Ped Guardiola...

Ped? Typo or Fruedian slip?!

To be fair, he's not saying anything any other manager isn't. And Mourinho is obviously numero uno when it comes to complaining about nothing. I do wish Pep would stop saying how the title isn't over though. He could start himself up front the rest of the season and they'll still win it with games to spare

"Guardiola said he decided not to promote any of his players from the elite development squad - the under-23 side - because they played against Swansea on Friday.

He said they would have been wasting time sitting on the bench at Burnley when they could have been getting match time with the Under-23s instead."

"However, he also named three inexperienced players aged 21 or under - defenders Tosin Adarabioyo and Oleksandr Zinchenko, plus midfielder Brahim Diaz."

As Gary Nev said he could have brought in a kid ,  give him an experiance  ,  let him savour the moment and mix with the stars and big him up in interviewes saying his devolopement in recent months etc deserved it.

But no he decided to make it about him,

Bit of a story about nothing isn't it? Seems he just felt the U23's would rather have the chance of playing in a match on the Friday instead of sitting on a bench on Saturday.

And why couldnt both have happened ?

LOAD OF HOT AIR ABOUT NADA

don't see the point of taking someone just to sit on a bench tbh.

What a bell , your bald and you will never be happy pepsi

You could say that about an old pro mover but a young trainee would love the experiance.

If the game had panned out well and ye were 3 up or something imagine giving one of those kids 15 mins.

As it happened that was not possible but the thrill of being on the bench for the first time and maybe the only could have changed their lives.

Selfish to try make a point from 15 points clear imo.

City had 3 youngsters on the bench already, why would this extra youngster have got the minutes above the 3 already there?

Some poeple have too much time on their hands and rampant imaginations ffs

Didnt need to get the minutes just the experience.

Make someones day dont be a selfish bollox.

Says the man who spends his life on the United thread.

Some people have too much time on their hands ,,   

Really ?

when was the last time i was on the utd thread,WRONGGGGGGGGGGGG

pond life

Lukas Nmecha would have been the obvious one as he's been training with the first team squad, but he's not fit enough atm

Just before Dolph and Peter destroyed you about a week ago.

You were our biggest poster number wise before that.

utter bell pep , the oil rig and the mickeys lovers entwined

In fairness it would have been hard to come back after that and thats not said trying to goad you back.

Stay away it was taking over your life.

All to Rommell obviously .

Can't be that unusual for a club not to name all 7 subs? Not sure on that though.

MOSTLY TAKING THE MICK REALLY,but was being an a***hole too-no doubt,learn,move on

"Modern football sometimes makes me sad"

Yer not the only one Ped.

End of thread...........

Think i remember someone or other disbanding their youth team and then not having enough squad members to fill all subs a few years ago mover but think it was a yo yo team tbh.

IT WONT HURT ANY PLAYER TO NOT HAVE SAT ON A FCKN BENCH FOR 90 MINS

Please we know your love for the pep and the oil rig knows no bounds

OK Rom,  glad you wised up.  You were,nt the worst.

Two lovers entwined passed me by - the SMITHS 1984

lot of the problems of todays footy and life in general is that we elevate kids/youths too soon

and heaven knows your miserable now

Wont have hurt any but wont have helped any either.

od,one thing im not missing-the wit and wisdom of anxious

you was happy in the haze of a drunken hour but heaven knows your miserable nowww

a lot of bands have passed me by down the years,just how it goes,thank **** the smiths and oasis were on that fckn boat

Manchesters Finest The Stone Roses - this is the one , played at Old Trafford many times

Or in my Mersey Paradise

In my day Rommell players were regular starters at 17 , 18 or 19 if good enough.

I think its nonsense that these players get a few minutes here and there now .

Thats why they fall through the grades .

Anyway RIP the Busby Babes The Flowers of Manchester

Pretty amazing that we came back and won the european cup within a decade anx, 

And in an age when you couldnt just go out and buy the best players,

Laughable that he said he didn't have 'anybody else', that's why he's getting stick. If he hadn't said that there wouldn't be an issue.
He has a system that he works on daily with players and if youth players aren't working with the squad day to day then he is not going to use them. That's understandable. I don't think he'd play any player not familiar with his system. It's vital to him that all players are familiar with it. He should have just said that.


United play the likes of Rashford and Lingard, yes, but they are not good enough to compete at the very top level. They are out of their depth at that level.

Players are still regular starters at 17, 18, 19 if good enough but in the modern day of moneyball, very few are. Been like that for years now.

Back in the day, clubs didn't have 11 world class players or the money to go out and buy them, so they played young players because the more experienced players could carry them and the standard wasn't as high. Different era. You can't blood inexperienced youngsters in your first team and hope to stay at the very top level. Those days are long gone.

The absolute state of the cringey mawkish sentimental pish from the OP here !
It's beginning to look like the Rags are steadily morphing into their 'hated' Mersey brethren this season with their morality tales, 'istry lessons and constant excuses.
These traits of cours are perfectly embodied by their eye gouging, misogynist bossman who's go to move anytime he doesn't get a result is to whinge, deflect and effectively say 'Its NEVER my fault' ... how familiar

we have no money ,no wages, no player , no subs , please protect my artists , did city say this when de jong put ben arfa out for a year