Guardiola

zzzzz said:
Loves to belittle his players in public
Latest swipe is at Grealish.
By all means have a go at the lad in private but does he have to put him down like that?

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It's just a smarty pants version of Warnock's summary of Djed Spence.
"Premier League or Non League. It's up to him".
 
Never understod the fascinaton with Grealish

Good premier league player but not an elite winger by any means, his goal scoring record for a forward player who cost 100 million just shows how much you have to
pay for above average players

Add Kalvin Phillips to that list as well of overrated and overpaid players purely because they are english
 
There’s no doubt Guardiola is great but I really would love to see if he could do it at Grimsby or somewhere (as with others who’ve spent all their career managing top/rich clubs) just as a form of experiment. I think that would be fascinating to see to be honest. Can he really improve Joe Clogger?, can he adapt his philosophy to suit the level/players? Can he manage a tiny budget and wheel and deal to build his squad to reach his preferred style of play and take them Up through the leagues? And so on.
 
El Guapo said:
There’s no doubt Guardiola is great but I really would love to see if he could do it at Grimsby or somewhere (as with others who’ve spent all their career managing top/rich clubs) just as a form of experiment. I think that would be fascinating to see to be honest. Can he really improve Joe Clogger?, can he adapt his philosophy to suit the level/players? Can he manage a tiny budget and wheel and deal to build his squad to reach his preferred style of play and take them Up through the leagues? And so on.
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Impossible to know really but based on what he's done in his career it's fair to say he has generally improved players that come in and for the most part has had very few high profile failures when signing player so there's a good chance he'd do pretty well
 
BeanBeany said:
Impossible to know really but based on what he's done in his career it's fair to say he has generally improved players that come in and for the most part has had very few high profile failures when signing player so there's a good chance he'd do pretty well
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Yeah, probably, but that’s why it’d be interesting to see I think.
 
El Guapo said:
There’s no doubt Guardiola is great but I really would love to see if he could do it at Grimsby or somewhere (as with others who’ve spent all their career managing top/rich clubs) just as a form of experiment. I think that would be fascinating to see to be honest. Can he really improve Joe Clogger?, can he adapt his philosophy to suit the level/players? Can he manage a tiny budget and wheel and deal to build his squad to reach his preferred style of play and take them Up through the leagues? And so on.
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Wouldn't it be great if an elite manager took on a challenge like that just for the love of the game? Feels almost unthinkable now.

Cloughie sort of did when he took the Brighton job I guess, and it didn't really work out.
 
atypical_boro said:
Wouldn't it be great if an elite manager took on a challenge like that just for the love of the game? Feels almost unthinkable now.

Cloughie sort of did when he took the Brighton job I guess, and it didn't really work out.
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There was a documentary years ago when Malcolm Allison took on a Sunday Morning pub team. He bombed big style.
If players don't have the potential to improve the best coach in the world will only go so far withvthem.
 
zzzzz said:
There was a documentary years ago when Malcolm Allison took on a Sunday Morning pub team. He bombed big style.
If players don't have the potential to improve the best coach in the world will only go so far withvthem.
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That sounds interesting.

Where did Big Mal actually succeed though as a manager, without Mercer? Whenever I read about his career he seems to have failed everywhere he went other than his spell as City's assistant. He took Palace from the first to the third division.

Either way, his achievements, on paper, as a manager are a long way off Pep's! Though he was obviously a very good coach and did win the league with Sporting as manager.

He once watched me play when scouting for Darlington, a few of the best kids from each school were sent on this training course. He barely noticed me, and now I work in an office. pr*ck. :ROFLMAO: ;)
 
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