no. its not spanish anyway, its catalan.

from barcastuff tweet feeds.

oh my, what a bad week.. losing liga, CL and now losing the mastermind..

Guardiola: "You can expect the best from Tito. He's more than skilled, the players know him... I think the club made a great choice."

Guardiola: "I was just the voice of the ideas Tito and I developed together."

Guardiola: "The players have today trained as beasts. It's a good sign. They'll feel bad for one night. They're in good hands."

Guardiola: "Meeting with Chelsea in February? I did not meet with them. That would have been a lack of respect towards the club."



pique and cesc reaction...

hmm....a great lost for Barcelona....but i rly hope he will come bck to us after a year, mayb this short break is sort of like refreshment for him ....i"ll nvr forget the success he bring as a player or manager...he is the specia one for the club...a man who stick to his football philosophy every single game....

football manager, the game in real life.

pep will leave after this season rite?
so copa final is still under pep rite?

yes. last game with pep as a coach.

yep, this summer. he's still the manager for the rest of the season.

this is another level of sadness compared to being eliminated in ucl or losing to classico

Guardiola: "there will come a day when 'I want to go back' and return. In the meantime I will do something else"

anytime pep. anytime!

he's like the new mourinho
next stop will be QPR or CTID

Manager come and go, but legend lives forever. Next season is beginning of new era for Barca.

Thank You Pep.

WOW!! That came out of nowhere.

I thought Tito was going to quit!
But instead he is the one taking over.

A happy ending in the end.
His right hand man taking over..



This post has been edited by barca96: Apr 27 2012, 09:34 PM

sayonara.. great coach for 4 years indeed.. no doubt with 6 cup win !!!
hope can see more challenge from tito..

Lead to what goal? You mean the Real penalty that that Ronaldo scored in the 6th minute? Yes, they didn't park the bus for the first 5 minutes. Neither did Chelsea. So what's your point? Bayern lead Real for 5 minutes, then went behind, then finally level at 2-1 into penalties. So, beside the first 5 minutes (which Real were actually on top), what other points in the match that Bayern were LEADING?

Do you actually know what parking the bus means? Or do you just throw it around because it sounds fancy? Parking the bus IS NOT the the same as playing defensive. Chelsea played defensive counter attack because its the only way to score against Barcelona. No team in the world can match the midfield possession of Barca's tiki-taka, not Real,not Bayern and not certainly Chelsea. Chelsea played classic 4-5-1/4-3-3 against Barca but flattened to the max due to the midfield pressure of tiki-taka. Only in the second half of the second leg did Chelsea played something like 6-3-0 (A.K.A Parking The Bus) when they were LEADING on away goal AND a man down AND without 2 first-choice center-back. You're confusing defensive counter-attacking with Parking The Bus.

This post has been edited by pokwang: Apr 27 2012, 10:33 PM

Yeah I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Honestly I was close to crying when I heard the official statements. Hard to explain why. Probably because this team has Pep's name all over it. Once the man leave it's like we are lost. Yeah we have candidates like Bielsa and Blanc who are also good footballing minds in their own rights, but no one is similar to Pep's. One of my concerns is about the continuity of our policy to promote more youth players into the squad.

Surprisingly this club made another great decision when very few people could think about it. I really think with Tito in charge, we are still in the 'appropriate' hands.

I'm sad with Pep leaving, but I'm excited to continue the journey under Tito. So yeah, its actually a happy ending for everybody

if barcelona didn't lose to chelsea, pep would not have quit.

how much different that one defeat makes in the end.

he wanted to quit in October la.

He has actually notified the club that he could not go on since October last year. Nothing to do with Chelsea game.

Because of this, I highly doubt that Pep will take on another managerial job at other club. The talks that he will go to England are just rumors.

This post has been edited by matyrze: Apr 28 2012, 12:18 AM

LOL this picture