Football 2024-25. Pep’s last season?

He’ll be wondering whether the kiss of death managerial appointment is worth the Agro

But more importantly he’ll  have his agent negotiating his pay off for when he’s sacked in 18 months time for finishing 8th when he should have won the champions league, having spent 600 million on players.

The managerial merry-go-round of doom continues.

You never know though. He might come to his senses and sack it off and we end up with Big Sam. The ineptitude of the club ownership is now so total, that could actually happen and nobody would be surprised

**** it! Give it to Ruud. On the back of one half-decent performance. Like Ole, at least he gets it. We all love him and it’d be entertaining.

Well looks like Utd can win – just need to play Leicester’s reserves.

Looks like Man City are the latest team in trouble with injuries. It is getting silly when even the richest club don’t have the players to fill a bench.

Pep has always preferred a small squad (despite what the media say about having the biggest squad) so it is at least partly on his shoulders.

But looking at how well the kids performed last night in an extremely high intensity game, I don’t have that many worries, as long as we are in touch at Christmas I think we will do just fine.

Couldn’t everyone just borrow some players from Chelsea?

Was that picture taken from the moon?

MSP

But looking at how well the kids performed last night in an extremely high intensity game, I don’t have that many worries, as long as we are in touch at Christmas I think we will do just fine.

I just read city average player age last night was 26, spurs was 23.

So it’s confirmed – from Monday 11th November – how long will this one last?

It seems a similar appointment to ETH in some ways. Done well in a smaller league, developed young players, attacking football etc. Unlike ETH this guy seems to have a bit of charisma so may inspire the players more.

That Liverpool and West Ham had a look and decided against him is interesting. Rumours are Liverpool were concerned he’s too wedded to three at the back and it’s hard to see many of the United squad adapting to this. I can see Martinez as left centre back of three, Dalot right wing back, Rashford/Garnacho left sided attacker, Hojlund striker, Mainoo and Ugarte centre mid. Wondering where Bruno will play? Doubt he’ll have a massive budget either for new players.

The graveyard of reputations.

 Doubt he’ll have a massive budget either for new players.

That was probably a large factor in his appointment. At Sporting he had little cash and kept losing good players to bigger clubs, so he knows how to operate on a small budget with diminishing resources.

It’ll be interesting to see if he’s flexible enough to change his style of play to suit the players he has.

If he lines them up how he wants from his first game in charge I can see Utd getting a few hidings. This weekend with RVN managing against Chelsea we’ll get a better idea of how bad these players might be

I’m off to Hampden today with my binoculars to see if Jimmys juggernaut can rollover Brendans Bhoys. It’s a good time to be a Dandy and I would love it if we can do the double or the ugly sisters this week.

It’ll be interesting to see if he’s flexible enough to change his style of play to suit the players he has

After TH it’d just be a novelty to see any ‘style’ of play at all and for the players to have at least a rough idea of what it is they’re meant to be doing

Man City’s version of an injury crisis means a bench including Doku, De Bruyne, Savinho, Lewis,  and Ortega. Hard times.

Judging at the first half performance, which is as bad as I can remember in the Pep era, there are a few players on the pitch who probably aren’t fit to be, so the bench must be in even worse shape.

Oh FFS!

Another lead squandered by Ipswich.

Forest up to third? Blimey! Chris Wood is banging them in for fun

Oh FFS!

Another lead squandered by Ipswich.

It does feel like the prem might be a league too far at the moment. Survival would be nice but feels like we need turn around in defence and to learn to avoid the second yellow

It does feel like the prem might be a league too far at the moment

I always felt we’d struggle to stay up, finishing 4th from bottom would be a dream result. According to the BBC we’ve lost 12 points from winning positions, saving just half of those points would have been lovely.

Really looking forward to going into an office of Forest fans on Monday.

Sorry, as a Forest fan this is strange, not since Frank Clarke have we been this high in the table irrc…

I didn’t think the City v Forest game in December could be a title decider 😉

Bar Man City the top of the premiership looks like division 1 circa 1979. Forest!

Just watching MOTD. What a performance by Bournemouth!  A thoroughly deserved win against City. If it hadn’t been for Ederson making a few critical saves, that scoreline could have been even worse for Pep

I had a season ticket in the Frank Clark days, I never thought we’d see these heights again.

Hard set of fixtures in the run up to Christmas, feel Nuno has some points to prove.

Bar Man City the top of the premiership looks like division 1 circa 1979. Forest!

Except in 1979 Ipswich would have been where Man City are.

Whatever people think of Phil Jones there is little doubt in his skill as a wordsmith: “Phil Jones just said Bruno Fernandes is ‘misinterpretated'”. He’s has now fulfilled his potential. – Someone on twitter.

I have much admiration for Phil Jones. He managed to get 9 years at United picking up 120 grand a week for playing as many games for them as I have.

He just had to sit on the bench every once in a while if absolutely everyone else was injured.

Not a bad gig.

We hear a little about failed players and how rejection affects their latter years but we hear very little of those players like Jones, who become multimillionaires for basically doing nothing. Like Trump.

Surely the easiest ‘job’ in the world is third choice keeper at a big club?

I don’t know how much they’re on but it’s probably several multitudes, per week, of what most people earn per year. Yet even the clubs most ardent fans don’t even know who you are because you never even make the bench

Just turn up for training every week and count your money

We hear a little about failed players and how rejection affects their latter years but we hear very little of those players like Jones, who become multimillionaires for basically doing nothing. Like Trump.

There was an article about that I remember – here it is – ultimate benchwarmers.

Not a bench warmer as such as he’s usually too injured to make it, but Luke Shaw has apparently missed 250 games since he signed for United. Or roughly six seasons. I guess as he’s actually decent he gets less stick than that doled out to Martial, Jones etc.

Millwall v Leeds tonight if anyone needed reminding of the 70s and 80s hooligan nostalgia.

Two European heavyweights going toe to toe tonight as Manchester United play… erm… PAOK

No, me neither. Lord of mates trying to offload tickets, with no takers

PAOK pretty sure they’re from Greece – remember them from playing Sensible Soccer back in the day

Seems like the Floodgates have opened against Noah.

IGMC

You’d love him if he played for your team, but what a nasty, cynical tosser Lisandro Martinez is.

And that’s why we all love him! 😀

He is always a potential red card waiting to happen though

Unbelievably good decision by the ref to allow play on for Liverpool’s first goal.

So there’s only one team in the top 4 levels without a win this season.

Spurs had better watch out tomorrow….

Do you think if Nunez had missed the ref would have sent Bailey off, after playing advantage? Funny to see Nunez finish that, it’s the easier ones he has trouble with.

Pep out BTW.

So there’s only one team in the top 4 levels without a win this season.

Indeed, the only other team until today having just sent Shrewsbury bottom of L1…  hrmph

We are not gonna make it!