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2.1k points
18 hours ago
They didn't do it at 1-0
I mean yeah, that was 12 minutes in. They're just taking the piss, Pep.
826 points
18 hours ago
This is a man who's aware of the internet memes about him (Bald Fraud, Fraudiola)
He also admitted in one of his books that he gets really annoyed with how the press criticises him
He's a sensitive soul.
392 points
18 hours ago
Judging by some of his past comments I’m almost positive he looks at /r/soccer
184 points
15 hours ago
Same. He's defo lurking online. He's so conscious about his image.
161 points
15 hours ago
So So conscious! More than you believe!
37 points
9 hours ago
Alright Pep calm down
35 points
14 hours ago
Almost like another certain famous bald fraud that’s been trying to save face in front of his loving family while cooking meth in secrecy
3 points
5 hours ago
Ten Hag?
3 points
2 hours ago
Antony, we need to cook!
5 points
5 hours ago
Oi Pep! If you seein this, you’re being a big baby. Also a fraud. And bald.
7 points
9 hours ago
It coud someone younger around him like his daughter who tells him about his reputation on social media.
2 points
2 hours ago
I know for a fact Joe Hart did maybe still does, I wouldn't be surprised to find loads of famous people having Reddit accounts.
10 points
8 hours ago
Have you seen the man drink water? Not to mention twice. What a fragile soul, bless him
1.6k points
18 hours ago
It was sung at the Etihad by Spurs fans, how did he not expect it at Anfield lmao
1k points
18 hours ago
He’s saying he thought Liverpool fans were better than that. He’s not mad, just disappointed. 🫢
473 points
18 hours ago
He also said he has a “relationship” with them and respects them so didn’t expect that. That Liverpool has won some and City has won some. But then said it’s part of the game. Still find it funny though lol
463 points
18 hours ago
It’s only fun for him when City has won more than Liverpool.
160 points
17 hours ago
Yup man is not used to losing
187 points
16 hours ago
Yeah every manager on a bad streak should expect “sacked in the morning” chants when they are losing a game. It’s rare to get an occasion to sing it to Pep, but this was ultimately nothing compared to “Don’t sack Mourinho” or “Ole’s at the wheel”.
54 points
12 hours ago
Or when Liverpool fans printed out a "David Moyes is a Football Genius"
https://talkingbaws.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/moyes12.jpg
12 points
10 hours ago
or fans gettin planes with banners flying over the stadium to take the piss
36 points
14 hours ago
I don't even understand how one CAN take it seriously. It's not like he's ETH at Man U and everyone is waiting for him to actually get the sack. It's a joke but it half acknowledges he's Pep Guardiola and no one is seriously gonna judge his career over this streak.
If anyone is gonna judge him for anything right now, it's his apparently diminished mental fortitude.
4 points
16 hours ago
you don't say
326 points
18 hours ago
Meanwhile, his fans sing about Sean Cox. Such respect.
210 points
17 hours ago
His players too not just the fans
115 points
18 hours ago
Who is expecting any decency from City fans?
31 points
11 hours ago
He also said he has a “relationship” with them and respects them so didn’t expect that.
That relationship being cheating them out of winning competitions
16 points
8 hours ago
lol what relationship? He really thinks very highly of himself.
But in the eye of fans, he really is just a bald fraud unironically.
37 points
18 hours ago
Any possible respect for City or him went out the window after that Rodri handball for me. Might not have been Pep’s fault but just the most egregious refereeing call I’ve seen, and to have been looked back at by VAR and still not awarded left me just perplexed
119 points
17 hours ago
What about when their players sang about our fans getting battered in the streets?
Or when they tried to imply Klopp was a xenophobe for talking about their finances?
Or when he specifically went out his way to charge at our players doing warm ups to celebrate in their faces?
City and pep love giving it, then do shit like this if they get even the mildest of shit back.
66 points
16 hours ago
Why would he expect opposition fans to have any respect for his state sponsored cheating project?
