If Mourinho was at City....

its grim up north said:
Sorry but I donated my season ticket to less fortunate workmates on quite a few occasions when Mr Pearce was weaving his magic.
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So you let friends use it you didn't bin it off? Not quite the same as what some are saying on here. I still have nightmare over that Pearce season
 
If Pep was at the swamp he would of improved Rashford and Martial, but the likes of Jones would now be at West Ham. He improved Kolorov last season but still realised he wasnt good enough and went and replaced him. Just imagine for a second if Jesus and Sañe were at the swamp, they would be The next Pele and Ronaldo. Thankfully they are at gods own.
 
foggy1974 said:
If Pep was at the swamp he would of improved Rashford and Martial, but the likes of Jones would now be at West Ham. He improved Kolorov last season but still realised he wasnt good enough and went and replaced him. Just imagine for a second if Jesus and Sañe were at the swamp, they would be The next Pele and Ronaldo. Thankfully they are at gods own.
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Aleks asked to leave,he wanted to play LB with Dzeko at Roma and pep said he doesn't keep players that don't want to be here
 
I was more implying that Pep saw where the weakness in the team were and attempted to rectify them. Walker has been amazing, but Mendy has been unfortunate with injury. Peg usually inherits a very good side and tweaks it a bit in his second season. He doesn't stay at clubs more than 3 seasons, due to the way he treats players and there are only so many times you can wins them up to get a positive reaction.
If hypothetically both Pep and Peg left their clubs at the end of the season, we would be in a much better place with our squad, compared to those rags.
 
He would win us a trophy or two but his stature is fading somewhat I used to rate him very highly but the gouging and treatment of the Chelsea doctor confirmed he is a egotistical tosspot. His record puts him amongst the greats of the game unfortunately.
 
I wouldnt be paying 40 pound a ticket to see the turgid shite football he would demand.I would rather have BFS or even Pullis. :-)
 
If Mourinho was at City?
I'd like to say we'd be totally unbiased and see things much the same as we do now but lets be fair we'd spin as much as we can the way rags do and compartmentalise... as the alternative would be to lose all hope, some really are deluded for others it's just a coping mechanism.

I'm pretty sure if some were honest they are now annoyed they defended him at that start of the season because they were scoring and they were able to say "oh he's too defensive is he? what say yee now berties?" but they've come to realise they were overlooking:

The level of opposition,
The way they play/start games was more of an indicator of the philosophy of the team,
Most of those goals came late and centred around Lukaku.

There's no excuse for the way the press has spun this though, they've let them off so lightly on so many things(the money they've spent vs the football they play especially... in fact I don't recall their spend being mention in a negative light much at all), we'd be being slaughtered.
 
Tom_mcfc said:
A lot of shite along the lines off "I would bin my season ticket off"

No you wouldn't. Did you bin it under Pearce? Or more recently Mancini was boring when he first came in, did you bin it off then? It might be dull, boring to watch but I imagine not one person would give up their ticket and would carry on supporting us as normal. Just thank our lucky stars he isn't our manager
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100%, we're the luckiest fans in world football having Pep and playing football we could only dream about when Pearce was manager,but I would still turn up if Donald fuckin Trump was manager,you support the team not the manager or football style at any given time.
 
rabby said:
100%, we're the luckiest fans in world football having Pep and playing football we could only dream about when Pearce was manager,but I would still turn up if Donald fuckin Trump was manager,you support the team not the manager or football style at any given time.
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Yep we should also remember the Pep era like all good things will eventually come to an end. I would love to think someone fresh could come in and be just as good but we will probably have a dip much like Bayern are going through now, we'll probably have someone more defensive and be yearning for the Pep days back for a while. That's why I don't understand some peoples attitudes in the matchday threads, if they aren't happy with what they are seeing now and filled with optimism when will they ever enjoy the ride at all?
 
Pellegrini was bad enough. But at least he produced a season of great attacking football before being uncovered.

There have been two occasions where I was ready to chuck it in, one just at the moment Franny Lee stepped in to challenge Swales, two, toward the end of Pearce's reign. I didn't see why we had been through all that shit, for decades only to come out the other side, at long last, playing beautiful football, under Keegan & then go right back, to the cockney Frank fucking Clark, with no ambition.

After all the build up, if we went back to playing anti-football under that, miserable fucking **** & spent half a billion doing it, I would just fuck off.

I can't understand how the rags' public accept it.
 
My United supporting mate detested Mourinho with a passion when at Chelsea. All of a sudden he was the new messiah when appointed at the swamp. I'm loving it now as the knives are starting to get sharpened with each passing week, patience is wearing thin with the messiah.
 
I'd rather this article at the end of the season after we've crushed the ****s to dust and broken PEG's spirit but enjoyed it all the same ;)

I think we only realise how lucky we are because we've had Guardiola at the club and have seen (just a glimpse of) the amazing football he brings. Once upon a time had Mou come to City, we would have trotted out the 'he's a ****, but he's our ****' trope. So happy we've never had to.
 
I think it's the natural pessimist in me, but I do think some of that article is a bit premature (albeit fun to read as a City fan!). I am not a fan of Mourinho and never will be, I don't like the way he uses confrontation and detriment of others to create a mentality in his squad and I'm not a fan of reactive tactics, as again, it seeks out weaknesses of others rather than strengths of his own.

He still is (or at least still could be) an effective coach though and his style
does bring results. Bear in mind, he wanted Stones before we signed him. He would have turned out a completely different player, but he could still have managed him effectively.

There are some fine margins in there too. An injury to Stones or Fernandinho and I think we could potentially struggle still and it's next year that I think we will be truly at our best. I don't think we will, it's just a possibility.

What I would say is that even if Mourinho was to win the title this year (I don't think he will, but I don't think it's over yet either), I still think Guardiola will win the war in that he will change a lot of the discourse about football in this country. We are already seeing pundits starting to realise just what they are watching and whilst Mourinho will always have some plaudits for the trophies he's won, he will never be known as a pioneer or an innovative coach. He could win another trophy, the difference is he could never win one playing the way we are and he knows that himself. That's what's remarkable about what Guardiola does - the way he does it.
 
The blue phantom said:
Was there really any City fans who ever wanted this piece of shit?.. He's been an horrible bastard for years.
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I remember when Chelsea were wining the title in Pellegrini's second season there were a few threads saying we should go for Mourinho, though a lot of people disagreed.
I don't know how I would have reacted if he became our manager. I have long disliked the guy with a passion and didn't want him here however I do get behind our managers , though there have not been any I have disliked for many years but a few who I thought incompetent.
My guess is I would have grudgingly supported him for a while but if things were going badly turn on him quickly.
 
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