IMHO The performances are not similar there's a plan and organization with tactics and formations changed during the game unlike MP who just sent his team out in hope. There were so many poor performances under MP and yes a few good ones but it was when he was forced, through non availability, that he changed from his beloved 442. The first half of his first season was wonderful, on the back of Mancini's organization, and the final run in won the PL after Liverpool and Rodgers fucked up. Lets face it the League Cup is not a difficult cup to win and the second one was won on penalties.
Maybe the youth who should be pushing on into the first team aren't good enough? There are some great prospects in the U18 but its too early for them.
IMHO if MP was still the manager we would be ins serious trouble, Pep is getting far more out of this squad than MP ever did, bearing in mind that many of the key players are older. Look how Silva is enjoying his football again the improvement in Sterling and Yaya looking a stone slimmer, able to do a job for us AK has been the most improved player in the squad at CH
Yes Liverpool really did throw it away didn't they! Winning something like 14 out of the last 16 games.
Did Mancini win it because United fucked up?
They fucked up far greater than Liverpool did.
I rarely hear fans belittling Mancini's league win.
No he won it because we were the best side. Both titles were won on 89 points.
We have no Idea what impact the entire squad and manager knowning Pep was coming had on things.
YaYa for example is paid £200k a week to be a professsional footballer he chose to get unfit, a manager who is effectively a caretaker can do nothing about that.
Blame the fucking player.
Pep has sorted that, he made the sort of sweeping changes that Pellegrini never could and we'll never know if he would have done the same thing.
Sterling started off excellently, we started the last season like a dream. Playing excellent football, only to be decimated by injury.
I've repeatedly said Pep is much better and you can see a plan forming. I just don't apply double standards like many seem to.
Had Pellegrini set us up like Pep did at Leicester, or sit dumbfounded like Pep did at Goodison he'd have been torn apart.
Pep has shown far greater imagination and the future looks bright, but let's not kid ourselves. We really are doing no better than last season. I believe we win finish very strong, and Pep will have improved us greatly, but his struggles with last seasons squad plus £100 million plus of talent shows that perhaps Pellegrini wasn't just wasting our talent and we finished where we should.