Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) - page 405. (Read 1199178 times)

Pep not winning CL trophy yet at Manchester City could be a major factor that will guarantee his stay at the club next season however if the club is sanctioned then he will go elsewhere to continue his job.
To Prove a point as a world class coach he must win CL cup to his kitty in man city this will in a long run established his status in the global football arena having achieved and won numerous trophies in his former clubs.

I would like to see him in one club for more than three seasons. When they need to keep continuity with different players. They win everything this season (okay, almost everything ) and I am very curious how they will motivate his players in next season. It is much harder to stay on top than to go up there.

^  Uuuhh.  I really don't take it that seriously to make a comment.  I just love gambling on football and watch.  But I get what you mean.  I got friends who say the same thing.  I just tell them to enjoy it.  At the end of the day, it's just a sport, nothing more.  They sometimes treat it like some sort of religion, sometimes willing to bash heads for it.  Lol.

Pep didn't do that. His squad of world class players did. I think managers are overrated. Let's be honest, who couldn't win something with Barca or Man City? Let Pep go to a struggling team and see how well he does then. Let's see if he can get a none-league team into the Championship or even Premier League. Then I will call him great. He'd be nothing without hundreds of millions to spend and a squad already worth half a billion. Money has tarnished football for me. The Premier League is great to watch but where's the glory in watching a team built on foreign money with foreign players? Supporting your local team is irrelevant now as what relation are they to you other than in name? If some billionaire buys out your club, buys half the best players in the world then starts winning trophies is that something to be proud about? Isn't that essentially just cheating? It's like soccer's own doping scandal, but instead of using drugs they just use money and loopholes and buy the best players and you know they'd go to any team as long as the wages are big enough. Ronaldo and Neymar would probably go to Tranmere Rovers if you gave them a million a week. Who is going to be the next big club to top City? It's just the luck of  what investors  pick which club. City are arguably one of the biggest and if not best team on the planet right now but they weren't' before all the oil money. They were nobodies. I just can't see how you could make it more fairer but the FIFA financial rules are a joke. I doubt they'll deny City the CL. They'll just fine them a shitload and it's more money for them and City will pay it with no complaints. Not much different from racketeering if so. They should look into how many foreigners you could have on the pitch at once as well. Then let's see how great City are and everyone else. I wonder what the leagues would look like if you could only have x amount or even all players that were born within your city. Then that would give you something to be proud of when your team win something. Smaller clubs just don't have a chance. It's going to be really boring if City just win the league over and over like how United dominated in the late 90s and early 00s. There really needs to be a sea change in how football clubs can operate but when all the governing bodies care about is making money then I can't see it happening.


  Silly money. It's probably just cheaper to bribe FIFA to win the CL.

Manchester City is the first team to win three trophies in a year in Premier League.No other team had won the three trophies before them so this is a great achievement from Manchester City.Imagine if they had eliminated Tottenham and also won the Champions League that would have been awesome.

With this win on FA Cup, Manchester City got a Treble winner for this season. Congrats to man city and Pep, also Man City just give a new contract to Pep for the next five years.

Next season will be interesting though. Let's see is Man City will still the same or not.

It this true that they will be some new rules in Premier league next season.

1. Hand-playing - From now on, every hand-gamble will be sanctioned, it will no longer look at whether the hand was with the body or whether the player intended to play it. Each contact of the ball and arm will be judged as a penalty kick.
2. Penalties - Goalkeepers will have to always be on the goal line with one leg and before the penalty shootout they will not be allowed to touch the goal frame.
3. Free kick - A free-kick team will not be allowed to have their players in a live wall, but only the players of the defending team will be able to find it there.
4. Changes - When changing players, a player can leave the field at any place, so there will be no longer waiting to go out in the middle of the playground.
5. "Dead" ball - From next season the ball will in this situation belong to the team whose last player had contact with it.
6. Cards for coaches - Judges will be able to sanction coaches who will receive yellow and red cards as well as players in the field.

It will be interesting to see how the Premier League will look next season with all the new rules, and how the teams and coaches will adapt to these newspapers.

