Official: Pellegrini to leave/ Pep to join Man City

I have seen this press conference on German Sky and it's still "impressive" how much Guardiola seems to suffer when he has any contact with journalists. The guy can be charming, he is very smart and on good days he is a bit funny as well... but most of the time he is just lamenting on missing respect, wrong questions, bad rumours, etc.

I mean, he is of course right. Football journalism is journalism from hell. But I just wonder if he really hates the german journalism that much... how will he survive the english media, which is without a doubt the epitome of human Evil.

Maybe this will be the vital fight after the first four months of media-honeymoon: Pep against the media.
 
I have a feeling Guardiola doesn't like people in general. Obviously it's easy to hate the media because they do a lot to be annoying.

I think the real reason why he always leaves clubs after a few years is that after a while he can't stand his own players. I could be wrong for sure.
 
The old git looked bewildered today.

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Kant-ona said:
I have seen this press conference on German Sky and it's still "impressive" how much Guardiola seems to suffer when he has any contact with journalists. The guy can be charming, he is very smart and on good days he is a bit funny as well... but most of the time he is just lamenting on missing respect, wrong questions, bad rumours, etc.

I mean, he is of course right. Football journalism is journalism from hell. But I just wonder if he really hates the german journalism that much... how will he survive the english media, which is without a doubt the epitome of human Evil.

Maybe this will be the vital fight after the first four months of media-honeymoon: Pep against the media.
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:lol:

But seriously, He's gonna be wound up by the English media - no question about that.
 
Glad Pellegrini gets a trophy at least on his way out. Decent bloke and deserves it.
 
Its staggering how bad a job Pellegrini has done at City when you consider everything. Given their squad they've been awful for the best part of 2 years.
 
Announcing a new manager mid season and announcing you're joining a new club midway through the season is a cnutish thing to do from both Guardiola and City.
 
Lost to Leicester, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool, United. Drawn vs Norwich.

4-2-5 since the change was announced. Looks like Pellegrini couldn't be bothered anymore.
 
Be interesting to see Pellegrinis approach to the Bournemouth game, with PSG a few days later will he rest players considering CL qualification for next year is of no importance to him?

I thought him bringing on Bony instead of Iheanacho was stupid. At this stage of the season I think after today he's now taken over from LVG as the worse performing manager in the league this season.
The fact they cannot beat the better sides shows he lacks the tactical edge needed in games where your players abilities don't completely dwarf the oppositions.
A shame for him they can't face Villa at home every week.
 
Before they announced Guardiola on 1st February:

League win percentage: 57.8%

After they announce Guardiola on 1st February:

League win percentage: 36.3%
 
Samid said:
Lost to Leicester, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool, United. Drawn vs Norwich.

4-2-5 since the change was announced. Looks like Pellegrini couldn't be bothered anymore.
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They've been absolutely appalling before that. They have been for most of his reign

They won their first 5 games of the season. They've won 10 more in the 25 since then.
 
100 said:
Announcing a new manager mid season and announcing you're joining a new club midway through the season is a cnutish thing to do from both Guardiola and City.
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Was it not Bayern who broke the news first?
 
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Samid said:
Lost to Leicester, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool, United. Drawn vs Norwich.

4-2-5 since the change was announced. Looks like Pellegrini couldn't be bothered anymore.
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Ever been made redundant? As professional as I am, I was made redundant after cost cutting and did my job till then end, even though I walked away with 1.5 years salary, the little efforts you used to make you just don't do.

For us as football fans,these guys have the ultimate job, but the simple fact is your employers don't want you, hence it's really hard to give your all.

Completely expected their form to change after the announcement to be honest.
 
DrunkenBeaver said:
Before they announced Guardiola on 1st February:

League win percentage: 57.8%

After they announce Guardiola on 1st February:

League win percentage: 36.3%
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And?

Heynekes didn't have any problems.

It's not just the manager. Man City since 2011 have wasted a lot of money.
 
Bojan11 said:
And?

Heynekes didn't have any problems.

It's not just the manager. Man City since 2011 have wasted a lot of money.
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Heynckes was retiring to be fair. Pellegirini was in the middle of a quadruple and had just signed a contract extension in the summer. Heynckes would have had more to play for to go out in a blaze of glory for his retirement. while pelle probably felt hard done by and depressed he wasnt given a chance
 
Bojan11 said:
And?

Heynekes didn't have any problems.

