Finally?
He's been an important player all the time he's been at the club.
Remember his winner vs United in the 1-0 Derby in 2012 and his inspirational leadership for the most successful period of the club's existence.
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He's been an important player all the time he's been at the club.
Remember his winner vs United in the 1-0 Derby in 2012 and his inspirational leadership for the most successful period of the club's existence.
I was thinking of his first couple of seasons before they won the title, but yeah he's been there for them.
It was a pragmatic performance. I don't understand why people relate pragmatism to negativity. The game management was top notch. Look at their last 4 wins in PL, 1-0, 1-0 , 2-0, 1-0. Just don't go crazy and drop points. Every top team does that. We under sir alex did that, chelsea under jose did that, arsenals invincible under Wenger did that. Effective game management.
I hope they realize they still have to win next weekend, ffs. Pep don't be a fool now.
Neville and Carragher at the Etihad
Might wanna write them just in case.
As a Villa fan you have no appreciation of the rivalry between Utd & Liverpool. I do admit it must seem very strange to many fans. Liverpool's main rivals should be Everton & our's City. I don't know if this kind of situation exists in any other leagues where a derby game isn't the biggest of your season.
We worked incredibly hard & went through many high's & low's to eventually become the most successful team in Britain. As a club we are comparable to Bob Beamon & Jack Nicklaus. We have created a record that we do not want any team to break. Teams may do things we didn't, such as Liverpool's 5 European Cups, Arsenal's invincible season. When all is said & done though we are still alone at the top of the hill looking down rather than joining everyone else looking up.
A brutal & oppressive regime have bought our neighbours. They have brought there corrupt practices into the league & are carrying out a concerted campaign to whitewash the atrocities they are committing. I will admit i feel slightly ashamed to support City just so Utd can stay at the top of the pile. Any support of City is condoning the activities of their owners.
Because that's how it's used? If you're not using that way then fair enough, but I don't see this run of games as Pep compromising his principles, he's always going for the win, even as his team has fatigued over this stretch.
Also, not enough is made of City's defensive record over the last 13 games. Only 3 goals conceded. We all saw the wankery over Liverpool's similar record earlier on in the season.
I get it that there are some human rights violations of migrant workers in the UAE, but you are confusing the Saudis for the City owners. The UAE, particularly Abu Dhabi and Dubai, is by no means a "brutal and oppressive regime". It is one of the most relaxed and modern countries in the Middle East, and tries to adopt the Western culture more than it's neighbours.
It's not that uncommon, and there's not a huge geographical divide between Manchester and Liverpool. Off the top of my head I can think of Real Madrid v Barcelona, Inter v Juventus, PSG v Marseille, Bayern v Dortmund, Porto v Benfica. At the other end of the scale you've then got the weird thing between Brighton and Palace too where they seem to be each other's biggest rivals.
And that's sad if people just blindly equate Pragmatism = negative football. Every top team who have won trophies have played pragmatic football at some point. Also, it doesn't mean you compromise your principle, no. It means you adapt and evolve.
Yes, city have been brilliant defensively. Especially, if you compare how well pep has made them since his first season. Just adding top players won't solve everything, they have to be trained and Pep has done that.
I can assure you that none of the fans I know think that we've won it yet and I'm sure that Pep will be drilling this same message into into the players.
It could still go all wrong (depending on your point of view). As a fan of 40 years plus, I still think 'Typical City' may appear at some point.
Good, good.
It’s basically a disney treble. It’s great but in comparison to the proper treble it’s pg.
Get the feck in. 14 wins in a row. All I can say to Jurgen is "boom". Hard luck to the sounder Liverpool supporters on here, great season.
Gonna be weird now we've denied Liverpool not all cheering on the same team, we'll be united in our cheering of Spurs I suppose.
Gonna be weird now we've denied Liverpool not all cheering on the same team, we'll be united in our cheering of Spurs I suppose.
Congrats mate. You guys deserved the title and Guardiola’s a bloody genius.
Not sure we’ll manage to get over 90 points next season so I’ll have to hope there’s a drop off from your lot.
Great season for us, a little bit of a dampner on it because another team will win the champions league but if we can get our hands on the FA cup will have been an incredible season.
Congratulations. Great club great mgr. the best that’s ever been in the PL era. Great season, winning the league and owning your neighbors for years to come. I’m sure that CL trophy is around the corner.
