16 Aug 2020 09:10:38
Ed001 your thoughts on pep and city getting knocked out?
They seem to have a mental block in the competition and pep set his team up all wrong by the sound of it. They should of gone and taken the game to Lyon and I think they would of probably won.
But I’m amazed pep isn’t getting more heat for this season, a league cup after their outlays should be seen as a huge failure. And by the way he’s talking he needs more changes for them to compete, maybe it’s who he is buying that’s the issue!

{Ed001's Note - Pep has always had a problem with trying to be too clever. He gets away with it, usually, in the league, as his team is so much better than the opposition. In the Champions League the teams are a much higher overall standard, so his attempts often backfire. His problem is that he is not a good tactician, he just gets players playing one tactic really well. When he tries to do something different, his team struggles every time, but Pep still insists on trying these ideas he has, no matter how many times they flop.

He won't get heat because he is Pep, beloved of the media and pundits. He should have been getting heat all season for some of the abysmal league performances his team put in. He will just try and spend his way out of it and the moment he realises it is no longer working for him, he will run away to another team, where he will once again be the superhero coming in to be hero-worshipped.}

1.) 17 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 17:48:36
I read something the other day where his main go to 11 is practically all inherited.
There is no problem with that but when you’ve spend that much you’d think there would be more of his buys involved.
Also ed001, what did you make of the second goal for Lyon, should it of been disallowed? Personally I thought it wasn’t a foul.

{Ed001's Note - his recruitment is abysmal mate. Hundreds of millions on multiple full-backs and none have been any good.

I didn't see the game and haven't seen the goals. I have little interest in European games unless Liverpool are playing. I find European competition boring personally. So I have no idea about the goals, sorry.}