I'd say yes as it's totally one club biased and just full of whining. At least soccer Saturday gives a few scores and stuff but i dont watch that much either bar free check of scores if I was flicking around. I'd just Google the scores really. I don't need a total twat shouting at the tv to give me free coverage.
So what your saying is, if you spend more money than the rest of the league combined, you'll win more titles. Who'd have thought it.
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If you’re only interested in your own team isn’t that better? You get to hear what’s happening in the game your team is playing in rather than hearing about some Scottish league game that don’t have interest in? If there wasn’t a market for it, it wouldn’t exist. No one forces anyone to watch anything
I find Mark Goldbridge's commentaries entertaining, but I couldn't eat a whole one. The bits where Man U **** up are brilliant.
I find pep difficult to quantify as a manager. He has had a massive effect on how the game is played, he's come up with some quite outlandish ideas that have come off. But he's had the massive advantage of buying who ever he wants to fulfil these roles and ideas. More importantly, if the new signing doesn't work out, he can be cast aside and replaced a few months later, over and over in some cases. It's all very well being hailed as a genius for playing a full back in midfield, when you can buy the perfect player for the role, but I'd like to him try it when stuck with a player that's not perfect and needs moulding
Exactly. He's cast doubt on his abilities this season by being unable to adequately compensate for the loss of key players, and once again is forced to spend big to try and turn it around. I get the idea that if you have the money you need a manager that can build a winning side by spending it, whilst less well-off clubs resort to managers who can get the best out of what they've got. It's a different skill-set, but Pep's achievements and reputation do need to be seen in the context of the resources available to him. He's had the time, and the money, to build a future-proof and relatively injury-proof squad, and seeing it all go wrong because of a small number of injuries doesn't look like good management to me.
i pay LFCTV to get live commentry and replays and such so if i ever have to listen in then i use that. if we are not playing i will sometimes flick on soccer saturday just to see the full results but i'd never put on bbc final score as they are too slow. I would usually google up football scored on bbc more than any other as thats habit. I'd rather listen to a semi competent radio commentator plus aldo (even though he calls the move before the commentator gets to describe the action) than a dickwad screaming at a screem on his own. when we were **** and man utd were good i had no interest in wathcing man utd being good nevber mind listen to some rabid lfc fan maon about ho good utd were or lucky etc.
For me pep should have been able to a) manage his squad better. Its his fault they can't get a solid back 4 togehter as they have too many cbs and no full backs and certinaly no cover full backs b) used his academy. they have a bigger stadium than a lot of league sides. seriously telling me theres not one single young cm who might have helped? not one? c) changed his system to suit what was left. city are still getting walked through.
I think Pep is a really good manager. Mourinho couldn't keep on winning for more than two years at a time even with "cheat-mode" money enabled. How many managers have been at Manchester United with almost unlimited funds? Chelsea in recent years? Mark Hughes failed to win anything at City with same unrestricted spending. Mancini and Pellegrini only managed to win one title each. Having a whole bunch of cash doesn't guarantee you the title, you still need to know what you're doing, and Pep does. At a bare minimum I think it's safe to say, he's the best City manager since they won the oil-lottery. He's better than any United manager since Fergie left. He's better than any manager Chelsea have had since the beginning of Roman times. Obviously, he has a major advantage with that warchest, and there are probably other managers who could have achieved the same feat (or better) with the same resources... so it's hard to tell where he ranks in upper-echelon, but he's certain better than most managers. I'd suspect Shankly, Paisley, Brian Clough, Matt Busby, Bobby Robson, Arsene Wenger, Fergie, Klopp, etc, all were better... but his funding advantage makes it hard to compare. All we can say fairly is Pep is a really good manager- just can't say "how good".
When you have nuclear weapons, you probably don't spend much time practicing your swordsmanship. Definitely Pep's season this year can only be described as a bit of a flop and City would be right to be disappointed. One bad season after many good ones though. I do wonder how much the trial has been on the minds of the coaches and players though and if that has had any significant impact.
Not really a fair metaphor, as the disparities don't match. More a case of him not having built up a sufficient arsenal to cope with a couple of duds, despite having both the time and the means. No-one is suggesting he should build a skyscraper with sticks, but his second string were hardly mugs. He has little excuse for that, imo, and if he brings it round by spending big it only confirms my initial point.
