It's very sad that no matter how much Manchester City spend they just cannot buy themselves into the ranks of Europe's elite clubs.
Will Pep stay and try again next year or will he call time?
Pep to "process" the failure at his exciting "project" after blowing two goals at the death:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61325080
It would be very sad if there is an negative psychological effect from this and they land up blowing the league as well...
I think it depends on whether they win the Prem.
shareI love seeing Manchester Shitty fail. Pep is gone after this next year because his contract is up. He said he wanted to manage an international team.
shareI always describe Pep as "unproven" because I don't really know if he's any good as a manager.
I know that he wears lovely jumpers and keeps his bald head well groomed but what I don't know is whether he would ever be capable of achieving what Klopp for example has done with Mainz, Dortmund & Liverpool, i.e. take underachieving sides and push them to the best they can be.
Pep on the other hand has two CLs, having inherited the greatest Barcelona squad ever seen probably, and failed and failed again to deliver with pretty much unlimited resources...
I think if he fails to win the PL as well this season, bailing out and taking an international side would probably be the best option for him to protect his "brand".
This is why I think Mourinho is better than him. Winning Champions League with Porto is no easy task. Pep is always managing teams that keep spending. They've spent more money than any other Premier League team since he's taken over. Now they are getting Haaland during the offseason. How much more does he need?
shareI agree re Mourinho.
Remember how he got laughed at for saying finishing second with United was one of his greatest achievements? Well now the possibility of Man Utd finishing second again is the thing worth laughing at...
Manchester City failed to win the Champions League...
So have Barcelona, Bayner, United, Chelsea, Benfica, Villarreal, Inter, Juventus, Dortmund...
City is always close to winning, there's no way to guarantee a victory.
Eh? All these teams asides from Villarreal have won the CL 🤔...
shareI thought you were talking about what has happened this season?
"Have failed to win once again", seems to hint you are being negative to the fact they lost it this year.
mmm, I don't know Towlie - I'd have thought the "once again" part would have made it clear I was talking about more than just this year...
shareYou basically said "as it happened in the past, this year they also didn't win".
Regardless, City is always close to winning, there's no way to hire a manager that guarantees a Champions League victory... No one can ensure this 100%.
Guardiola is the most consistent, there's a reason he is always in the top 2 in his league and usually 1st place.
Even Liverpool has been going through 4th place, 3rd place...
To win the Champions League you always need a fair amount of luck and inspiration.
Sorry Towlie, I just don't understand you...
I said "Have failed to win the Champions League once again". I'm not sure what your paraphrasing is meant to meant, but as in the past, as in this year, they have failed again. They have never won the CL.
I guess maybe you're trying to make a joke but I just don't get it. It's pretty clear, Man City have failed this year just as they have in every other year Pep has tried to bring them CL success.
Their count of CL wins = 0 (Zero).
When you say "M. Night Shyamalan makes a bomb movie once again", you are mainly initiating a discussion on the movie that has just failed. You are not initiating a discussion on The Happening that has failed 14 years ago. Even though he has had success with The Sixth Sense in the past...
When you say "City has failed to win the Champions League once again", you are mainly initiating a discussion on the failure they just had. We could easily have said "Barcelona have failed to win the Champions League once again", as they have won their last champions league in 2015 and have failed to win in all the years since then.
So again, such an opening statement seems to hint that we are discussing the current edition of the champions league, not a history of all Man City's champions league participations.
Again I think you are very deliberately being facetious.
Everyone knows Guardiola was brought in - with Man City already multiple Premier League champions - with the expressed remit of delivering the Champions League to the "project".
"Failed ... Once Again" could not possibly really be believed to be exclusively about the "current edition" unless you think the 2021-22 edition of the CL is like movie Source Code, with Guardiola stuck trying over and over again to win the "current edition" of the CL!
Of course that is a facetious response to by myself to counter your own. The Barcelona example being another showing of deliberate flippancy. The key difference being that Manchester City have NEVER / zero times won the CL.
Of course you could say "Barcelona fail again since 2015 to win the CL" because if you didn't someone would say "Hey but they won it in 2015!". With Man City there is no requirement for the year qualification because they have NEVER, ever won the tournament.
But you could say that about any team that has won the Champions League.
Bayern Munich won it in 2020 and now haven't won it for 2 years (as they have already been eliminated) so they also "once again" haven't won it.
Liverpool won in 2019 and so if they fail to win this year then that will be 3 years and so "once again" haven't won it.
Etc. Etc. Etc
Many teams have years gaps between wins. So what.
Man City will eventually win it at some point.
Buy a striker. Problem solved.
It ain't rocket science.
I think that problem has well and truly been solved!
https://moviechat.org/nm10994643/