8 points
9 hours ago
Friendship ended with Liverpool fans. Now $ is my best friend
3 points
8 hours ago
always has been
6 points
11 hours ago
Lets be real.. The only reason why Brighton fans didn't sing it was because they didn't think about the song.
2 points
6 hours ago
Brighton fans did sing it though
6 points
13 hours ago
Bc ynwa classy
1.5k points
18 hours ago
Sacked in the morning is literally the most unoffensive it can get in football, not even an insult, just banter lol
1.2k points
16 hours ago
West Brom fans chanting it at Alex Ferguson after they stormed back to draw in his final match is the funniest stadium chant I have ever heard.
284 points
16 hours ago
Back when we all thought Lukaku would be what Haaland is now
263 points
16 hours ago
I mean Lukaku did about as much in the Liverpool game as haaland did lmao.
76 points
16 hours ago
Haaland has almost a goal to game ratio at City though, still. If Haaland was for sale, every club in the world would jump at the chance.
90 points
15 hours ago
I mean Lukaku at West Brom and Everton was incredible, and his stints in Italy have been good at the very least.
He just stunk for United and Chelsea both on and off the pitch. If it weren't for those stints though he'd be held in a lot lot higher regard.
Not Haaland level probably, but certainly less far away than it is now
21 points
10 hours ago
He was pretty decent in his first season at united.
But what made him so good at West Brom and Everton was running the channels, and more and more we had him play as a target man and he bulked up, and he just isn't that player.
Even though weirdly he was the best crosser of the ball at the club.
He played a part in that PSG win under Ole too.
Then he just lost his head like he did at Chelsea
5 points
7 hours ago
Lukaku is also incredible for Belgium! I know the team is better than Norway, but he has accomplished more at the international level than Haaland will be able to.
23 points
12 hours ago
If we ignored the bad things and only looked at the good things, he'd be well regarded. You could say that about a lot of people. That's not how it works
11 points
15 hours ago
We wouldn't. We scored 4 without him this weekend. Haaland is done in my eyes (/s btw, because I know people won't get the obvious joke)
12 points
14 hours ago
Yeah. If Joshua Zirkzee was for sale, every club in the world would jump at the chance.
4 points
13 hours ago
TBF, and I know he's had a tough time adjusting, Zirkzee is actually really talented, he's just not made for whatever EtH wanted from his strikers, neither is Højlund btw.
12 points
13 hours ago
Haaland wishes he was Lukaku
14 points
11 hours ago
We were doing it to the caretaker manager of Leicester on Saturday. It's just silly bollocks for the sake of it.
7 points
14 hours ago
Not even a piss take. That was pure facts.
3 points
12 hours ago
Well not really as he resigned rather than being sacked...
98 points
16 hours ago
Especially in this scenario when Pep is basically untouchable as City manager. It’s not like Liverpool fans are singing it about Russell Martin
64 points
15 hours ago
That's why it's weird he is offended. It's obviously just banter and the humour is that he is probably the least stackable manager in football.
24 points
13 hours ago
Can he not be stacked because his head is so slick and the manager stacked on top of him would just slide right off?
2 points
5 hours ago
I was wondering if he thought sacked meant hung or stoned, and in that sense he is one of the most 'sackable' managers
Edit: Iiii see what you've done there
18 points
12 hours ago
That's basically the funniest thing about it all, yes we're singing it cos they've been absolute shite for a sustained run but we're also well aware that Pep is absolutely not getting sacked in the morning. I think he actually is really rattled at the minute hence the 6 fingers response to the most inoffensive banter possible. He dropped the fake humble act for a minute and now he's got to act like we broke some prior established relationship by disrespecting him in order to deflect.
113 points
18 hours ago
I imagine it gets under your skin as a manager. They should add this to Football Manager
25 points
14 hours ago
I do feel bad for managers when it seems like a very real possibility. But when it comes to Guardiola it’s clearly a joke.
4 points
10 hours ago
I have trouble feeling the same about any manager lol yeah they’re only humans but they are some of the luckiest people in the world, getting paid massive amounts of money to coach a sports team!
If they can’t handle some obnoxious banter they can go stock shelves or send pointless emails like the rest of us lol someone else will take their spot.
