He works within his alloted budget; that's not his fault. It's no different to spending £25-30m per season on a single addition to add class where it is needed, that's what ManU do successfully and that will be affordable for us the moment that we renegotiate our sponsorships. (it's actually affordable now, but that's another story)

We have so many holes to fill though. I am not trying to lessen the impact Guardiola has had at Barcelona, but it IS easier when you can add super quality to super quality.

I think Guardiola has done exceptionally well at Barcelona btw. I don´t buy the nonsense that it is all easy. They were struggling when he arrived, and he made good changes regarding players, he revolutionised their defending from the front, and he got his players to work extremely hard. One shouldn´t underestimate the task at keeping these players who have won so much already hungry and keep complacency out. He does that very well.

Barcelona were not struggling when Guardiola arrived.
Look to North London for a struggling power.

The best thing he can do is focus our recruitment. If we keep RVP, then we should splash a 20 - 30m on one super quality player as United did most summers in the noughties. We can buy one or two other veterans, but it is important to ensure that every year for the next 4 or 5 years one player of note arrives each summer.

Exact same requirement for any new manager.
Keep van Persie and buy a couple of players with serious attacking talent.
Aguero and Silva standard.

exactly y va. people keep moaning about the cash, but we've already got it. at minimum, a 50m transfer kitty from 7 yrs of zero transfer spending, and as for wages we can easily free up 400k/week from the sales of arshavin, bendtner, denilson, chamakh, park, rosicky, squillaci and almunia. and this is not even including the transfer fees we'd get from selling the lot.

imo, our squad is so mismanaged that if we really wanted to, we could re-sign van persie and turn 8 shitsters who don't even play for us into 2 top class players with something like a 20m net spend, including wages.

Tim TJ Mackey wrote:

Biggus wrote:

Can't understand those wanting him, he has indeed the 2nd easiest job in football after Wenger.

And we all know how tough your boy Mourinho has had it at Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid dont we?

Don't forget Porto, when they won the Champions league.

Dont forget, Guardiola won 2 league titles with Barca B.

Don't forget my left testicle, it could win 2 league titles with Barca.

Barca have amazing players, but tactically Pep has still done an outstanding job with them over the years. The way they know when to press and where to move is a blend of great talent and great coaching.

I'd have him in a heartbeat.

yea i'd take him, too. we need his pull in the transfer market. we need to buy 2 established top class attackers, and lets face it, you don't need a talent scout to figure out who those guys are.

i'd just be wary that he's respectful of our english roots and doesn't take the aggression out of our game. i'd hate to have a team of midfield midgets like barca does, and i honestly mean that. i want to see football, not futsal.

take whatever aggression is left out of our game... i want us to mix power and quality like our teams used to.