1. to the man for wanting to take a provincial club with limited financial resources to the top of the English game. 2. We will finally get to see how someone steeped in Barcelona tikki-takka cuts it on a wet winter wednesday night against a Pulis team.
He really does like a challenge doesn't he. Third club in a row he has managed that have limited resources and have no history of success.
"He really does like a challenge doesn't he." He does indeed. Especially as he knows he'll get 3 seasons max to break their bi-annual PL winning or progress further than Spurs did (to date) in the CL. Or perhaps he'll get more leeway as his surname does not end in "ini" . <scientific>
I think Guardiola was incredibly lucky to come into managment and take over one of the best squads ever assembled in club football, had he been given the job at another time he probably wouldn't have lasted a season let alone won anything. The only way Pep Guardiola or Mourinho would ever get my respect (not that they care) is if they went to a mid table team on an average budget and won a league or took that team into Europe, going to the top sides with the biggest budgets is not the sign of a great manager IMO.
And then he was lucky enough to get the top 1 job in Germany. And now he has stumbled into the money pit that is City. Like I said...I could do his job.
I wonder how much he'll spend in the summer? Will it matter what Pellegrini does in the meantime? He took over Bayern after Heynckes won everything and battered everyone in sight, then he made them a little bit worse. Having to follow up another successful manager might actually put him under a bit of pressure, for once.
"Having to follow up another successful manager might actually put him under a bit of pressure, for once." So you want Pellegrini to do a PL/CL double then to induce a Pep-tic ulcer in his successor ??
Unless they're actually up against us at the end of the season, of course. Seeing City succeed in Europe would be quite funny, given the amount of **** that they've got about their performances.
makes you feel for the managers of the likes of York and Dagenham,doesn't it? but their fans still stick with them..........
"Hopefully he'll distract the media from their insufferable crush on Klopp, if nothing else." Nope. Because (as always) ... <next year is our year>
Is he though? I'll reserve judgement on that until he actually does something of merit that makes people sit up in surprise. He is a good manager. He has kept some big ego's in check but he has been practically coasting at Bayern Munich. Managers like Eddie Howe or even the likes of Rowett at Birmingham who has taken a club in free-fall, haemorrhaging money and stabilised them and heading back in the right direction or O'Driscoll at Walsall, an unfashionable club who get about 5,000 attendance for a home game but still punch above their weight. Basically, there are very few excellent managers around and success for any of the above can be very fleeting if they move to another club. Pep has yet to be tested in my book. Next year will be an examination but still a test he has sat many times before and nothing different.
I really wonder what this will do to City's form this year. They have not been that consistent all year and if this distracts a few of them (Yaya as Deedub says above for example) then they could fall away. Who is there to stop Arsenal then? Us or Leicester? I worry that Arsenal are being handed the title on a plate. Would be funny mind if City fell away so badly that a CL place is in doubt. Let's see Pep in Outer *****lia in his first year.