You'll get over 90 points. I'd expect it to be a close one again, can't see either team do the crazy stuff we did this season. I wouldn't say either deserved to win or either deserved to lose in fairness. Could have went either way. Literally an inch here or an inch there could that swung it.
Congrats, amazing league form and truly deserved. If only we could say ok now Pep you can leave but I think it's gonna be either City 3 in a row or Liverpool finally winning it.
Very close season, I wasn't expecting Liverpool to improve as much as they did and It'll be interesting to see how they develop next year. I think there're much more obvious places for improvement for them than us. The league will always be the standard for me and Guardiola's football definitely dominates there but theres always gonna be a question mark till he picks up a CL. Hopefully he'll hang around till then and keep impressing us in the league!
congrats. great job at beating this Liverpool side with De Bruyne and Mendy basically out for whole season.
Think that second half of the season was probably the best ever in the big leagues (with 38 games anyway). City won 54 from 57 possible pts.
Also City 17-19 won more points than Barca 09-11: 198 vs 195.
Also City 17-19 won more points than Barca 09-11: 198 vs 195.
Mendy in the last 18 months.
1 World Cup, 2 Premier Leagues, 2 League Cups. He's played about 10 games combined in all competitions. Most decorated mascot in history.
1 World Cup, 2 Premier Leagues, 2 League Cups. He's played about 10 games combined in all competitions. Most decorated mascot in history.
Best English team at domestic level I’ve seen. Add a CL and another title and they’ll be the greatest English team ever.
Not a bad life is it?
In all seriousness I thought he looked really good when he first joined for us, I hope he gets better if only so we dont end up having to buy a new LB.
Didn't Man. City play him defensive midfield for his first season and then De Jong came in (also from Hamburg) and he moved back to CB afterwards.
14 wins in a row at the business end of the season, including wins against Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal and ourselves. With zero room for error they certainly earned the title the hard way.
Saying congratulations to them would be sickening after the shite season we've had but I will say I appreciate that they put in the hard work to defend the league from Liverpool. A bit like the Russians helping stop Hitler, you don't have to like everything they did to see that it was important.
Saying congratulations to them would be sickening after the shite season we've had but I will say I appreciate that they put in the hard work to defend the league from Liverpool. A bit like the Russians helping stop Hitler, you don't have to like everything they did to see that it was important.
Must be a sickener for everyone at City to see Spurs v Liverpool in the final. Without that VAR offside, the quad would’ve been yours imo.
We'd probably have a shot at the quad, but it was the correct call. Laporte absolutely shitting himself for 15 minutes that day is why we are out. We probably deserved to win but Laporte's 15 minutes and Pep getting it wrong at WHL are the reasons we're out and we can have no complaints imho. VAR did exactly what it was implemented for.
That comparison is absolutely disgraceful. Hitler was nowhere near as annoying as Liverpool fans.
True. I generally hate VAR for marginal offsides anyway but it’s the same rules for everyone so I guess City can’t have too many complaints.
Fair play to the BBC journalist Nathalie Pirks who, when reporting on City's win threw in the fact that they are being by investigated by UEFA under financial fair play.
The VAR offside wasnt the problem so much as Laporte falling asleep for 10 minutes in the first half, can't really blame VAR for making the game fair. Its going to be a bit frustrating hearing Tottenham/Spurs fans claiming they're better than us but I'm sure we'll manage.
incredible trophy stats. And congrats for winning the League. What an impressive League season.Congrats to City! Please make sure you keep Pep...don't want him anywhere near Juve...they'd dominate Serie A even more convincingly which I didn't think was possible!
In all seriousness though, City/Pep have set the marker of the best title winning team in PL history. 198 points in the past 2 seasons is insane. The best team in the history of the Premier League.
Special mention to Liverpool, to push them so close and end of 97 points is still a great achievement and am routing for them to get number 6, they'd have the most European Cups/Champions League trophies after Real and AC Milan...kind of mad they'd surpass Bayern and Barca.
In all seriousness though, City/Pep have set the marker of the best title winning team in PL history. 198 points in the past 2 seasons is insane. The best team in the history of the Premier League.
Special mention to Liverpool, to push them so close and end of 97 points is still a great achievement and am routing for them to get number 6, they'd have the most European Cups/Champions League trophies after Real and AC Milan...kind of mad they'd surpass Bayern and Barca.
100 and 98 points in 2 consecutive seasons.
Frightening consistency and magnificent achievement.
Frightening consistency and magnificent achievement.
But I was told Pep is a fraud of a manager. Now he's won back to back titles.