We all know now the fall outs etcetera behind the scenes and why he had to be moved on but Mancini will always be a legend in my and a lot of other City fan's eyes.
We were floundering around going nowhere fast with Hughes in charge. An ex rag, millions spent and no further forward really.
Mancini came in and gave us our pride back. He made us more professional, harder to beat and won us our first trophy in 35 years and our first title in 44. He promised to tear down that banner and did and rattled Ferguson like no other manager I have seen. He also gave us the 6-1.
I don't care what he has done since or will do in the future he was the right man at the right time for this club and did a great job.
First time in my lifetime I felt like we had a leader at the helm who lead on merit. This man had won 4 titles in a row at Inter or something and he came in and in a very short time you could see the discipline rub off on the pitch.We all know now the fall outs etcetera behind the scenes and why he had to be moved on but Mancini will always be a legend in my and a lot of other City fan's eyes.
We were floundering around going nowhere fast with Hughes in charge. An ex rag, millions spent and no further forward really.
Mancini came in and gave us our pride back. He made us more professional, harder to beat and won us our first trophy in 35 years and our first title in 44. He promised to tear down that banner and did and rattled Ferguson like no other manager I have seen. He also gave us the 6-1.
I don't care what he has done since or will do in the future he was the right man at the right time for this club and did a great job.
failed go through group stages of ucl 2 times, his tenure not success but underachievement for me. our champions league record improved since we sacked him. none of big european clubs wanted him and he failed to win turkish and russian leagues with best teams of respective countries with galata and zenith. sustaining global dominant vision with him was almost impossible because he and his fanbase has inferiority to ferguson and local mindset rather than global. also he damaged our image with signing thug type of players like tevez, balotelli, de jong and ec. thankfully we are now more elite and global club with ferran and txiki and signing nice players like jesus, sane, bernardo, stones not thugs. i now can better notice that he was/is very similar to mourinho and both of their lovers have inferiority complex and hatred to ferguson and pep respectively. both of them works with raiola as well. both of them and their fans insults and bullies their superior rivals as "baconface" or "bald fraud".
we finished below ajax with 3 points (with 3 draws) in 2012-13 ucl group. also in 2011-12 ucl group we finished below napoli.
No City fan really bothered about the CL at that stage. The FA cup win and subsequent league title were far more important. Those 2 seasons were fantastic.
This City fan still couldn't give a rats arse about the Champions league and i dont think i ever will to be honest.
League, FA Cup and League Cup in that order and it always will be.
The Champions league is an absolute lottery decided by refs, cheats and whoever UEFA want to win it.
I’m in agreement with you mate. Never liked the competition when we weren’t in it, so not going to be an hypocrite and say I like it now; but I’d love us to win it just to shut the rest of the world up.
Mancini was very unlucky in CL. It’s unfair to beat him with that stick. Didn’t we amass 10 points in the first campaign and failed to qualify? The first time 10 points wasn’t enough.