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Im not surprised by Pep Guardiola's success with Manchester City. He makes good decisions, especially when signing fresh players. Doku and Nunez demonstrate how he recruits talented players. I think Pep picks guys to make the club more competitive, not at random. Because no one wants to be benched, every player improves. However, Chelsea's situation worries me. Liverpool remained with Klopp through good times and bad, even though sacking coaches often weakens teams. Im worried about Chelsea under Pochettino. Though new, his intentions haven't gone as planned. Progress should have increased by now, right?

He's a fantastic boss and tactician, achieving great things with Bayern Munich. Bayern shouldn't have let him go in the first place anyway. What he has achieved over the years is truly remarkable. This man is set to elevate German football to new heights. Julian Nagelsmann was the top choice from the beginning. The DFB appoint him to reignite the team's spirit with his youthful enthusiasm. He deserves this position, and I believe this is even more prestigious than being a club coach. This is just the beginning.

It's good because he every managed Bayern Munich, so he already know the capability of the players and also with other Germany players. Nagelsmann could become the best youngest coach in the world if he successfully brought German at least enter semi final at Euro 2024. German always get eliminated too early, not like when they were in the last decade. German problem is same like England, they have many quality players but bad coaches.

If what you said was true, then pep would pick him. Being compared with silva doesn't mean he was as good as silva.
It's funny how you said you knew everything about him while city humiliated westham even when moyes's club was playing at home.  
Silva was still able to play. There's no need to replace him at this moment. Paqueta was going to take over KDB's spot, but Pep was aware of his poor character and ongoing investigations by local authorities and the FA.
He may get the same sanction like what already received by ivan tooney.

Paqueta was a flop when he was playing for lyon and acmilan. His performance was only a bit better when he has been doing his debut with westham last year but it doesn't mean he is the best guy to replace KDB. His level is far below KDB.

City was the smartest club in EPL. Pep knew better than moyes in recruiting the best player for manchester city.



Are you joking?

It is certain that Julian Nagelsmann will fill the seat of German national team coach in the near future and he will get a short-term deal until Euro 2024 ends. It seems that the rumors circulating previously have now been answered and the former Bayern Munich coach will soon take charge of the German national team. I think it was the right decision taken by the DFB to appoint Julian Nagelsmann as the new German coach because even though he is still young, his achievements are already quite good. Moreover, he already knows the characteristics of the players in the squad so it will be easier for him to process them. Maybe my only hope is that Julian Nagelsmann will be able to achieve good results with the German national team at Euro 2024, especially as hosts, Germany cannot be eliminated first.

This is what we read when someone knows little or nothing about the particular player, from today make sure you watch him pressing, tackling and team work. He has been compared to Bernardo Silva for his qualities. Brazilians are blessed he is the nearest player to replace Silva if he had left when Barcelona made him a hot target.
Westham and David Moyes knows the worth of the player it is the reason why they raised his fee so high to delay Man City signing out one of the finest midfielders they have. He deserves a big club still city should have taken him over Kovacic.

It seems like that vlahovic is not so happy stay at juventus at this moment. Juventus has been always trying to offer him to the various club but juventus's offer always been rejected by the various clubs like chelsea.
It will be disappointed if vlahovic will decide to leave from juventus to join in the al hilal but if it will be his decision and i can only put all of my respects to his decision. Vlahovic is still young enough.
The only problem if juventus puts non sense price for his clause. Vlahovic will able to get the new club easily if his price will be decreased by juventus. As you can see that if vlahovic is still useful even for the club who didn't like him to stay.
It's tiem for vlahovic to think about his future. Vlahovic can start to give pressure to the juventus in decreasing his release clause. Im sure there will be a lot of clubs will try to get him from juventus. Vlahovic can force juventus to do that in january.
He really needs to find suitable club for himself.