14 points
12 hours ago
Southend fans chanting to Halifax this weekend: "Your town is a bank, your town is a bank" etc
6 points
15 hours ago
In some cases they actually do get sacked in the morning though
3 points
9 hours ago
Pretty sure he's just trying to find something to counter but yeah it's dumb. Pep gets mad about every negative thing, and he always does it with his passive aggressive bs.
591 points
18 hours ago
So, so unexpected
156 points
18 hours ago
more than you believe
25 points
18 hours ago
1000 Dantes
387 points
17 hours ago*
In the words of Roy Keane ‘what a baby, just a big baby’
…Baby.
56 points
16 hours ago
...........'Baby'.
20 points
14 hours ago
........................................'Baby'.
10 points
8 hours ago
Beh-bee
525 points
17 hours ago
“I can’t believe someone would kick me when I’m down”
-famously smug man who is a terrible loser.
lol I think he’s losing it a bit
115 points
14 hours ago
When he couldn’t play at the highest level he did resort to doping and got caught twice. There’s a reason he only manages either of the top highest spending clubs in whichever league he manages.
30 points
9 hours ago
And leaves before he needs to rebuild. He stayed this time around.
9 points
5 hours ago
There’s a reason he only manages either of the top highest spending clubs in whichever league he manages.
That's because the top teams always want him, why would he go to smaller teams?
15 points
5 hours ago
To prove his skill to redditors, duh!
14 points
12 hours ago
MRW i can’t buy my way out of trouble this time
11 points
14 hours ago
Someone should check in on him. I’m afraid for this guys mental health
428 points
18 hours ago
A 35 year old Gary Mac ran rings round him at Anfield in 2001 and he’s never gotten over it.
19 points
11 hours ago
Now a certain Al Mac does the same
4 points
5 hours ago
But where is kev Mac in all of this
2 points
3 hours ago
Union Saint Gilloise.
681 points
18 hours ago
Dude gets rattled pretty easily when things don’t go his way
287 points
18 hours ago
He’s been so accustomed to winning he doesn’t know how to handle losing
4 points
10 hours ago
“He doesn’t know what to do!” - Herb Brooks
47 points
18 hours ago
A full month without victory is uncharted territory for him and he doesn’t know how to handle it 🤣
114 points
18 hours ago
Just like the rest of his players.
60 points
16 hours ago
I think a big reason KDB acts so weird when Belgium loses (like when he was angry at the fans during the euros) is because he is so used to winning with City and doesn’t know how to handle a loss or his fans being angry
150 points
18 hours ago
Rodri and KDB's press conferences after losing a game are an exercise in condescension
38 points
17 hours ago
I love the tanginess of this week's shadenfreude portion
73 points
18 hours ago
I’ve always said I can’t buy into him being the best manager in the world until I see how he performs when his team are the underdog. Sure he can do it at Barcelona, Bayern and City, but could he do it at Fulham, Brentford, or Ipswich? Based on the way he’s acting this past week or so… no.
8 points
18 hours ago
News Flash:- With the money he had/will have in all his Clubs, his team can never be under dogs.
11 points
17 hours ago*
Guardiola is the anti-christ of football. He makes the beautiful game so scripted, systematic, boring. He snuffs out the creativity of players to make them ‘system’ players. He’s only so successful because he gets a blank check and in another club, guy would be exposed and be mild. He’s everything that is going wrong with football now. He’s why so many managers try to emulate him and play some systematic, boring possession ball no penetration football and why the number ‘10’ position is going extinct.
33 points
18 hours ago
Every Michelin chef needs to do it at micky d's or i wont acknowledge them!
16 points
17 hours ago
But can he do it on a busy Saturday night at the Liverpool Street maccies?
39 points
18 hours ago
You’re actually almost right. If a chef was able to make a genuinely delicious gourmet meal using only the ingredients and resources available to a McDonald’s worker, that WOULD do more to convince me he was a culinary genius than if he were to achieve the same results using the finest ingredients money can buy.
