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[Albion] Pep - ‘Brighton are like a Michelin starred restaurant’
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I love Pep. He's the greatest manager of the modern football era and for me personally, the best ever. He is an absolute football genius but at the same time he is utterly bonkers!
I think he sees the whole world through a football pitch and struggles to understand anything outside of it including how to communicate at times. He is a mad genius.
I think he sees the whole world through a football pitch and struggles to understand anything outside of it including how to communicate at times. He is a mad genius.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
I will be very disappointed if Haaland doesn't get a run out. He is one of the best footballers at the moment and I'd like to be able to say in future that 'I saw him play'. Just don't let him score.
Icy Gull
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That was some restaurant apparently
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
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De Zerbi may be better, give him the players City have and I'll pretty well guarantee he would have the won the CL by now
Pep keeps f***ing it up
Mad as my Mother
Well-known member
I'll take one of the best managers ever, saying these things all day long, even if they are some kind of mind game!
Taybha
Whalewhine
I think I'd prefer it if he said we were like Divals and the last chef drowned himself in the Stroganoff
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Pep is right, De Zerbi introduced his style to Sassuolo and helped to change how football is played in Italy, it’s no longer the defensive game we associate with the Italians. You can see teams trying to copy our patterns of play over here now, granted usually comically badly, but he is having an influence. It’s amazing really, I hope he’s here for a long time and keeps ahead of the opposition tactically.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Pep and his compliments can do one. It's about time we had a 'Bored of Brighton now' media backlash.
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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He’s always very complimentary of teams he tends to bend over, in fact he’s nearly always complementary, makes it hard for teams to get riled up against City because they appear as ‘Mr Nice guy’
Nice to hear, but If I see Haaland and de Bruyne in that starting line up he can go f**k himself.
Nice to hear, but If I see Haaland and de Bruyne in that starting line up he can go f**k himself.
Machiavelli
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Yes so, contrary to what he said, he actually meant that we are like a three-starred Michelin restaurant, and arguably the most renowned three-starred Michelin restaurant.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
He's not yet transformed a team who haven't already been winning. Frank RiJkaard won consecutive La Liga's and a Champions League after 7 years without a trophy for Barca before Pep took over, and it was him who bought young players like Iniesta, Messi and Valdes into the team. Pep took over a winning side. Likewise Jupp Heynckes won the league and CL before Pep took over - another winning machine. Pellegrini and Mancini won the PL before Pep took over. Great manager to sustain success, but he's never had the challenge of creating success from very little.
Nah, he's setting us up for a thumping
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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Find it difficult to take this kind of stuff at face value.
I know all that but no other manager has influenced the modern game like he has in the last 30 years and Barca were actually a bit of a mess when he took over. No one thought the likes of Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets would be anywhere near as good as he made them when they were coming through either. Messi was clearly a special talent but Pep elevated him beyond what anyone thought he could be. That Barca team were the greatest ever. Their influence extended to a division three club in England called Brighton and Hove Albion and many, many more clubs worldwide. His Barca, Bayern and City teams play the best football I've ever seen and to stay at the top as he has done over such a long period of time in three different leagues is pretty remarkable and never been done before. Only Michels, Cruyff and Sachi compare for overall achievement in my eyes.
I'm not expecting everyone to agree with me but I'm a massive Pep fanboy, no one will convince me otherwise!
They are friendly acquaintances for sure. RDZ visited City a while ago (2 years
), to see how they train and to discuss footie tactics with Pep.
Yes it's mind games but that aside, I think he's very like RDZ, a football-obsessed perfectionist. No, he hasn't done it without a tiny budget and a good base to start from, but I suspect he could.
I heard they were friends before this year (maybe as Pep had a couple of spells at Brescia?), and didn't RDZ spend some time getting some mentoring from him at one point? Either way I don't know that De Zerbi would be the manager he is in the style he is if Guardiola hadn't come along first.
I also heard that RDZ asked him about the Brighton job, and Pep bigged Brighton up to him and advised him to take it. For that alone, I can forgive anything.
(When RDZ does one day move on, I could see City being the best fit. Wonder if there is some succession planning going on there?)
But thank you Pep if you played any part in influencing Roberto to come here.
Now if you could please just put out your third eleven tomorrow and I'll like you even more...
I heard they were friends before this year (maybe as Pep had a couple of spells at Brescia?), and didn't RDZ spend some time getting some mentoring from him at one point? Either way I don't know that De Zerbi would be the manager he is in the style he is if Guardiola hadn't come along first.
I also heard that RDZ asked him about the Brighton job, and Pep bigged Brighton up to him and advised him to take it. For that alone, I can forgive anything.
(When RDZ does one day move on, I could see City being the best fit. Wonder if there is some succession planning going on there?)
But thank you Pep if you played any part in influencing Roberto to come here.
Now if you could please just put out your third eleven tomorrow and I'll like you even more...
AmexRuislip
Retired Spy 🕵️♂️
While we we're riding on RDZ's crest of a wave.....