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ugh I hate this kind of top 4 premier League banter. my kids are always watching this kind of shite on YouTube
Harry Maguire is clearly a very good player. a top end premier League defender and England international
Yes, it was a ridiculous thread title, stupid in fact............how could Pep make Harry Maguire look good?Originally Posted by Rjk
Well start with some plastic surgeryYes, it was a ridiculous thread title, stupid in fact............how could Pep make Harry Maguire look good?
Sorry, next time I'll think of a Liverpool player. It'd be surprising though if Pep could make Maguire look good as he'd probably not be in his team. But then again, maybe he'd find a way to use his strengths like he did with Stones.
Reading the papers, I see there's a lot of FFP barbs. Like it or not, it was ever thus except the status quo has gone and there are some new richest clubs. I admit hearing clubs like Real Madrid complaining gives me an un Christian like pleasure. Having been funded by Madrid town council they have just lost as the stakes have gone up. "I'll see your city and I'll raise a country". Like all aspects of life, having money almost alway opens up more options. Manchester United are so rich that they've been able to waste over a billion since Ferguson left with very little in return. Chelsea seems to have wasted a lot. What was the underlying reason to try and apply FFP? It makes sense if it was to stop clubs going into huge debt to try and buy success. It seems to make less sense if money is being pumped into a club with no increase in debt. There's a certain amount of money available in football that's being pushed around. When Manchester United (over)paid 80m for Maguire, that money (eventually) should be available to Leicester to potentially recirculate. It shouldn't be lost to football if an owner doesn't take it out. Having more money in the system doesn't seem to be of any philosophical difference. I'm not talking about the morality of football being "worth" billions or where this new money is coming from.
I suppose the danger is if a benefactor decides to withdraw for whatever reason. These people are rich beyond Croesus. They could be made to put enough money in a place to guarantee that the club be run for the next n years. That'd probably stop the investors anyway.
Pep isn't that great a manager
They could have lost that tonight no problem
There’s loads of ‘could haves’ in life. Funny how ‘winners’ turn them into ‘I did its’.
Good players make good managers.
But they didn't.
A great manager would have made the team at his disposal with the money spent would have won that easily
Everyone thought that's what would happen
They were very lucky to win that and it could have gone either way
What did pep do that others wouldn't that won his team that game ?
Simple question
The simple answer to all your questioning of Pep is ‘If my auntie had bollocks etc etc’. His side has just pulled off the treble and you’re deriding him as a lucky manager. Yes, they’ve spent money but the crux of that is who you spend it on. The big spenders have always been around in football right back to the days of Preston, Blackburn and those other Lancashire pioneers luring Scots south of the border, it isn’t a recent phenomenon. The big winners are always the ones who spend the big money cleverly, Pep has done that at Man City, he’s proved that he’s a top notch manager, he and his teams find a way to win. They’ll have an equally dedicated successor in Vincent Kompany when the time is right as well, he’s turning top jobs down as we speak as he knows his fate.
It wasn't a great game or a great performance, and for a while, it looked like he'd made some wrong choices. But he didn't, he won. He managed a team to the treble. Yes, there is a disgusting amount of money involved. But you can't just buy it. PSG have proved that.
And the simple answer is that he put out a team that scored a goal and didn't concede one. On any other Saturday, 3 points in the bag. That's how you win things.
I think mere mortals with unreal amounts of money to spend on players are being lauded as majicians
I don't buy that
He's had some terrible luck in the Champions League over the last few seasons, especially last year, they were the best team this year and deserved to win the Champions League absolutely no doubt about it and had a tough draw to get through to the final.
I think he was lucky tonight and his team
Everyone needs a bit of luck now and then.
Well pep had some tonight
His keeper saved his arse as Milan were easily dropping balls into the city box
Come on now Sludge, that’s like saying Haaland saved his arse by scoring so many goals. That’s what the ‘keeper is there for, it’s his job and that’s why the manager signed him and picks him.
Who brought the keeper that 'saved his arse' to the club?
What influence has pep had on haaland ?
It's mostly the money he cost imo
It’s also funny how born losers constantly denigrate winners. Actually, scratch that - it’s not funny at all. It’s incredibly tedious.
Go and have a wank over your baldy coach best mate
The money
That's what
Best manager for me
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