Biggus wrote:

Nah you need to go Here for that.

Surely you chaps are the ones who could get your hatin' on in there, instead of derailing every other thread in the place?

Wenger out, George Graham in. All hail King Kenny. :hmm: If Wenger ever leaves there is no guarantee whoever takes over will bring us success. Anyway... this going off topic. Peps done a great job at Barca , his best friends fight with cancer has taken its toll on him.

Fantastic.Mr.Fox wrote:

If Wenger ever leaves there is no guarantee whoever takes over will bring us success.

WHAT!!! you mean we might win even less than we're won the past 7 years! :o

Does that mean they're going to take back trophies we've already won??? 😆

If he does quit, it could serve as a reminder of how stressful a top job at a demanding club is. Men like Mourinho, Ferguson, etc are under tremendous pressure to win trophies, entertain, play certain players and massage egos. Pep has said before that his job has been very taxing. He has also mentioned that teams go stale after 3 years with one manager, which is why in competitive leagues you rarely see teams winning more than a three-peat.

If he leaves, I hope nobody accuses him of leaving after a failed season. What might look like a failure at Barca would be a triumphant season for a team like Arsenal.

As for his reign: I hate Barca, but they are the best team I have seen since the Sacchi/Capello Milan. Better than Mourinho/Ancelotti's Inter, better than Mourinho's Chelsea, van Gaal's Ajax, The Real Galacticos, and Ferguson's turn of the millennium United.

The only times I saw European teams beat them while playing attacking football was Mourinho's Inter 3 years ago and Arsenal at the Emirates. That teams typically had to change adapt tactics specifically to play against him is a sign of the quality of his team's attacking play.

I'll remember him for trying out interesting formations and tools including

  • false 9s
  • 3 4 3
  • converting Mascherano into a capable center back

I'll also remember the way his teams just bossed United because United were neither attacking enough to go toe-to-toe nor disciplined enough to just soak up the pressure like Chelsea.

Well done to him if he leaves. Long live Pep. Barcelona are dead.

Claudius wrote:

If he does quit, it could serve as a reminder of how stressful a top job at a demanding club is. Men like Mourinho, Ferguson, etc are under tremendous pressure to win trophies, entertain, play certain players and massage egos.

😆 I notice you exclude Wenger from that list.

Claudius wrote:

If he leaves, I hope nobody accuses him of leaving after a failed season. What might look like a failure at Barca would be a triumphant season for a team like Arsenal.

I certainly will, Barcelona are not Arsenal, their standards are far higher.

Lagos wrote:
Biggus wrote:

WHAT!!! you mean we might win even less than we're won the past 7 years! :o

Does that mean they're going to take back trophies we've already won??? 😆

nah it means we might not win the Emirates cup Biggus

😆

Claudius wrote:
I Am Arsenal Till I Die wrote:

Wengerist fans?

Get a grip.

Yeah. I'm tired of people fawning over Barcelona like they've just seen Jesus and then dismissing alternative tactical approaches to football as though they are a blight on the game. It's an elitist fanaticism.

And suggesting that anyone who disagrees is a Wengerite and not an Arsenal fan?

That's not elitist at all!

I nearly forgot about that. Good point!

Burnwinter wrote:

This thread is fucked.

About a third of the posts are unrelated heckling about Wenger. That's a fair depth of dreck to wade through to get to anyone's actual opinion about Guardiola's potentially imminent departure from Barcelona.

Keep it on topic?

Nice idea alright Burnsy...

Bielsa or AVB to take his place perhaps?

I'd like Pep to take over from Arsene but I'd be wary about the resulting confusion I'd encounter in every thread in AT. He's a class act though, exactly the kind of guy who should be managing AFC. (Arsene is also one of those guys, for the record)

Whoever takes over, it must be merits/results based.
No one totalitarian dictatorship for life.

Heard Barca are interested in Alex Mcleish

Guardiola is class personified...Always have admired him for that, even though I'm not a fan of tippy tappy....
Good luck, stay healthy, Pep...

he enjoyed all the happy success and at the first sign of disappointment he left, for pep he has basically had three perfect seasons and is now regarded as one of the best managers in the world. Couldnt have gone better for him. I imagine wenger is nothing like pep otherwise he would have left arsenal 5 seasons ago.

Wenger could learn a lesson from this classy guy. Barcelona fans will always remember Pep as someone who embodied success. Wenger on the other hand, has diluted his brand by having 7 fat years and then 7 lean years.

Peps done a marvellous job. Imagine if he leaves management altogether now, he'll become a myth.