Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 1217. (Read 141744 times)

I actually don't want to pin what Lens can do on what Paris Saint Germain can do, because it's very possible for these two teams to get different results. But we know that Paris Saint Germain is the strongest team in Ligue 1 also still very difficult to talk much in the Champions League, and I think what about Lens? I don't mean to underestimate him at all, but again the same thing I think, if you look at these two teams, inconsistency is still thickly enveloping them, so that's the reason why I don't really believe and don't give Lens great hopes. But I also do not rule out the possibility that my analysis will be broken by Lens.

Nothing last forever in football and all successful cycle has its start and ending so Pep Guardiola knows when to leave Manchester City. He will continue to manage Manchester City and consider his player performance in next two seasons to decide he will sign a new contract with Manchester City or leave. If new players can replace current players and increase the club strength, Pep will consider to stay a few more seasons. In contrast, if things are not well, Pep will know that is right time for him to leave at successful time in the club.

PSG needs more than a coach like Pep Guardiola but they need a completely change in their development strategy, from player transfer to player salary and power they are ready giving to their players.

Paying players too high salary will make them lazy, arrogant with their team mates and break many good relationships internally among players and coach. That all together will impact their club performance in Champions League. So PSG have a lot of things to change if they want to sign with Pep in future.

Guardiola may not be planning to leave Manchester City at the moment as there is no reason for him to leave the club at the moment. PSG will improve if Guardiwala goes to PSG but recently former Barcelona manager Luis Enrique took over as PSG manager. Luis Enrique is an experienced and tactical enough manager that PSG will improve under him. Luis Enrique has already joined the PSG training camp. There is no chance of Guardiwala going to PSG at the moment as Luis Enrique has taken over as PSG manager. 
A good manager does not take responsibility for any team that he can improve with. Good managers agree to work with that team.

Well im missing the second leg. that's very bad. But i have made great result during the first leg. I will prefer to take maccabi instead of sheriff. Maccabi's performance is quite consistent at this moment. I think that sheriff gonna lose in upcoming match against maccabi. A bit surprised to see how sheriff was able making three goals easily and it makes farul is nothing when playing at home.



That's really nice results from all of match. I were thinking if i will be losing but surprisingly all of matches were performing so well as i predicted. The result from second leg is quite easy to predict after i were seeing the result from the first leg.
The hardest thing to predict some matches which have small gap between the odds.

I don't think Pep will go back to Barcelona any times soon. He has never said he will go back to Barcelona if they come calling, in fact he has said his path doesn't lead to Barcelona any time soon. Pep will always be a Barcelona fan and he's not ashamed of saying that. He says it any opportunity he gets. Pep supports Barcelona, but that doesn't mean he wants to go back to coaching them.

I think Pep will see out his  contract at Manchester City and that till 2025. That means he still has two more seasons to be at Man City. Pep himself has said when he signs a contract he likes to respect it. Add that to the fact that he has a very good and working relationship with the management of City and is already very successful in the club, he won't be leaving till the end of his contract.

Statements like this are funny because it make it seem like Pep is only successful at Man City because he spends money. No big club in Europe doesn't spend money.
Liverpool, Arsenal, Barcelona, PSG, Madrid, Chelsea all spend ridiculous amount of money, but none of th can boost of the success Man City has.
When Pep coached Barcelona he didn't spend half as much as Madrid but he still dominated the league and Europe. We know today's market is different, but with what Barcelona has Pep can make them a fearsome side in Europe if he was their coach.

Lens are going to be a surprising member in the Champions League this season. They have just lost one of their important players as well. Openda has signed for Leipzig. If Leipzig didn't qualify for the Champions League then maybe Lens could have used the Champions League card for their benefit. However they are at equal conditions now so it is a smart choice for him to choose Leipzig.

Because I don't expect Lens to do very impressive things here. They have been quite inexperienced as there has been a very long time period since the last time they joined this tournament.