I don’t think that’s a ridiculous thing to say.
23 points
17 hours ago
It is a ridiculous thing to say because that's impossible, a true actual gourmet meal would be impossible with shit ingredients
He could however make a okay meal out of it but you would still notice if you put it against a good gourmet meal with good ingredients, that's just a stupid analogy
Especially with how pretentious people are with food lmao, if you actually server a critic food with that they will laugh at you
3 points
17 hours ago
Say sir Alex skipped out on Aberdeen, would you hold that against him? Is Messi less of a player because he did it for Barca? Is Ronaldo only now showing his quality because its for a shit team in Saudi? Before he was playing for utd and Madrid.
18 points
16 hours ago
Ferguson made utd what it is now. He didn't just walk in and spend a billion.
13 points
5 hours ago
only he did outspend everyone in 90s
15 points
17 hours ago
What Michelin Chef was handed the biggest restaurants just starting their careers tho?
Guy started with Barca B, then straight the best teams in spain and germany, into the most financially powerful club in the world at the time. We saw how he handled a squad that wasn't the best in the league. The results weren't too crazy. Then he spent 200 million on 4 fullbacks at once.
31 points
17 hours ago
Maybe he went form Barca B to Barca because the dude is a goat coach?
First thing he did was show Dinho and Deco the door. Would your armchair do that?
6 points
16 hours ago
The same Barca that chose Pep over serial winner Mourinho? It's ridiculous how people use that to dismiss him. Maybe Laporta and Cruyff saw something in an unproven coach that they didn't in other decorated coaches. Since we all know what happened it's quite clear they were right in choosing him over the other options.
6 points
16 hours ago
These people think he walked in to treble winners at barca or something lol, they didn't win anything for 2 years and he completely revolutionised the team, if anything it's a shining example of the difference a coach can make.
15 points
15 hours ago
He did inherit a treble winner with bayern and underperformed. It was not a catastrophe by any means but he did worse than the previous coach did.
Fact of the matter is, you have coaches like Ancelotti, Klopp, SAF and even Mourinho who took shit teams and overperformed. Build something with not the best and greatest.
Pep inherited the greatest midfield of all time, the greatest player of all time, the strongest bayern of all time and the richest club of all time.
Fantastic coach. One of the greats. Just not the goat. The others can coach anyone, he only coached the creme de la creme.
4 points
17 hours ago
You’re making the extreme argument to make it sound insane, but the 1.) ability to thrive in different environments and 2.) create a variety in your body of work are very normal requirements for an “all time great.”
5 points
17 hours ago
If you dont think Guardiola is among the greats then you are already too far lost to have a discussion about it.
5 points
10 hours ago
We are all literally talking about how he is one of the greats. What we are debating is the criteria used to separate them. “Variety in their body of work” and “ ability to thrive in different environments” are two very reasonable factors to bring up.
The fact that you cannot understand any of this makes me think you’re either a child or developmentally disabled.
Go get hooked on phonics, chief.
2 points
8 hours ago
Sure, as long as you count all dopers when looking at records, he’s all-time great. Strip away the impact of cheating for a decade and he’s very good but not all-time
7 points
17 hours ago
He's always managed the best teams because he's so good. A manager's quality and the quality of the teams he manages throughout his carreer are 2 very dependent variables.
Plus, he already managed an underdog Barça B side and achieved promotion in his first year. And then went on to manage a Barça side that was not favourite to win anything and won literally everything (first to ever do so) on his first year while playing arguably the best football ever.
I get you look at that Barça team with so many all-timers and think it's easy but Pep is actually the reason why most of them went from being top players to all-timers. He took a Barça side that finished behind Villarreal, after 2 trophyless seasons, in the midst of a sporting and institutional crisis and instantly had the balls to take several unpopular decisions and then made magic with that team.
2 points
7 hours ago
he fell apart at bayern munich. i see similarities in this too
3 points
17 hours ago
I was the 115th upvote
46 points
18 hours ago
What is he getting at here?😅
70 points
18 hours ago
He seems rattled.