That's what Pep! Pep wants to become a UCL champion with Manchester City, because the premier league title is certainly no satisfaction for him. Actually, the big goal is to become a UCL champion with Manchester City. After that, the target may be fulfilled and will look for experiences in other leagues.

He's been with City for only 3 seasons so that's not such a long time considering he did a great job for the team even though they didn't won a Champions League trophy or come close to that. He will probably stay for a few more years here because there is still enough time for him to win. Champions League and he knows he has good chances to do it with this team.

I agree with tokeweed, Pep is staying unless City gets thrown out of Europe. The club wants him badly and they offered him a new 5 year contract (20 millions pounds per season if I am not mistaken)

I think that he is going to leave the club this summer.
So many years and still didn't manage to win the Champions League or at lease reach the final with such a powerful team. There would be a lot of teams that will be in search for a new coach so he will have his chances to choose one of them,

Ah a fellow City fan.  Where have you been?  Lol.  Everyone was rooting for Liverpool in these parts, been navigating the keyboard to avoid offending anybody.  Lolol.

Still, no CL, no satisfaction for Pep.  He's gonna stay until he wins one for City, unless the club gets implicated for some FFP rule they're being accused of breaking.

Man City has done it all this season except winning the CL which continues to be a problem for Man City. As a fan of Man City this is the one title I want them to win so desperately and I really thought that this season was the time for them to win but again it was a failed campaign. However we have witnessed one of the best seasons from an English club winning all the domestic titles which isn't an easy thing to do and not many teams have been able to achieve this so we must give Man City credit for this achievement. Hopefully Pep stays and hopefully Man City will be able to compete in the CL next season.

^  He's staying at City.


Exactly.  And it feels like they're not entirely happy with their 2018/19 campaign too, missing out on a UCL final.

Pep would only be up there with SAF if he wins the same treble United won in 1999.  The quadruple if he gets lucky.

Yeah, but if the Man City will be kicked out of the UCL it will be an easy choice from him.

Keep also in mind, here in Italy a Guardiola's voice around Juve was born around January not only, some press reported an agreement for the season 2020/2021.

According to this source https://twitter.com/MomblanOfficial one of the most reliable sources in Italy (this guy was the 1st to announce Neymar to PSG, Ronaldo to Juve and #Allegriout 4 days ago) told:

- Juventus already have a contract with one manager and has a pre-agreement with a coach who is coaching right now (3 days ago, so for this info Conte can't be a candidate)
- Pochettino 0%
- Guardiola is the 1st choose, he knows what he said 2 days ago about I will stay on ManCity next season, but this is exactly the same thing Guardiola said when he was on Bayern.

In the end for him

1st choice (and maybe the precontract, who knows) Guardiola
2st choice Conte
3rd Sarri/Mou

Is clear to him that they will try everything for Pep.

Also this evening we will have the party at the Allianz Stadium for the title if they know something they will probably annonce tommorow after the celebration even if the season will end next sunday.

I have read the news that Pep Guardiola is one of the candidates to become the Juventus coach next season. If in my opinion, it is certainly very unlikely that Pep Guardiola will go to Italy next season to train in Juventus. Because Pep Guardiola will stay with Manchester City next season and that is certain if I think of course. Maybe Pep Guardiola's big target next season is to bring Manchester City to become the English league champions and UCL.

Pep Guardiola thinks I will stay with Manchester City, everyone knows that the club is very rich. If Pep wants to get out, I think the club will use various ways with his money to seduce Pep to stay at Manchester City.

No, I think Pep’s a great manager. He’s just not like ‘the best ever’ because he hasn’t done very well in the CL since he left Barca. That’s a fact!

If he doesn’t win the CL with City I’d say he’s failed there. Pellegrini & Mancini won the PL with City. Pep needs a CL there.

So do you think even though pep is replaced then other managers will do the same? I don't think it's a guarantee, pep and Man.city complement each other

Pep’s a great manager but he only ever goes to teams that are already built with the most money in their respective leagues.

He still hasn’t got to a CL Final without Messi.