Barcelona doesn't have the money for Pep Guardiola to become successful coaching the club, Pep Guardiola has been spoiled with so much money that it'll be very difficult for him to become successful with Barcelona as they're now broke. Just as Messi never turned to Barcelona so will Pep Guardiola never return to Barcelona. It's only Jose Mourinho that has the capacity to return to his former club and make them successful as he did with Chelsea. Zinedine Zidane tried doing that with Real Madrid but he failed. I'm sure pep Guardiola would had learnt from that lesson.

PSG is the coach I think can try to sell pep Guardiola their dreams and he won't hesitate to go over there since it'll be the same oil money he's spending at Manchester city that he'll be spending at PSG but it's not time yet to leave. Pep Guardiola isn't leaving Manchester city not at the peak of his career as he has the opportunities to make history as the only premier league manager to have defended his champions league trophy. Sir Alex Ferguson couldn't do that at his peak with Manchester united but Manchester city can with Pep Guardiola.

The teams that qualified, including the two that you cite, are expected to win and qualify. There is Ferencvaros that lost badly vs Ki, I expected them to pass this stage honestly. HJK passed at the very late of the game. Ludogorets come back from 2 goals down in the first leg to 4-0 in the second leg, that was nice for them.
In the second qualifying round, Zalgiris will have hard time facing Galatasaray and Sheriff have to commit 0 mistake to be able to pass this time.

Though Pep Guardiola isn't known as a manager who's stays in a club for long duration but I think his relationship with Manchester City management has made him develop deep love for the club and has triggered his desire to always his best for the club.
Pep Guardiola who's known for his unquenchable desire for winning big will definitely want to replicate the same feat of last season with the Manchester City team. Though City has lost some of their high quality players who's left the club to sign for other clubs City fans still believes in the technical know-how of their manager

Champions League Qualifying Results: Maccabi Haifa and Sheriff Tiraspol Qualify.
They will play each other in the second qualifier. 
Meanwhile the other Champions League first qualifying results:

Flora vs Rakow (0-3)
Maccabi Haifa vs Hamrun (2-1)
Sheriff Tiraspol vs Farul Constanta (3-0)
BATE vs Partizani (2-0)
The New Saints vs Hacken (0-2)
Zrinjski Mostar vs Urartu (2-3, penalty 4-3)
Breidablik vs Shamrock Rovers (2-1)

The second qualifier will take place July 25 and 26.

Source: www.indosport.com

Exactly. They just don't care about anyone when it comes to trying new things. If this new format turns out to be creating bigger issues for the teams participating I guess the number of complaints would get much bigger. In that case I guess UEFA can't be insistent on maintaining the format. Because they can even face more serious level of protests later.

I would also like to watch an injury-friendly tournament as much as possible. If we aren't to watch great stars in the biggest arena in Europe due to injuries then why would I watch the Champions League?

Maybe teams will make more money with more matches but still the negative sides should also be taken into account seriously.

Pep Guardiola completed the set of ultimate stout priorities for Manchester City. He's very ambitious and capable of exiting Etihad Stadium in any point in time. He moved in unpredictable manner. Furthermore, since his appointment as headcoach for the cityzens, alot of things have really changed, he made it happend with good game winning strategies. One good attribute about Pep Guardiola is, he doesn't give room for reluctant performance and employ disciplinary measures for his players, despite the level you're in his squad, no player is above rules.

You have a point, but we can't say they'll win the Champions League for the second time in a row. Your point was based on their final performance of the season. We must wait for the next season to begin before we can rate and conclude on each team's performance and how they will farewell in the Champions League when it begins.


Building a solid team is not an easy task, as Pep Guardiola demonstrated with Manchester City. If they don't have a capable manager to take over after he leaves his job, all of his hard work in building a strong Manchester City will be for naught. Pep, in my opinion, should try a new club he hasn't coached before, or even a team in a league he hasn't managed any club before; his adventurous perspective seeking new experiences will be more entertaining to follow. 