In as much as England has good players and is in need of a better coach, Pep has individual accolades to win for himself rather chassing another nation's honour. If by Chance Pep wins the Champions League of this season, he will likely go for Zidane's trio and if he accomplishes the trio challenge, he will like to add 1 more. That is the nature of man and his challenges. 
Manchester City is paying Pep very well, don't expect him to leave City in a haste and start to gamble around. Pep is already a big bird in the coaching world, so he will like to set records.

Seems good opportunity for England national teams winning trophies if Pep Guardiola agree become England head coach, but he still has contract with Manchester City and difficult for replacing Pep Guardiola position have success winning many tittles for City from Premier League until most dreaming tittle UEFA Champion League.

FA have one year left looking for position leaving by Gareth Southgate after announcing he will not extend his contract will over after EURO 2024. Pep Guardiola is most manager dreaming not only by club but also for national team, but I am less interested if Pep Guardiola only focus to be national team head coach because he was success manager with all club ever become manager from Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

this is a normal condition that Chelsea is currently experiencing and perhaps will also be experienced by several other teams when every season the players and coaches always change which causes a much different performance update and as we can see, it is not only Chelsea, but Man United is one of them. In all of these conditions, the main key is actually in the management that manages the finances. I mean if management can really manage the finances to buy players and contract the right coach for the team, I am sure a team will never experience a very drastic decline in performance like what Chelsea experienced at the time and also Man United which is experiencing a decline in performance.
this will be a challenge that must be solved by the coach of each team to find ways to improve the performance of their players to strengthen the team in the future.

But what do you mean by successful? It's correct that he had his successes here and there and it would be wrong to say he failed in his career, but his goal was to go to a European top club and become the number one choice on his position. I think he never achieved that and he played a little bit less than 80 full 90 minute games. I am not counting substitutions here, just did the maths on full 90 minute games. That was in 6 years and he scored less than 3 goals per year and he played about 13 full games per year during his engagement at PSG. Of course that has to be respected as well because first of all someone has to make it to PSG, but I think his real plans didn't really come true.

With the current conditions, I don't think we should be able to distinguish between the past and the present.
A few seasons ago this strategy might still end with good results as we know where there are a series of great coaches who have been at Chelsea but now it is difficult to happen again.
The reason is because currently Chelsea do not have staff who can be considered reliable like Cech for technical advisors and team performance or the loss of Bruce Buck and Marina Granovskaia from the ranks of Chelsea officials.

Even though they are behind the scenes but in this case we must realize that their role is really very good for Chelsea so that the strategy of changing either coaches or players can still be done because their planning is mature but now they make changes and reshuffles based on desperation for something instant not mature planning.

Paqueta was an over rated guy, his price is not even worth with his skill. Manchester city has been taking the right choice in picking doku instead of him. I don't know why but this seems weird. I meant newcastle had gordon that was always playing so well and why does the club need paqueta?
Newcastle is not need paqueta at this moment but the club needs to get a new coach which has capability in maximizing the performance from the available players in the club. It looks so pathetic to see that how eddie keeps try to waste more money to buy the new player.
Eddie must aware if himself has no capability in coaching the new castle. His mission is now even bigger compared with last season. newcastle was also getting some bad performances in EPL.
I would like to see him stay in westham rather than go to the newcastle. Newcastle has gordon and it's more than enough for the club. I think if paqueta will be used as gordon's back up only.
It will disappoint to see him move to the newcastle. He will get less time to play in newcastle.

There's no confirmation has been coming from pep regarding him to be linked with england national club. Gareth southgate will be leaving from the club after euro 2024 but england has not yet tried to approach pep.
I can't even speculate his future. Pep may also reject england's offer as well. I remember he has been committing to coaching manchester city till end of his contract. In fact, pep is always aiming to break more and more record.
I think that england needs also to find an alternative plan once pep will be rejecting it.

No comments from him regarding this. The chance is still 50:50 for him to get the job as a coach for england national club.

It's true that at that time it was Barcelona triumph as a big and popular team in Europe and of course the Spanish League and in the photo you can see how happy Ronaldinho was with a smile to be able to pose with his former teammates.
But again it is a shame that he who is a star player has to have a history of bad transfers with unpopular teams at the end of his retirement.

