Guardiola

[Visca El Barca]

Fb Iniesta: "I want to thank the coach and his team for these years, without forgetting the season isn't over yet http://bit.ly/IoPgG3"

[Brombi]

[Mander]

Vi skal blot have en træner, der passer helt perfekt til vores forståelsesramme.

Ingen vil hævde, at den ramme er en statisk størrelse, i og med ingen ønsker at holdet står stille. Jeg mener bare, at den ramme vil have godt af at blive vendt lidt op og ned på, nu Guardiolas indsats er overstået og sæsonens samlede resultat ender skuffende. Villanova er i den forbindelse et konservativt valg, i ordets negative betydning. Jeg tror ganske enkelt ikke på, at han kommer til at foretage de hensigtsmæssige justeringer. (Som ikke er, blot at forsøge at genskabe Guardiolas formel, da den fungerede helt sublimt.)

Guardiola var selv et kontroversielt valg, efter Rijkaard, fordi man havde lejlighed at tage en risiko. Valget var rigtigt, selvom vi - ganske rigtigt - var nogen der var lidt skeptiske. Denne gang foretager man et lidt uopfindsomt valg, selve personen var måske overraskende, på et tidspunkt hvor man burde have benyttet lejligheden til at vende lidt op og ned på klubben.

I praksis kan Villanova overraske positivt, f.eks. ved nogle kloge indkøb i sommerpausen.

Nej, naturligvis skal vi ikke stå stille. Jeg tror ikke, at der er nogen, der vil påstå, at vi skal undlade at tweake lidt på tingene - hvis alt var perfekt, havde vi jo vundet hele molevitten igen i år.

Jeg er enig i, at valget er konservativt, men jeg er uenig i, hvor negativt det er. Jeg tror nu nok, at han skal lave de justeringer, der er brug for; men han kommer ikke til at vende lidt op og ned på klubben. Det tror jeg nu heller ikke, at der er brug for. Ikke med så megen succes over de senere år. Dengang man tog chancen med Pep, var der jo netop et andet miljø, hvor man ikke havde en vinderopskrift, som du også selv påpeger. Some amerikanerne siger: if it ain't broke (on the whole), don't fix it.

[Visca El Barca]

Tw Cuenca: "A Great Person. A great Master. #thanksPep" [@cuencaisaac] #fcblive

[emo]

- Det er jo lige meget, hvor han tager hen, så vil det være et skridt nedad.

- Når man har taget verdens bedste klubhold og gjort det endnu bedre, kan man kun tage et skridt tilbage, siger Morten Bruun.

Så sagde han noget jeg kunne lide, ham Bruun.!

[JonasV]

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De sidste år har været en smuk drøm, jo!

[Visca El Barca]

- Det er jo lige meget, hvor han tager hen, så vil det være et skridt nedad.

- Når man har taget verdens bedste klubhold og gjort det endnu bedre, kan man kun tage et skridt tilbage, siger Morten Bruun.

Så sagde han noget jeg kunne lide, ham Bruun.!

Hvor har du det fra?

[Visca El Barca]

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De sidste år har været en smuk drøm, jo!

Jep, skulle lige til at poste videoen :). Jeg har følt nogen gange, at vi har taget tingene for givet. Jeg er dog bange for, at vi i den kommende tid vil forstå, hvor unikt dette hold og denne træner var.

[Visca El Barca]

Tw Dani Alves: "We feel bad and can now only thank Pep for all he has given us, not only footballwise but also personally." #fcblive

Tw Alves: "It's a sad day because of the decision of PEP, someone who has always treated us as a son."

[Visca El Barca]

Rosell (president): "Thanks Pep, for having perfected our football philosophy that never again will be under discussion." #fcblive

Rosell (president): "Thanks Pep, for having represented the club in such an examplary way." #fcblive

[JonasV]

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De sidste år har været en smuk drøm, jo!

Jep, skulle lige til at poste videoen :). Jeg har følt nogen gange, at vi har taget tingene for givet. Jeg er dog bange for, at vi i den kommende tid vil forstå, hvor unikt dette hold og denne træner var.

Ja, ved præcis hvad du mener. Hvilket både er forfærdeligt og fantastisk.

[Visca El Barca]

"I don't know how Arsenal fans feel after the protracted, sometimes disingenuous, nature of his transfer but you have to feel some sympathy for Fabregas," sympathises David Wall. "He can't win anything at Arsenal so he goes to the most-winning-est team in the world, but his arrival coincides with their least successful season (in terms of winning major trophies) in about the past four years as well as the departure of the manager responsible for much of that success, potentially followed by a period of uncertainty and where they are over-taken as the dominant force in Spain and Europe by a resurgent Real. Will that guy ever win a league title? So, sympathy...or schadenfreude."

