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Under both managers, our defence just made constant individual mistakes over and over and over again. Every single one of them. Even with looking more "solid" (using that term very very very very loosely) under Garde as a defensive unit. No idea if FatSam would have made our defenders be less st00pid individually. I remember kaboul making constant mistakes before he arrived, was he still making a ton under Sam? Only so much of sunderland i could watch so i dont know

pure hyperbole. Of course everton arnt going down lol

easy to say that when youre not being offered more cash. Also has a chance to play with better players and better coaches which could improve you as a player and keep you at the euros...

No, what they will be doing is looking at the performance and not the result. See how they should have won it, were the better side, One of the only teams who opened Atletico up. And realise two individual basic defending mistakes and muller missing a pen is NOT peps fault. Unless he told cb's to show players inside + onto their stronger foot + decide to bomb forward after losing the ball to leave a shit ton of space in behind + told muller to kick it at the keeper. @ zatman jfc, he had one bad semi-final which he admitted he got it all horribly wrong. I see some shocking displays under fergie at united, doesnt mean hes not the greatest manager of all time. Losing to barca away and beating them at home isnt really that bad is it. With Quite a few of your decent players injured

i personally didnt rate delph all that much over his time here. But there was a 6 month-1year period where he was clearly one of our best players towards the end. He was pretty awful in final third over all the years though. But the drive and getting out of tight spaces was pretty important

your criteria of progressing under pep all comes to aggregate of 3 two-legged ties against the best teams in the world (only looking at direct results). You dont think thats way too small of a sample size?

Southampton. A lot of teams worse than them in the league. If pep wants to play subpar players agaisnt southampton then good luck to him. But doubt that will happen too much

Is Kante passing really that bad? I stopped following prem football seriously for couple of months but LcFc played way too direct from my memory to tell if he can make it in smaller spaces. It's ok if his passing isn't brilliant either as long as DLP is next to him. So wouldn't be too bad with modric/kroos He just can't move to a team like city with their current squad

Unless I'm missing someone super obvious. ..but unless they're prepared to throw 60/70+ mil at Tottenham English players....they can't really sell Delph. Would be pointless selling him and bringing another subpar English player into the squad. He's good enough to allow game management for other players so they can play the more important games

Didnt heynckes have the enjoyment of having ribery+robben in their prime not getting injured all the time? (you have to tell me) Think its pretty silly to just compare Pep vs heynckes given theres tons of variables which change

How has he not? Hes dominated german football. And got to the semi-final 3 years in a row. You do realise how high-variance tournaments are right? You know its a problem of your criteria of failure/living up to hype is winning the champs league when you can play scrubs all the way to the final, win the competition, be considered as a huge success...or you can keep running into the best teams in the world along the way, fall short in a high variance tourny towards the end and be considered a failure. Direct Results in short term get attributed way too much towards the managers by fans From the SF's...one of them was his fault. The other two was just variance. If someone scoring a penalty (muller) would stop you having this discussion right now, i think its time rethink your opinion Yeh they would be slightly dissapointed in not winning a CL...but they will also look at it a bit deeper than just results to realise why they havent won, and be ok with it.

The personal dislike for pep in this post is funny. Every win he has you make excuse for them winning. Everyone loss is legit loss against them without even thinking of reasoning why they lost Pep at BM and champs league isnt a failure really. The only one which was bad was real.madrid which he openly admitted he personally **** up in. BM had redic number of injuries during the game against barca and that was always going to be really really tough to win. Pretty hard to blame pep for losing against Barca without full squad And he cant really be blamed for loss of Atletico. Two defenders doing 12 year old defending mistakes resulting in goals (both mistakes were really bad that you shouldn't expect top level defenders to make) and muller missing a pen. None of that is down to pep and its personal mistakes which made them lose this tie. But yeh, like paulC said, they did lack a bit of killer instinct at times. Add in their two main attackers coming out of their prime who were top 3 in their positions and really difficult to replace. It really isnt that bad Great tie this semi-final was

lol

anddddddddd another post lapal shys away from fully answering. Pretty sure this is like 5th/6th time but ill give semi serious reply to yours hoping one day you would actually give some semi-discussion... darren bent had over 0.5gpg record at sunderland...why didnt he move to a top 4 team..Given you appear to just care about goals scored...

you keep getting mention because you keep quoting posts...then quickly shy away after a response...Then keep liking posts who are directly response to me Im sorry but you have to be semi-retard to think benteke would ever work in arsenal system...The reasons why theyre failing this year is actually because injuries (to key players) + wenger failing to implement a fully effective system which benteke fail in so much. I I also think you know absolute shit. Which is pretty obvious by your posts. Ive gave many reasons why benteke would be awful in arsenal. You appear to give 0 reasons why he would work. But apparently dicussion isnt to be had on this forum

you apparently know how quoting a post from one month ago...So come on.. Realistic names please....Also please give form to see if they ever gone 14 league goals without a goal + how they fit into system because im very interested in this (he has been shite recently...Im pretty sure ive mentioned that a lot before..But hindsight is a bit silly )

thats not what im asking is it? Scholes has one of the best CM in british history. He isnt producing every CM playmaker who come through united ranks out there is he...Think harder.

Actually yes...was young always destined to be top midfielder whoever waS coaching him at that stage of his career or was it because he had the coaching of specifically a winger coach ....definition of narratives if it's just "he was coach at time". ..if you struggle understanding that then ..wow

always thought he was stupid af and that i never thought he deserved to start games because situation we was in. But not starting/playing him more is kind of criminal as soon as were confirmed were relegated. Sinclair wont improve as a player given age etc etc...Adama might...Surely the way to make him improve is to give him gametime and just spend time going over his games over the last few games that is left showing him where he makes mistakes, and then spending preseason correcting a lot of it

genuinely wondering...any proof of this? ill be interested to read what he did etc etc

underrated or overrated....all depends what the last game was like...

because evaluation changes? ill admit..i put about 1 minute thought into that post..so probably has a ton of holes in it

gambling

nice joke for the 2nd time ..i await it for the 3rd time when it makes 0 sense again...

i do apologise for using every day terms of my job which becomes the norm to me on a casual forum. Sorry lapel. You still understood and still decided to do a weird comment...which is kind of odd..but whatever. Have fun still posting about me xx