Precisely why I've no time for the Guardiola mythos.
Managers don’t get years now. They usually get months, and even at a club like Manchester City where a manager’s shortcomings can be masked for a while by the fact you’re rolling over far inferior opposition they only tend to last a couple of years before they hit a sticky patch of fixtures. Managers and coaches don’t develop long term strategies because why would they?Precisely why I've no time for the Guardiola mythos.
Just another Mourinho. Pisses money up the wall on superstars while developing **** all. Wins & moves on.
He basically inherited a Barca side that was already brilliant, did precisely **** all at Bayern in terms of progression in a league where Jimmy ****ing Kranky could get the job & win it by 5 points.
Same again at Man City. Spend a fortune & win a mediocre league. Woop-de-do.
Despite the fact that their teams play in contrasting ways he & Jose are peas in a pod in terms of method.
Mourinho at least proved at the beginning with Porto that he could do it the other way. Pep doesn't even have that.
Probably just me being old fashioned though. I belong to an era where great & good managers built an identity at clubs over a period of years with a philosophy, a plan, some shrewd transfer dealings & a dose of style. I couldn't really give 2 shits if Man City go on to dominate Europe for a ****ing decade. It'll just be a case of getting what they ordered.
I agree with all of that. I just don't like it. & I'm not going to accept that winning trophies because you spent half a billion quid on every good player in the world makes you some sort of managerial genius. Which more or less every cock sucking pundit wants me to believe about Guardiola.Managers don’t get years now. They usually get months, and even at a club like Manchester City where a manager’s shortcomings can be masked for a while by the fact you’re rolling over far inferior opposition they only tend to last a couple of years before they hit a sticky patch of fixtures. Managers and coaches don’t develop long term strategies because why would they?
I agree with all of that. I just don't like it. & I'm not going to accept that winning trophies because you spent half a billion quid on every good player in the world makes you some sort of managerial genius. Which more or less every cock sucking pundit wants me to believe about Guardiola.
For a fair few years, you'd say WBA, Southampton and Stoke, were all in that comfort zone.Serious question, though - Where do you go from here?
The reality is that our view is a bit warped by what happened the season before last.
Having said that, in reality there doesn’t look like there will be too much change for the current “big 6”, other than a bit of movement amongst themselves.
Outside of those 6, there will be teams fighting relegation and teams sitting in relative security, such as ourselves, currently.
What is a realistic expectation of us? Are we not at the exact level? I’m not saying I like it, or that we should be happy where we are, I’m just asking the question.
We may be complete shite at the moment, but at last we're not Arsenal
This is hilarious
If only we could capitalise, 7th might still be on
Although I would of course like us to overtake Burnley for 7th, there is a bit of me that thinks wouldn't it be great if they did what we should have done, and caught Arsenal.When we were doing well in January I did joke that we could catch Arsenal and get 6th. Annoyingly that could well have been the case if we’d turned up in the last four matches.
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Leicester | 46 | 97 |
2 | Ipswich | 46 | 96 |
3 | Leeds Utd | 46 | 90 |
4 | Southampton | 46 | 87 |
5 | West Brom | 46 | 75 |
6 | Norwich City | 46 | 73 |
7 | Hull City | 46 | 70 |
8 | Middlesbro | 46 | 69 |
9 | Coventry City | 46 | 64 |
10 | Preston | 46 | 63 |
11 | Bristol City | 46 | 62 |
12 | Cardiff City | 46 | 62 |
13 | Millwall | 46 | 59 |
14 | Swansea City | 46 | 57 |
15 | Watford | 46 | 56 |
16 | Sunderland | 46 | 56 |
17 | Stoke City | 46 | 56 |
18 | QPR | 46 | 56 |
19 | Blackburn | 46 | 53 |
20 | Sheffield W | 46 | 53 |
21 | Plymouth | 46 | 51 |
22 | Birmingham | 46 | 50 |
23 | Huddersfield | 46 | 45 |
24 | Rotherham Utd | 46 | 27 |