Your Top 3 City Managers...

DJBusinesscake said:
Im bored in work again and thought id start this discussion. Who are your top 3 City managers of all time? You can base it on just liking them, your nostalgia, the success they brought, anything.

My personal top 3 managers would be:

1.Pellergrini- Cool, loves to attack, sometimes under appreciated, hes my favourite.
2.Keegan- He was the manager when i got my first season ticket, and i thought he was great, kept us up.
3.Sven- I just loved the guy, and those first 10 home game wins on the trott were just amazing for us at the time.

Mancini gets an honourable mention, but he doesnt make my top 3.

Obviuosly yours will be different, and im not really old enough to know the old time greats.
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Favourites are Horton, Pellegrini and Mancini but I liked Kendall, Reid, Keegan, royle all as well
 
jimharri said:
Definitely not. As a coach, under Joe Mercer, he was brilliant. But when he came back in the late seventies, replacing Booky, he damned near finished us off. We only truly started to recover when HRH came in. My top 3 would be Mercer, Pellegrini and Mancini. Joe at number 1, not sure about the order for the following two. Mancini ended the drought but Pellegrini has us playing, on our day, absolutely fantastic football.
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That team that got to the Liverppol semi final was Allisons team, I always believe he would of turned the league form around, he was my favourite anyway at the time as a young lad following City at the time I was gutted when he left.
 
Mercer / Allison 1965 - 1972
Mancini 2009 - 2013
Manuel Pellergrini 2013 - ?
Pellergrini will move up to second if he wins the premier league this season .
 
Pellegrini, Eriksson and Keegan with mentions to Mancini, Royle, Mercer and Allison (the latter I wasn't born when they were in charge but acknowledge the major contributions they had made to the club).
 
I cannot believe that Mercer/Allison are not top of everyone's list

They are mine
Then
Mancini
And then
Pelligrini.
 
It has to be:

Mercer/Allison
Mancini
Pellegrini

I have some time for Keegan, Bond, and Horton.
 
Ray78 said:
Pellegrini, Eriksson and Keegan with mentions to Mancini, Royle, Mercer and Allison (the latter I wasn't born when they were in charge but acknowledge the major contributions they had made to the club).
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You would seriously have Sven and Keegan over Mancini who turned us from a very average side under Hughes to FA cup winners and title winners in 3 seasons?
 
Has to be Sir Joe and Big Mal, followed by Tony Book for me cause they were the good old days.

Always thought Kendall would have been special if he stayed with us.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
You would seriously have Sven and Keegan over Mancini who turned us from a very average side under Hughes to FA cup winners and title winners in 3 seasons?
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Sven restored my faith in the club after a couple of soul destroying seasons under Pearce. He was the first manager to do the double over them lot in a long while (the second happened to be an anniversary and where in the build up to that derby we got kicked from pillar to post by the media).
 
Ray78 said:
Sven restored my faith in the club after a couple of soul destroying seasons under Pearce. He was the first manager to do the double over them lot in a long while (the second happened to be an anniversary and where in the build up to that derby we got kicked from pillar to post by the media).
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Sven was good, in my top 5 no problem. Keegan is in my top 3 for that superb year.

But and I know it's about opinions, Mancini humiliated them at the swamp, beat them at Wembley to give us not only the joy of getting to and winning a cup final, but beating them in the process. He won us our first silverware for 35 years. He clawed back an 8 point gap with 6 games to go, gave us the 1-0 flawless Kompany goal win against them and won the title for us 2 and a bit years after that joker Hughes was drawing 3-3 with Burnley at home and 3 and a bit years after we were in the bottom 4 at Xmas under clueless. He has to be in the top 3 especially as you were not around for Mercer as I wasn't. Doesn't he?
 
There is a margin between the two but what swayed me against Mancini was dropping Pants ahead of the Cup.
 
I'll go with the 3 Ms:
Mercer, Mancini and Manuel.
But Keegan got us up and played some great stuff and Book won the League Cup and had us 2nd in the League.
As for Royle; yes he got us back, but his record was two promotions and two relegations. He had a third of a season (15 games) to get us from 22nd to 21st and he failed to do it. - The man who thought Jamie Pillock was a better option than Kinkladze.
 
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Silva_Spell said:
(in no order)
Mancini,
trophies, passion and fixed Hughes' mess. Signed the right players

Keegan,
brought us back where we belong and kept us there. Arguably most important manager in recent history (Obviously Royle is in the same bracket, but he couldn't keep us in the PL).

Sven,
had us in the top 4 into January. Absolute disgrace that he was sacked
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My pick too
 
citymad said:
Pellers: Love his footballing philosophy, cool, calm keeps the wanker media at arms length.
Mancini: Defensively solid, took that banner down, hair and scarf,
Keegan: for Benarbia, Berko and the Goat.
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But keegan didnt sign the goat, unless you are just saying that kk got a better tune out of him? He only retired from playing 9years ago too,amazing.
 
Mancini - took City from a club that could spend a lot of money to title winners in just over 2 years.
Pelligrini - won a domestic double in a charming style.
Book - built a very good team and came so close in 76-77. My first season ticket year
 
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