Lidt sjovt.

[Muddi12345]

Drenge, jeg har lige to ting:

Først, er der nogen der kan give mig linket til Lionel Messis officielle facebook side, hvor han har postet sin hilsen til Guardiola idag?

Anden ting, på vej hjem kom jeg til at tænke på noget, men jeg ved ikk om det er urealistisk.. Guardiola har tidligere udtrykt sig positivt om italiensk fodbold. Kunne det tænkes, at han holder et sabbatår, hvorefter han bliver forenet med Luis Enrique i Roma? Guardiola som styrmand og Enrique som assistent? Tanken strejfede mig og tænkte, at det muligvis godt kunne lade sig gøre.. Han vil jo højst sandsynligt få en masse tilbud alle mulige steder fra i hans sabbatår..

[Visca El Barca]

'I have not spoken to Chelsea,' insists Barcelona's Pep Guardiola



Sid Lowe in Madrid and Dominic Fifield
guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 April 2012 18.04 BST
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Pep Guardiola will leave Barcelona at the end of the season but he has no intention of joining another team, ending speculation over a move to Chelsea or even to the England national side.

The Barcelona coach, who will remain in charge until after the Copa del Rey final on 25 May, when he will be replaced by his current assistant, Tito Vilanova, denied having spoken to Roman Abramovich about taking over at Stamford Bridge. He will instead take a break from the game. He did not, though, rule out the possibility of coaching elsewhere in the future.

Guardiola announced his departure at a press conference at the Camp Nou on Friday afternoon. He insisted that the decision, which he first took in the late autumn, was motivated by the need to ease pressure on him and is not a prelude to taking another coaching job.

"Four years is an eternity at Barcelona," Guardiola said. "I am the coach who has the third most number of games in the history of the club – that tells you how difficult it is here. Time wears everything down. I could not go on. Coming here day after day, over and over again, wears you out. A coach needs energy to be at his best and the only way to get that back is to take a break and distance myself [from here]. I needed to get away from it all.

"Sooner or later, I might coach again, but I don't know when," the 41-year-old continued. "At the moment I am interested in other things: there is more beyond football. Life will take me where it takes me." Asked if he had spoken to Abramovich in Paris in late February, as had been reported in the Spanish media, Guardiola responded: "No. That would have been a lack of respect to the club."

Guardiola began the press conference by saying: "I want people to know that this is not easy for me," before going on to explain that the decision had been taken in the autumn. "Between the end of October and the start of December I told the sporting director and the president that I thought my time at the club was very close to its end. But I could not tell the players at the time because we still had to compete. It would have been a mess if I had done."

He added: "I reached a point where I could have carried on as a coach but not in the way that a Barcelona coach should. I feel profoundly sorry, from the very deepest part of me, that I no longer have that energy that I once did. I have too much consideration for my players to carry on without that enthusiasm. I am so grateful to them: it has been a privilege to train them. They have turned ideas into reality on the pitch many times and there is no greater joy for a coach than that."

Abramovich has long admired Guardiola's achievements with Barcelona, as well as the style in which his team has swept all before them during most of his four-year tenure in Catalonia. Indeed, having sacked André Villas-Boas in the first week of March and with the Barça manager having yet to pronounce upon his future at that point, there was a hope within the London club's hierarchy that Guardiola might move to Chelsea this summer.

Those aspirations were quickly rendered optimistic at best given Guardiola's clear desire to enjoy a period away from the game. Abramovich could yet revisit his potential appointment in the future, though Chelsea can now eliminate the two-times European Cup winner from their list of candidates to succeed Villas-Boas on a permanent basis at the end of this season.

The issue of the next appointment will only formally be addressed in the summer once it is clear whether Chelsea have qualified to compete in next year's Champions League, with the credentials of managers such as Laurent Blanc and Athletic Bilbao's Marcelo Bielsa to be scrutinised.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012 ... -guardiola

[Visca El Barca]

På alle måder er det en æra der slutter, og desværre ikke på en god måde. Vi taber både C.L og La Liga, vi fejler i 3 afgørende kampe på en uge. Men det er ikke det værste. Det værste er, at Pep stopper og at Abi bliver syg. To virkelig Barca legender, der begge er tabt ( I Abis tilfælde er der dog håb). Det er på alle måder en trist uge og har været en trist sæson synes jeg. Den startede med to grimme kampe mod Real, med masser af kontroverser, så har vi haft rigtig mange skader, dommerkendelser der er gået imod os, alvorlige skader til spillerene, Titos sygdom og Abis sygdom.

Virkelig en skidt sæson .