It's not just the manager. Man City since 2011 have wasted a lot of money.
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Such a rubbish example. As @ChaddyP just said, Heynckes was 68 and didn't have a contract beyond that year and was widely expected to retire anyway and indeed did in the summer. To compare that to a manager being told he's going midway through a season when he's just 6 months into a two year extension is nonsense.
 
I'm not even sure the Guardiola announcement has had that much of an impact. It's probably been there a little bit, but in a game like today I don't think their problem was a lack of desire due to the managerial change...players did care, like Toure and Aguero. The problem was that they're just very, very poor at the back without Kompany, who's ridiculously injury prone, and they are completely incapable of winning against the top 5/6 teams...a problem they were having from before the announcement too.

They're in much poorer form than they should be, but I do think Guardiola's going to have to do a lot of work to improve them when he comes in, partly at the back, but also in forward positions where they could arguably do with more depth due to Aguero's injury problems.
 
NinjaFletch said:
They've been absolutely appalling before that. They have been for most of his reign

They won their first 5 games of the season. They've won 10 more in the 25 since then.
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Sure they weren't playing well, but they were still going strong in all competitions. 2nd in the league (3 points behind Leicester), won CL group, final of the league cup, 6th round of FA Cup. All of a sudden it's 15 points behind (game in hand though), hammered in the FA Cup and on current form will struggle to beat PSG and make top 4. Their season has basically stagnated since the change was announced.

Agree that his reign as a whole has been shocking.
 
Samid said:
Sure they weren't playing well, but they were still going strong in all competitions. 2nd in the league (3 points behind Leicester), won CL group, final of the league cup, 6th round of FA Cup. All of a sudden it's 15 points behind (game in hand though), hammered in the FA Cup and on current form will struggle to beat PSG and make top 4. Their season has basically stagnated since the change was announced.

Agree that his reign as a whole has been shocking.
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I think they might actually have improved slightly if you compare their form after the first - say 10 gams of the season (won 7) and their run since it was announced (won 4) then that means in the 11 other games they won a grand total of 2 games. Shocking run.
 
Are there actually any other non-international manager examples outside of Heynecks?

As in genuinely being forced out and finishing a season, not deciding it's time to leave and replacement not announced but finishing the season off anyway(like Klopp or many retirements).

PS, any update on this bonkers image

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Reliance on him is diabolical considering they have 2 £30mil+ CB's, played them well into spending that
 
I kinda hope hes sabotaging their premier league position and just focusing on CL.
IF they win CL ,great hes got a trophy. If not, feck it, hes not here next season.
 
How I would feel if I were Pellegrini:

So, hardly any fans decided to stay behind at my farewell speech. And the club I have delivered a PL title to and a Champions league semi-final decided to announce my replacement prematurely. You know what, I'm going to have the last laugh and make sure my players are about as motivated as a piece of dog shit and get beat off Swansea. No CL football for you pep.Im over 20 years your senior and have significantly more hair.
 
Like I said in another thread, Van Gaal can now claim again he's done a stellar job at laying the foundations for Guardiola.
 
Might be better for a new thread. Would be pleasantly surprised if they were banned, but even if they were it wouldn't come into force this summer anyway.
 
Blackwidow said:
No talk about this?

http://www.gazzettaworld.com/news/transfer-market/manchester-city-transfer-ban/

Manchester City could be hit with transfer ban
The English giants could be in hot water if they are found guilty of purchasing a player under the legal transfer age, putting their rebuilding under Pep Guardiola at risk
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Given the state of their squad that could ruin Guardiola's first season. But as Damien said it probably won't come to anything.
 
Would be great news, but it's a shame it wouldn't come into effect this summer anyway, as Pep has quite the rebuilding job on his hands.
 
Blackwidow said:
No talk about this?

http://www.gazzettaworld.com/news/transfer-market/manchester-city-transfer-ban/

Manchester City could be hit with transfer ban
The English giants could be in hot water if they are found guilty of purchasing a player under the legal transfer age, putting their rebuilding under Pep Guardiola at risk
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Posted it in the reserves thread. They also have a couple of Spanish players who joined before 16 like Brahim Diaz. JB said about Diaz "as far as I know even though the transfer was agreed a few years ago he only properly joined when he turned 16 last summer, before that he was only playing for them in friendlies as a trialist." So I guess as long as Beerman wasn't playing in official matches then it might be alright. He only made is u18 debut a week or so ago, think he'd been waiting for international clearance. No idea how it will turn out and City are denying it so we'll have to wait and see.
 
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