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🎙️| Pep Guardiola: "I was very sad after the defeat to Real Madrid, maybe I am not good enough to lead Manchester City to the #UCL title." @marca #rmalive— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) May 6, 2022 1522639729371537409 is not a valid tweet id [emoji23][emoji23]
What is it with cules (messi, Pep, etc) and their "woe is me" pity party they always throw to mask their failures and garner blind support?
They are an awful, sanctimonious, no-balls having bunch. Nobody is talking about the awful stretch of flopping, time wasting, and provocation against Atletico. Nor the fact that they were time-wasting from the 5th minute against us - Walker's whole charade being by far the most egregious. When the Atletico players misbehave, they are disgraceful, uncouth savages. When Laporte needlessly slaps Modric across the face - crickets. But the narrative is Pep's teams play football on some different heavenly plane. Somehow, the sheer amount of refereeing pressure, fake penalties, fake red cards, diving and simulation of his Barcelona was completely swept under the rug - and we've been presented with some whole other narrative. In spite of Varane's errors, our elimination against them in 2020 hinged on a dive from Sterling and a dive from Jesus. A dive the former tried to replicate outside the box 2 days ago - as it's his specialty. I absolutely cannot stand this whole Pep thing - a plague on modern football - and the sooner ppl wake up the better.
I'm not done. I'm effing tired of the constant ridiculous praise and propaganda surrounding Pep's teams. Half the time they put you to damn sleep. Half the time they're cheating. Half the time they're losing against Europe's mid-tier teams. All the time they're getting humiliated by Europe's best. A legacy built on the fact that Rio and Vidic couldn't keep out a 5 foot 7 Messi header in a final.
He's also a hypocritical, two-faced, blood-sucking clown who crushes his players into little, obedient minions and sucks in all the praise and shine.
Salah talking about us daily. 🎙| Salah: “I believe we will win the final against Real Madrid.”— Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) May 6, 2022
I would be over the moon for us to win again and this clown somehow get injured and not even complete the game like the last time. Give him something to cry about even after he retires
I hope he does not shut up. These liverpool players have a big mouth. They talked big about revenge and were already slapped across the face last year. Where was your revenge then? Now they trot around acting like they're the second coming of Christ having beat Spurs - a club with a lesser legacy in football than 18 year old Rodrygo.
It’s exactly as you say. He’s coming out being self critical so that fans will say no Pep it’s not your fault, you’re plenty good enough, we love you, we just didn’t spend enough billions. I loathe this Barcelona identity. Which is why I loathe the fact the we have to tolerate mini bitch Xavi now for lord knows how many years.
Love the honesty. We all knew that once Asesnsio had his little touch no way Rodrygo has any real control of the header. But the touch actually made the header perfect. lol. Incredible that he’s so honest about it. What a good kid. We lived through the Barcelona hype/propaganda era and this sort of play would be written as a Cryuffian cross (credit @hector_br) with a laudrup flick and a 5 dimensional Messi vision body shift for a sublime header that no force in the universe could stop
It’s actually brilliant,I don’t think he should be sheepish about that. How many times have we seen a player get put off his timing by not anticipating the ball coming to him. On both goals Rodrygo trusts that the ball will arrive where he needs it to, and does his final action (whether the run or the header) with full faith in that. Also let’s laugh at Pep again. He let Aguero sign for Barca, then did Barca a favour by selling them Ferran midway through the season, then when he needs a goal and looks at his bench there is no one there. Good thinking numpty, help Barca some more next year.
When I showed my brother that comment, he made an interesting point. He said Rodrygo is talking about goal scorers instinct there similar to how you are saying it regarding the trust of the ball arriving/anticipating it. I’ve been in games here I’ve hit the ball instinctively without looking at goal as soon as the ball fell to me and it flew into the top corner. [emoji28]
One time I was playing on a small turf field (with the small goals) with a bunch of Mexican bros. I mention that because I'm 6'3" and was by quite some distance the tallest dude on the field. Also relevant: I didn't really play soccer growing up, and by the standards of the others on the field I was really, really bad. I'm playing up front, a cross comes in, I just instinctively tried to put my head on it with a twist of the neck. As it turned out: a swerving bullet header in the top corner, off the crossbar and in, of that little goal. Golazo. Guys seemed a little puzzled for the rest of the day as to why I could not replicate this effort in any way. They didn't know it was the best header of my life.
This was actually a treat to listen to from Paramount plus. He was outstanding. I get goosebumps when I replay it.
Keep going Love it. Will wait for the excuses when we win the CL and this guy goes and talks about revenge in his post match interview
At the end of the day, it's just football. Only thing i can hold against Guardiola and guys of his school (Tuchel) is them thinking football is some sort of science or major alchemy.
Seriously. Bruh, it's twenty men kicking a piece of leather. I respect people who go further and see beauty in tactics and philosophy, but to make it seem like anything else is basic or primitive is where the craziness starts. I have learnt so much from playing semi-pro soccer about self and group motivation and mentality. I think the mentalities of Zidane, Klopp and Ferguson's teams have more to admire than 1.5B for Pytaagorean d'OR pretty triangles.
Football discourse really took a turn for the moronic when the word philosophy was normalized during the Barcelona hype era by savvy media communicators and brand salesmen like Pep and boosted by the Barcelona propaganda machine. Now I hear ex footballers on TV who seem like nice people but you know don’t have the biggest intellect talking about how so and so coach doesn’t really have a philosophy or such and such club doesn’t have a philosophy. Smh. It used to be called tactics and then some self important people rebranded it and here we are. Now it’s permeated so deeply into the ecosystem, a few years ago I met a young guy at an airport and we got talking about football. He was a Liverpool fan. He was college age. And of course he had a comment to make about real Madrid that he’s not impressed by them because they don’t have a philosophy.
I would have considered saying that our 'philosophy' is simple: winning football matches and, consequently, football trophies. But I guess that's not really a discussion you'd want to have at an airport, lol. But yeah, I fully agree with you. This whole football is science, teams needing to have a philosophy etc. is quite nonsensical. That's why I liked Zidane (and Carlo now). Without dismissing the impact of tactics (of course that's a huge part of the game), they just keep things simple (tactics wise, without compromising the team substantially (with an exception here and there, e.g. recent Clasico, Chelsea last season)) and make sure their players enjoy being part of the team. At the end of the day, they are the ones that need to put in the effort and score goals. Philosophy? It got City and Bayern very far under Pep. It got Barca also very far in recent years! I'm always shaking my head when I see Pep (or Tuchel for instance) having intense discussions with his players during a game, it just doesn't help. Player performed a bad throw-in? Pep schedules an internal meeting a minute or two later. A good pass but not the optimal option? Pep will scream and immediately want to have a word with you. Walking 3 yards in front of your optimal position? Uhooh, Pep already making notes. At some point, players will be done with him. Now compare that with Carlo (who doesn't have a 'philosophy' other than winning), who involves his senior players with certain decisions, doesn't seem to have a big ego, doesn't micro-manage each play, is a beacon of calmness etc.
Lol read this dude: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-are-still-standing-manchester-city-guardiola It's hilarious. It's rational that City (serial chokers in the Champions League, led by Pep who took a treble winner and lost 5-0 to us, and 7 years and 1.5B later took City from semi-final exit to final loss) should win, dominate and entertain. The guy literally said we won our three in a row because some of our opponents froze.