so I suggest we all enjoy having Pep in our country for while, because he creates extraordinary, unfortgettable teams (who are also winning me a useful bit of pocket money!). I'll admit that I also have a bit of a hetro crush on the guy - he's just so flipping cool, bright and urbane. What is it with these foreign Johnnies? Our Colin or Big Sam, he ain't!
i'd rather City dominated for the next decade playing the wonderful football they do than a similar moneybags team win even a single title with Mourinho-style sh*t.
“The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.â€
Even the Scum had at least one youth team graduate though, even if he was the devil. City have shop bought from from to back. It seems a little bit hollow somehow.
Even the Scum had at least one youth team graduate though, even if he was the devil. City have shop bought from from to back. It seems a little bit hollow somehow.
Phil Foden came on for the last 10. City's youth system is very strong, probably the strongest in the country now.
I'd also add that despite costing £100m Stones and Sterling were very far from being the finished articles they look now under Pep. How often have the Scum ever brought through players like that?
Was a great game tonight. Spurs weren't allowed to string two passes together and resorted to petulance again. Dier Rose and especially Alli can be such stupid brats - Kane should probably have seen red as well.
De Bruyne shoving it right up Alli's 4rse belting his goal in after a foul was one of the great moments of the year IMO.
Still can't get over Ederson though. 70 yard laser guided pings with no run up. Never seen anything like it in my life, it's like a video game cheat code.
Man city, like Chelsea, like PSG etc are everything that's wrong with football.
Pep Guardiola best manager ever? No offence but do fck off. See how he does at Cardiff. Not half as good as Warnock is doing I bet!
different type of job though, Warnock wouldn't do as well with the money to spend and expectations at City.
Pep is a brilliant manager at top clubs, he has spent a fortune but so has Mourinhio and his team is nowhere near as good to watch as City are. Rather than buy ready made players a lot of his signings have been younger players who he is now developing into world class ones. Pep has now done it at 3 clubs making them so good and exciting to watch, the performance tonight was out of this world at times, they made a very good Spurs side look terrible.
A Michelin-starred chef would not be able to make the same food working with cheap frozen ingredients in a greasy caff, but they could probably rustle up a decent fry up. The chef at the greasy caff could not make the Michelin food no matter what ingredients they had. I'm a bit drunk, but I hope the analogy works! It would be interesting to see Pep with less talented players. He does get players doing Warnocky things like running their socks off - when they occasionally lose possession, their hussling and hunting down of opposing players is exhausting even to watch. They seem furious not to have the ball and determined to get it back immediately.
Was a great game tonight. Spurs weren't allowed to string two passes together and resorted to petulance again. Dier Rose and especially Alli can be such stupid brats - Kane should probably have seen red as well.
De Bruyne shoving it right up Alli's 4rse belting his goal in after a foul was one of the great moments of the year IMO.
Still can't get over Ederson though. 70 yard laser guided pings with no run up. Never seen anything like it in my life, it's like a video game cheat code.
Thank you Jose for bombing De Bruyne out . I would have to despise him.
What a player. Not just a fancy dan, can take some stick and was still bombing about in the last 5 mins.
Pep actually develops players which is potentially good news for England when you see the likes of Stones, Walker, Delph & Sterling playing regularly for City.
Mourinho buys form & discards players quickly if they lose form. E.g. De Bruyne, Salah etc.
I saw footage of Guardiola on the training ground with Sterling the other day. He was trying to get him into the correct position to receive a pass, and you could see Sterling thought it was beneath him to be doing that sort of thing, what with him being the best player in the world and everything. But Guardiola was insistent on it, and stopped the exercise 2 or 3 times until eventually he physically moved him into the body shape he wanted him to be in as the pass arrived.
It was quite instructive actually, to see a coach of Guardiola's standing not only being so directly involved in a training session, but also in terms of the impact he's having on players in an attempt to improve them and the team as a whole.
Thank you Jose for bombing De Bruyne out . I would have to despise him.
What a player. Not just a fancy dan, can take some stick and was still bombing about in the last 5 mins.
Enjoyed Pep saying after the game that KDB "runs as hard as a Conference player". He blitzed through that Spurs midfield so often that Dembele must be considering retirement.
Thing is you look at that team and contrary to what many here are saying it isn't a tedious certainty that another manager would have them winning 16 in a row let alone producing football of that standard. Look past the expense and this is a defence of three consistent bombscares over the years (Walker Otamendi Mangala) and Delph out of position. And can't you imagine Sterling Sane and Gundogan in Arsenal shirts faffing around flattering to deceive?
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