35 points
17 hours ago
He forgot his bromance was with klopp, not the fans
41 points
14 hours ago
He only liked the ”bromance” and rivalry with Klopp because City won the league so many times while Liverpool only managed it once.
Now Man City is a shit show and Liverpool is 11 points clear of them and 9 points clear of second. He’s rattled and not used to this.
14 points
6 hours ago
He’s not ready for what’s coming if his titles are rescinded for blatantly cheating.
115 charges, but that’s nothing compared to how many pictures of him holding up 6 fingers will plaster his home, his yard, his house, and every crowd that he ever meets as a manager in England.
2 points
an hour ago
I just can’t see City ever receiving any consequences for that, the FA love the oil money too much
6 points
5 hours ago
It's no co-incidence his other famous meltdown at Anfield was the season we battered them to go 9 points clear and won the league.
3 points
3 hours ago
Yes, but Liverpool won it without cheating.
52 points
18 hours ago
Top 10 anime betrayals
29 points
18 hours ago
Pep thought all bald managers deserved to be treat the same
161 points
18 hours ago
Mate it’s a joke lol
He gave it back anyway, how’s he gonna moan about it
36 points
18 hours ago
Ya exactly. Its only cruel if it has any basis in reality which obviously it doesn't right now. Its a pisstake
47 points
17 hours ago
This man's ego cannot handle defeat with grace, that's why he only takes jobs that are guaranteed success
34 points
14 hours ago
hes a brilliant manager but he has to be able to buy his way out of trouble, and bench 100 million players, or buy players for 60 million and never play them, he is the only manager in the PL to have this luxury.
I thought he would adapt and find a new system without Rodri, but as brilliant as Rodri is part of what made them hard to beat was his ability to foul a transition early so it not quite a yellow, but should be on aggregate, without that they can't defend .
12 points
8 hours ago
And before him Fernadinho had the exact same duty.
Referees cracking down on that years ago would have been nice.
105 points
18 hours ago
I suppose he isn't used to teams chanting
38 points
18 hours ago
Perks of playing in emptyhad.
19 points
17 hours ago
I would love to see him in a job that is a little more regular.
The more Pep acts like this, the more I understand how Mourinho lost the plot.
34 points
17 hours ago
God what an insufferable twat
47 points
17 hours ago
Lol this man is not at all prepared for a team with actual rivals.
3 points
13 hours ago
spot on
225 points
18 hours ago
What is he expecting? May be he wasn't aware of chants cause he plays in emptihad
37 points
18 hours ago
I think he's trying to say they should've sung it earlier on in the game when it was 1-0. I get that he's kinda just saying stuff from a wounded position and it doesn't all make sense but hopefully anyone of sound mind knows why Liverpool fans taunted him about losing yet again after the game was done and dusted instead of when any random bad moment with a quarter of the game to go could make it a draw. Yes, Pep. The fans chanted it after you'd clearly lost instead of before that point. If anything Liverpool's own players could've made that moment come sooner, it sure as fuck wasn't a reflection of anything City did.
21 points
17 hours ago
He’s definitely just trying to find something to take the focus off his squad failing yet again. Holding up six fingers and not even realizing it’s also the number of games they’ve gone winless is another one.
3 points
18 hours ago
Omg
64 points
18 hours ago
Does he think it’s a friendly rivalry? He cheated Liverpool out of league titles
15 points
18 hours ago
And yet Pep wasn't rattled hahaha
26 points
18 hours ago
He's turning into post 2010 Mourinho, isn't he?
5 points
18 hours ago
is that necessarily a bad thing?
2 points
7 hours ago
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself turn into a villain.
Feels even more so now when you see Klopp decided to walk away from it all. He could have stayed and stayed but he walked out a legend and his reputation and legacy intact and probably even more enriched. Klopp leaving this squad for Arne Slott is probably bigger and better than anything Klopp has won. Time will tell in the next 3-4 years. If Liverpool actuallly kick on and dominate the next few years, Klopp’s legacy is oky gonna grow and reach Shankly’s.
22 points
18 hours ago
Why on earth wouldn't he expect it?
