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Wolves have Robert Plant

Watford? Elton John

'Nuff said

If that'd been Wolves up against Shitty... well, let's just say a neighbor would currently be watering Robert Plant's plants and feeding his cats because the man would still be on a celebratory drunken bender somewhere in the Black Country in his cape

 

If Slice bought Zeppelin albums instead of Spice Girls ones Plant could have purchased the club and competed.

 

About as much choof as a 3 minute wide sky can fit

 

Two days til hampden. TREBLE TREBLE JUNGLE FEVER

 

PSG owner being busted. Papers writing about Man City being merely a front for the "Soft Power" of Abu Dhabi.

 

Excellent

 

Even if the powers that be do nothing in the meantime, it still makes certain the word is out there and can shape public perception

 

PSG owner Al-Khelaifi charged with corruption over Qatar World Athletics Championships

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN chief Nasser Al-Khelaifi has today been charged with corruption in the bidding process for this year’s world athletics championships in Doha, judicial sources said.

Al-Khelaifi, who is also the boss of Qatari television channel BeIn Sports, has been under investigation since March in connection with the bidding process for the 2017 and the 2019 world championships.

Another BeIn executive, Yousef Al-Obaidly, a PSG board member, is also under investigation by French justice over the awarding of the 2019 worlds to Qatar.

 

Rumours of Pep going to Juventus, £21m a year. What a fucking surprise that is, 5-star Pep strikes again.

 

Well at least he wouldn't be taking money generated from modern day indentured servitude... but outside of that, I agree with the gist of your post

 

Oh no doubt, City and PSG are far worse, but is the guy ever going to take a difficult job?

 

Seems a bit of a strange criticism tbh, its not like anyone clamours for players to join crap teams to prove their mettle

 

With a few exceptions, players usually prove their mettle with crap teams BEFORE being signed to big money deals with good teams - and this is leaving aside that a comparison between managing and playing isn't particularly clear cut

Name a great manager who didn't prove his quality first with less??

Stein with Dunfermline
Shankly took Liverpool from the second division
Clough made powers out of two wee clubs
Ferguson turned Aberdeen into a genuine power in Europe long before he became "Sir Alex"
Mourinho made unexpected champions of Porto

Guardiola played for Barca and was groomed to manage them, getting his feet wet with the essentially meaningless task of managing their B team, fully and patiently prepared for the gig ... after that, he's managed Bayern and Shitty ... he's never had a squad that didn't have over 20 genuinely World class footballers on it and has always had the purse needed to add anything he needs

 

I'm not saying he's not tactically good or a smart football man but his trophy haul for the sides he's managed is pretty much what you'd expect from any decent manager in charge of those teams

Zidane a great manager? Or was RM so strong that you could say "alright, lads... have at it!" and win?

 

Not quite the same but you look at what Ferguson did in order to build a BETTER United than City.......so much better that they kept City at arms length with shit players for 2, 3 seasons.

The point Shlice is making is that Pepatitis will never take on a sinking ship with massive expectation, right it, and kick ass.

 

I consider his failure to win the CL with this squad a massive failure... he's a jockey sitting atop Secretariat equipped with rocket boosters and a head start

 

Yeah, I mean, like a guy on a building site once said, give me a Billion quid and I will pick a team that wins stuff.

 

Precisely, Irish

 

And he'd be sitting in the stable whining about some other fucker had Seabiscuit and some other fucker had Shergar and if only he had Red Rum.

 

Pepatitis. His name henceforth is Pepatitis.

 

Those are good arguments for rating those managers higher historically but its hardly a basis to criticise pep for not decided 'you know what....I think my next job should be Hudderfield Town for a third the money'. Which is more or less what saucy slice seems to do.

 

I like it

 

Stoke? How about Dortmund? Inter? Arsenal? Nobody is expecting the guy to take the Blackburn Rovers job but he's literally managed only teams that are in the economic stratosphere and all of them were already top sides before he took over

 

If he's concerned with his legacy...

 

Is Pep Guardiola a bald fraud? Statistics reveal some bald truths

 

Taking it well, Hut!

 

If you climb Everest with oxygen your next task is to climb Everest without Oxygen.

nobody is asking you to climb the stairs standing on your hands.

 

Leave wee Pep's alone, he's alright, he's been taken to paradise and seen the jungle

'Each team has its own personality, history - what I want at Manchester city is what Celtic are here, this environment is amazing its a mental shock but it will be a good lesson for the future'

CAN'T BE BOUGHT PEP Nssstnssstnssstnsssst

 

An admirable quote but the idea that he even conceives that it would be possible to turn Shitty into Celtic while simultaneously being covered in the FILTHY STENCH of royalist fascism and slavery revenue just shows you the man is in orbit with Double L in his space capsule

 

You want Celtic? Manage Celtic!