He is young and so should not be written off, but he just does not look very good and obviously had some really big mistakes early on. It should not be a surprise though as given his lack of experience and pedigree. It is a move that we can confidently say we’d have been absolutely no where near as even if we’d seen things about him that we rated he just had not done nearly enough in nearly high enough a level of football for us to have 1) spend proper money on him or, putting ourselves in City’s shoes, taken the risk of him being the guy we needed to fill a gap that was risking our entire season.
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Looks like people are finally waking up to the fact that the bald fraud ain’t a football genius:
Winning with cheat codes isn’t impressive; losing with them even suggests ineptitude.
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You’re not the only one !
He was one of the generation of Barca kids drafted into the first team to fill the gaps created by the first round of cost cutting. He did well and looked like he could be a long term fixture there having a exit clause added to his new senior contract in the 100s of millions. Then they bought new players anyway and pushed him off on loan before he ended up picking up his career at Porto. He has barely played since rocking up to City for 50m
Unrelated, he is the son of Deportivo great Fran, one of the key players in that side that won the title in the late 90s and who scored one of the goals in that mad CL tie against Milan that showed they were capable of collapsing the year before we Instanbulled them
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“You’re just a broke Chelsea, you’re just a broke Chelsea!”
On the clubs fighting to be in the Champions League next season, Pep Guardiola said: “Newcastle won the Carabao Cup, Liverpool won the Premier League and Manchester City won the Community Shield. The other teams didn’t win anything…”
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Yeah, the Shield is the most prestigious of the three, you cheating fraud. 
It has less prestige than the EFL Trophy*
*Note I said Trophy.
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The thing about Guardiola is that it’s not enough for him to win trophies. He needs the world to know it’s all him. He needs to be to architect. This leads him to doing mad shit in big games, so everyone can see his genius.
It’s always been his biggest failing. It probably stems from his concern that people think he is just a chequebook manager.
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And the core point that he isn’t a fecking genius, football or otherwise. He’s just a coke addled cheating hypocrite.
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And he is just that.
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What’s probably boiled his piss more than anything is Slot, a new manager coming in and winning the league with the total signing of a bloke whose played less than 90 minutes combined probably (if you ignore the cup).
Like if it had been Klopp he could have used that excuse but they’ve been utterly garbage this year. He will come again but does it get better for him than it did last year or the year before. Perhaps he should have taken a break it’s not like someone would have come in for him.
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To be fair here, he has won literally everything at this point. I don’t mind Pep as much as some others do, and I reject the “checkbook manager” label. Many many other managers have gone to clubs with effectively unlimited budgets and failed. His style of football has been highly successful everywhere he’s gone, that’s not by accident.
He’s a bit of a ghoul for excusing the blatant and obvious cheating behind the scenes of Man City, but give the Devil his due here - he’s an excellent manager and has been for the last 15+ years. Only Klopp rivals him, and you could argue that getting more out of less makes Klopp the superior manager, but the proof is in the pudding, and Pep’s pudding is the best in the business.
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Yeah, fair shout Cinnie. I think too many of us overlook Carlo - myself included. He’s never won anything in England though, so maybe that’s marks against him?
I loved to see the bald fraud so angry against everyone after the game. One of the small pleasures that day offered me. 
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Only for those of a particularly parochial bent.
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Maybe so. I’d say that for the last 10-15 years it’s been the best/toughest league in the world, with maybe the odd season here and there being a bit weaker. He was dominant in Italy during their heyday though, and in Spain for a long time. Tough call. He’s definitely in the top 3 of the last 15-20 years though.
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Maybe with Pep and his wife separating last season, it has upset the balance he had become accustomed to in his life… I’m sure better men than him have struggled to remain focused on the job at hand after such upheaval… For all we know, he will never win another trophy in the UK… especially now there is a new ‘Baldy’ on the block :0)
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Isn’t that kind of missing the point? The point is that having a blank cheque means you effectively have no excuse for failure. However, he has never attempted to start somewhere where he wasn’t at the top and didn’t have the money to spend. Can he do what Nuno has done? Could he take a Villareal or Sevilla and make them champions? Could he win the league with Leverkusen?
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