If Enrique failed to bring PSG to win the Champions League trophy, throughout his contract period with PSG. it is very unlikely, if Zidane will be the next PSG coach. although, it could happen. it's just that, IMO, PSG is not the team criteria squad that Zidane wants. we know very well, there are many clubs interested in using the tactician who once brought Madrid to win many trophies. but in fact, until now Zidane has rejected many offers from various clubs who want him to become head coach.

On the other hand, I don't really believe that Guardiola will become PSG coach one day. although it does not rule out the possibility, but it is the same as Zidane. Guardiola will also choose to coach other clubs after he leaves the Etihad. the problem is almost every coach who has coached PSG, has no special privileges. even some of the previous coaches, it seems, did not take part in the recruitment of the players he wanted to bring in. from my point of view, PSG's main problem is the management.

By the way, we can't know for sure how Enrique will take his team as far as he can go. after all, he is also one of the trainers who has an undoubted track record. well, even though Man City currently occupies the favorite place in this competition. not an easy job, for Pep to defend this competition title with his squad. after all, there are several teams ready to compete with Manchester City. maybe, including PSG.

City looks like they are going to end up with another win purely based on what I have seen last season, and yes I know that's not a good way to do it but I feel like that's going to be an important part. I know that it is going to be a bit of a tough deal and that's going to take a while before we can get used to it, but that's just how it is and we need to be ok with it.

I know that people are not entirely sure about what's going to be the case for City for real, but looking at how they played last year it is clear that they were by far the best team. Hell they literally beat Real with 4-0 score, that alone itself is a proof how amazing they were and that's why I think it is going to be a case where they are not going to end up being wrong.

France League 1 would be Perfect but that would be too easy for him but they currently have a good coach who have won the Champions League before. So you're correct, a move to Italian side would be peng, I'd say Atalanta, but do they have what it takes to splash the cash on good and brilliant players for Pep Guardiola? Not sure they're.
For Manchester City, they'll get to replace Pep Guardiola with the perfect coach for the job to take over from where he stops do as not to take back all the buildings hes had in the past years back to shambles.

It has been several seasons for Pep Guardiola to have been at Manchester City with all his complaint and always learning from mistakes in every game that gave Pep Guardiola the opportunity to successfully bring Manchste City to a treble title.
The struggle with this hard effort made Pep Guardiola reluctant to leave Manchstr City because this success was an honor that could not be taken from other coach and City needed a smart coach like Pep Guardiola to be able to provide direction to get a title as the defending champion in the champions league .
So the two parties between Pep Guardiola and Manchstr City need each other and can work together for the next few seasons and it only natural that Pep Guardiola contract will be extended again to be able to bring City to the treble next season.
I believe last season success will give Manchester City a second chance to be successful.

Manchester City is unlikely to add any new players this season. Because it is natural that the Manchester City team is self-contained. Looking at last season's performance, one can't help but praise the team. Waiting to see if this team brings some new surprises this season.

If Pep wants adventure he needs to go to a league he hasn't been to since starting his coaching career, and I think Serie A might be right for Pep Guardiola. He can meet and compete again with Jose Mourinho to conquer the league even if possible they can compete to conquer the Champions League.
Pep has experience that can bring Serie A representatives to win the Champions League

Yes indeed, Pep Guardiola will have time to leave and with that, then of course Manchester City must be ready to lose Pep someday. But yes, so far it seems that Pep is also still able to accept the extension of his contract at Manchester City and of course, maybe that is proof that Pep Guardiola is still comfortable to be part of Manchester City. Also with all the achievements that have been successfully achieved, maybe I still curious also whether Pep someday will experience failures as well such as failing to finish in the top four and failing to win any trophies in a season. If that happens, then whether it becomes the end of the golden era of Pep, it is certainly interesting to look forward to the extent of the success that Pep can achieve at Manchester City.