Past Managers you would have liked to see at City

sir baconface said:
Yup. If the old piss can was ours, we’d probably have grown to love him for what he achieved, warts and all. It grieves me to say it.
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There is no doubt about it,he created a monster in Trafford.Any Blue that claims they didn't dream of such a dynasty for our club is either lying or mad.
Despite his track record of moving on with his previous clubs.......I had high hopes Pep may have been the man to provide us with a little bit of similar.
 
FantasyIreland said:
There is no doubt about it,he created a monster in Trafford.Any Blue that claims they didn't dream of such a dynasty for our club is either lying or mad.
Despite his track record of moving on with his previous clubs.......I had high hopes Pep may have been the man to provide us with a little bit of similar.
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Me too. Pep will leave us with incredible memories but not a dynasty, I fear.

It may take a new face to return us to the summit but will we ever see the likes of peak Merlin, Yaya, Aguero, Fernandinho, Zab, Tevez and Vinny in the same team again? That ship has sailed. Where Bacon excelled for many years was in continuously refreshing his squad to keep things more or less seamless.

Some posters talk of us being in transition. I don’t recall that word being mentioned too often during the GPC’s reign. (He did allow standards to slip at the very end though.)
 
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sir baconface said:
Me too. Pep will leave us with incredible memories but not a dynasty, I fear.

It may take a new face to return us to the summit but will we ever see the likes of peak Merlin, Yaya, Aguero, Fernandinho, Zab, Tevez and Vinny in the same team again? That ship has sailed. Where Bacon excelled for many years was in continuously refreshing his squad to keep things more or less seamless.

Some posters talk of us being in transition. I don’t recall that word being mentioned too often during the GPC’s reign. (He did allow standards to slip at the very end though.)
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He managed the Rags superbly,he wasn't faultless by any means,but its doubtful anyone will better such.He also got lucky as fuck with that bunch of kids....! but credit again,he trusted them and it paid off.
 
FantasyIreland said:
He managed the Rags superbly,he wasn't faultless by any means,but its doubtful anyone will better such.He also got lucky as fuck with that bunch of kids....! but credit again,he trusted them and it paid off.
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I believe that success in any walk of life usually has an element of being in the right place at the right time. Then you have to make the most of it, of course!
 
Baconface picked his assistants well - changing them allowed the rags to evolve and not get stale for quite a while. None of them became great managers in their own right though.

On managers I thought Kendall's Everton team of the 80's were awesome and it is a crying shame that the red dippers ruined things for them. I was excited when Kendall became manager but wish he had brought in the likes of Trevor Steven and Kevin Sheedy rather than Heath and Wayne Clarke
 
Bill Shankley was keen on moving to City from Huddersfield. We had McDowell and Poyser already past their sell-by date. Instead he went to Liverpool.
 
Ferguson? Love him?? No, really not. Like him? No, not.
Respect him, yes. I always respected him. He was interested in one thing: winning. And he turned United into a winning machine, even when they weren't necessarily particularly good. Interestingly, what Keane criticises him for as a weakness was precisely his strength (but of course Keane wouldn't be able to see that in a million years). He wasn't loyal to players. He cared nothing about a player based on what he'd done in the past. He was only loyal to a certain idea he had of United as a club. Everything was at the service of that. He made perhaps only one exception, and that is Cantona. Any other player would have been out the door. He was always looking ahead, anticipating (until the end, when his own ego took over, to take the title back from City, and leave his club in disarray), and thinking, right, who might I need to replace in this position?
The manager that I would have loved to see at Maine Road? As others have said: Clough. Clough. And Clough again. He would have loved it there, too.
 
always respected brian clough and was a great manager. won titles and won in europe in the mighty liverpool years
but i was digging around on youtube and found this interview with clive anderson and he does not hold back about the hillsborough disaster and who he blames 3.30 into the clip

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Clive Anderson show circa 1994​

 
mccity said:
Controversial one. What if Ferguson came here instead?
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Swales would have sacked him. I think he went five years at the rags without a trophy and the fans were lobbying to replace him. He also lost a derby 5-1 to us. No way Swales would have stuck with him he'd have been gone
 
ancoats said:
always respected brian clough and was a great manager. won titles and won in europe in the mighty liverpool years
but i was digging around on youtube and found this interview with clive anderson and he does not hold back about the hillsborough disaster and who he blames 3.30 into the clip

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Clive Anderson show circa 1994​

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Cloughie all day long, with this team how many European Cups would he have won ?
 
The art of football management reminds me of what the late Richie Benaud said about successful cricket captaincy - "90% luck and 10% talent. But don't try it without the talent!"
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
I liked clough when Forest manager. Rumour has it that Clough made Forest players strip bollock naked and run through nettles after training because they'd lost an important game. Has anyone else heard this?
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Certainly nettles not sure on the completely naked bit - sure I've heard psycho talking about it (or maybe in his book).

Either way, I'm certain he was first through............
 
ancoats said:
always respected brian clough and was a great manager. won titles and won in europe in the mighty liverpool years
but i was digging around on youtube and found this interview with clive anderson and he does not hold back about the hillsborough disaster and who he blames 3.30 into the clip

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Clive Anderson show circa 1994​

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Would love to know what his writer cut out of that chapter cos the finished article was explosive enough
 
People are getting too misty eyed over old bacon chops. He had the perfect situation to create a dynasty and that dynasty collapsed about 3 weeks after he left. Until the mid 2000's he benefited from a huge commercial and financial advantage over every other club in the league and they had very little opposition (Villa for a year, Blackburn for two seasons, Newcastle for 18 months and then only Arsenal until 2004). Even in the mid-2000s Liverpool were inconsistent, Arsenal got progressively worse and he never had to worry that one poor season could see them out of the top 4.

The rags treble was achieved by winning the league with 79 points which is shows how pathetic everyone else was. It pales in comparison to what City have had to do in recent years.
 
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