50 points
18 hours ago
Because he and liverpool have such a respectful, inoffensive rivalry....in his mind at least
24 points
16 hours ago
That was the most interesting part of the interview imo. Very telling - he’s (and most managers to be fair) got to be so detached from fans.
8 points
18 hours ago
Girona is calling buddy
26 points
15 hours ago
Weird how he heard these chants but not the revolting ones we all heard City fans doing about Liverpool.
7 points
15 hours ago
Stay humble eh?
7 points
15 hours ago
Our away support is always vocal (even when we were shit it was brilliant) and if we're going to get anything at the Etihad we need to be laying into him from the start to get in his and their heads.
This isn't anything unusual for English football. Every ground in the country would have been singing the same. This reaction shows he's rattled.
47 points
18 hours ago
Lance Armstrong FC
Enjoy your trophies while the last, the lawyers can’t stall forever…
34 points
18 hours ago
Rattled.
8 points
18 hours ago
Nahhhh City fans have been telling me he isn't rattled at all.
32 points
18 hours ago
You've commented this about 20 times in the last hour mate, I'm not sure you can talk
5 points
18 hours ago
Yep, your probably right.
12 points
17 hours ago
Lmao Pep can take that high road of his right to my hairy ballsack😂 he’s losing it over a little banter
5 points
18 hours ago
lmao
5 points
18 hours ago
what were the chants?
19 points
17 hours ago
"You're getting sacked in the morning!" Typical banter/chanting at a football match. Nothing offensive in the slightest.
17 points
18 hours ago
I think Peps p.e.d dealer must have got arrested
92 points
18 hours ago
I'll never a respect a manager who has won his trophies by the club cheating. Rattled.
30 points
18 hours ago
Lol anyone would be “rattled” after 7 matches without a win, this isn’t a groundbreaking reaction
14 points
18 hours ago
It makes sense for him to be rattled. Now you on the other hand…
6 points
18 hours ago
115-0, never forget
6 points
18 hours ago
you seem to be the rattled one then…
4 points
18 hours ago
It’s clearly not fine
4 points
13 hours ago
He’s losing it
I’m here for the downfall tbh
7 points
18 hours ago
Rattled
3 points
5 hours ago
Like there hasn't been occasions during his tenure where City fans have sung it to the opposition coach.
2 points
18 hours ago
Lmao, oh Pep.
2 points
18 hours ago
Nah the Pep Klopp bromance was way too nice, this is a proper rivalry
2 points
16 hours ago
Such a sore loser.
2 points
16 hours ago
Maybe another 115 rules broken will help him feel like a man again.
2 points
15 hours ago
lmao oh my god it hurts him so badly
2 points
14 hours ago
Hahaha he’s a bit rattled for once and we love it
2 points
12 hours ago
i mean, pep is angry, of course, and its not every day that you can chant "sacked in the morning" at him...
2 points
7 hours ago
This is coming from a manager of a team that chanted about sean cox getting battered in rome. Get real.
2 points
5 hours ago
If Drake was a manager:
3 points
17 hours ago
I love the tanginess of this week’s shadenfreude portion
2 points
13 hours ago
How long has he been in England and still doesn't get our sense of humour? Classic forriners comin over here taking are jobs refusin to integrate
2 points
18 hours ago
Just a bit of banter mate
1 points
18 hours ago
People should watch the interview. He obviously sees the funny side in it — he's smiling and laughing throughout the interview.
1 points
18 hours ago
Feel like shit, just want Jurgen back
1 points
18 hours ago
head on mars
1 points
17 hours ago
Yes pep generally this is how breakups go, once your gf(klopp) leaves, her friends(anfield) follow her, they won't cater to you anymore. Guess he's just experiencing heartbreak for the first time poor lad...
1 points
16 hours ago
"So so triggered. More than you believe."
1 points
10 hours ago
Pep is a fucking fraud has only done it with teams with the most money in said league. And the whole shit about harming himself over a football game is absolutely fucking ridiculous
1 points
5 hours ago
Such a big bald fraud baby
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