Pep and Manchester City have truly realized the wishes of all fans in becoming the strongest team in European football and Pep has succeeded in achieving all the success with the young players he has chosen in contrast to PSG which has sufficient finances but has not used it to look for some talented young players to fill the vacancies they currently experience.

Talking a little about English football where many Manchester United supporters expressed their disappointment with Ten Hag and what is in the spotlight is that Ronaldo can now really develop with Al Nassr in the Saudi League and many people say that Ten Hag failed in making the decision to get rid of Ronaldo from Manchester United and currently Manchester United cannot have a striker who might be able to bring victory to the squad coached by Ten Hag.

Indeed, it was a great opportunity for any player to play for Manchester City and regarding his failure, Lucas Paqueta was involved in a betting case and the FA at that time was under investigation to resolve the case. This is what made Manchester City withdraw from the transfer of Lucas Paqueta so that the transfer was declared over.

Source: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12040/12942474/lucas-paqueta-man-city-transfer-on-hold-due-to-fa-and-fifa-betting-investigation


However, not long ago Manchester City were again looking for a midfielder and they got him from Wolves, the player was Matheus Nunes. Coming back to Lucas Paqueta, even though if he joins Manchester City, it is true that he will not get proper playing minutes like in his current team or Newcastle, but it is likely that he will be made KDB's successor by Pep Guardiola, especially at that time KDB was also still injured so Pep Guardiola must look for a midfielder as a temporary replacement for KDB. Indeed, I agree with the possibility of Newcastle failing in the group phase considering their performance has been quite poor so far and is hardly what we expected to cause a surprise in the champions league, but yes everything is not certain until we see the results later.

Charging coach isn't good but that's the strategy Chelsea has been using for the past 20 years and  it has been working for them. In the tenure of the past owner, we changed manager whenever things weren't working for us and the new manager always delivered so probably that's what Todd Boehly is going with changing managers. He really need to rethink because probably changing managers isn't going to be what will work for him, he should try giving one manager enough time to try to fix things. The previous managers before Pochettino weren't qualified managers therefore sacking them was understandable but he shouldn't do the same to Pochettino but give him time to prove his worth.


Todd Boehly made a mistake sacking Thomas tuchel and that was the genesis of every problem Chelsea is facing currently. We sacked a coach that won us almost everything in a very short time that he spent at the club and yet we couldn't give him sometime to get his shit together and that's why Chelsea is paying for such an ungrateful act that they did. It'll take us time to recover and going out to spend money on players or hiring new coaches isn't going to bail us out. We need to give the club time to recover fully from the managers going, previous owner going before we start spending money in the market unless we just want to waste money.

I also get to say that he has stayed for too long and should be warned ahead he had the last Euro's and screwed things, The World Cup was yet another and now another European competition. If he does not win a major award and trophy for england side this period his sack is just a few steps away from his doorpost. Southgate disappoints he choice and selection are always not in alignment no wonder they struggled to win the big occasion games. Against Italy and also between France during the world cup.
The Euros is next year Pep Guardiola can not leave his job with city for England too quick.

I don't think real madrid will give em another contract extension for their careers. The chance owned by kroos is far bigger compared with modric which will be touching 38 years old. he will be too old to play as a midfielder for real madrid.
Modric won lots of trophies with Real Madrid and became a legend, but his performance has declined due to age. Modric's current performance is far different compared with what it used to be.

That impress me how modric can still play in both football club and national club at the same time at his age. He may need to find a new place to go caused by im not sure if real madrid is interesting to extend his contract for another year.
Modric may suffer the same consequence as Ronaldo did, if Real Madrid chooses to release him from the team after he has spent a considerable time there.

That is true what you write. But with him, they have someone who become world champion in 2014, 4x champion in france, 1x champion in portugal and 1x cup winner in germany. At Al-Ahli SC he is the most valuable player, no one of the players in the team has so many successes as he does. So he will not only play good football, but also high motivation - "play together with a world champion". At the age of 29, mybe he will play another 3-4 years.