Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini 2015/16

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blueinsa said:
Only if our number 1 target was available right now and he isn't I suspect.

Our senior management needs to take a look at itself as its created a scenario where a manager knows he is off come the summer and worse, it allows players to think fuck it, he is off any ways.

Fucking depressing situation for the club all this given the sheer amount of good news off the pitch right now.

They had better have Pep lined up or its going to get messy.
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We have both defended Pellers long and hard, for good reasons, but I confess that I am short on defence and even shorter on patience now. A similar thing happened with Mancini, for me. I also wanted Pep then but even if we have him wrapped up for next year, the case against keeping Pellers any longer sadly go a huge push forward today.

Pellers biggest crime is putting too much faith in his players. He has not compensated properly for their weaknesses and the downgrade we suffer when so many of our key players are out or out of sorts.

Today, he got the team selection wrong from the off in my eyes. I tweeted before game that I'd have played Delph; I also thought then that I would have started Clichy. I think he should have had the foresight to start all three of Delph and the Ferns, with a game away at Stoke where he had to start MDM at CB.

Injuries are really not helping and today that gave us a glimpse of why, to much criticism, MP still insists on starting Yaya all the time. None of Silva, KDB or Dinho filled the hole in the middle of the team and controlled the ball like Yaya does. I have harboured hopes that Dave could but he has never proved it yet. Both he and KDB were absolute garbage today, which doesn't help but is not an entire surprise. The manager has to get KDB by the scruff of the neck and instill some real focus in him: too often he fails to make the easy pass. KDB is a huge talent but he has to learn that the best players do the simple things right time and again.

Our level of injuries will rightly raise questions over training methods etc but they may not be controllable - the club though should be consulting external experts on that pdq if they are not already doing that - because injuries are undoubtedly hurting us. However, Pellers is not adapting to their impact on his squad well enough and does not have a system to fall back on. Time to go back to basics. Ironically it was a failure to do that which did for Hughes, IMO. Don't think Pellers will make that change and, therefore, the Board has some serious thinking to do. If they have Pep lined up, do they resort to a caretaker before our challenge requires an undertaker?
 
Why Always Ste said:
No. I'd keep Pellers until end of season then assess.
No rash decision.
Hey we ain't exactly mid table as is Chelski.

I don't want him anymore as manager, but best to bring in someone new preseason
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Sorry to piss on your parade but our form over the last 10 league games is mid table.
 
It's a collective effort between management and players and both are falling way short. My only bit of optimism (there's less and less as the weeks trundle by) is the fact we've shown in the past when the chips are down and we're written off we are more than capable of putting a run together. The fact this year the league is wide open has me clinging to the faintest hope we can come through this difficult period and keep within touching distance.

I honestly don't see Pellegrini going anywhere. Some of you are going to combust before Xmas day.
 
Get the manager that Bayern would get if Pep would leave them.

I think Pelle knows he is out soon. He absolutely wont change much in tactical terms until that. Same mistakes, same bad preparations for games, Spurs, Pool, the Juve games, Stoke, these are hardly our last losses this season or even this month.

We play Leicester and Arsenal later this month. They will enjoy our high line, huge holes in middle with lack of workrate tactics. If Stoke with Sparky was able to come up with a gameplan against the Engineer, imagine Ranieri or Wenger.
 
Danamy said:
Permanent or temporary?
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That's tough.

I'm sick of waiting for pep and I don't see anyone better than CA who is actually available.

That's said I would have liked loop. He's young passionate, vibrant, fresh; everything that CA isn't.
But without some guarantee for pep then I think yeah, I'd put CA in on a 3 year contract.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
It's money time for Pep.

We didn't sack Pellegrini in the summer because Pep wasn't ready.

We can't afford to risk this season now falling into the shitter, waiting for the perfect timeline.

Pep needs to push the button this month if he is coming or we get a new long-term manager, regardless.

Klopp has shown at Liverpool what a bit of tactical acumen and momentum can achieve right away.

Times this by 100 with Pep and a superior set of players at his disposal at City.
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We don't have that many players even suited to Pep's style. This is what has baffled me over the last 18 months or so. If Pep is our grand masterplan we've bought so many players recently who are crap in possession.
 
Getting very sick of the Guardiola saga now. Very worried that we missed out on Klopp who I think would have been great for us. We may already have done this but for me, Pep signs a contract right now for next season or we get Ancelotti. Time for the walking corpse to leave us. I like the guy but he brings nothing except his good manners to the club and that just isn't enough. Still, could be worse - Van Boring anyone?
 
Pablo1 said:
It's a collective effort between management and players and both are falling way short. My only bit of optimism (there's less and less as the weeks trundle by) is the fact we've shown in the past when the chips are down and we're written off we are more than capable of putting a run together. The fact this year the league is wide open has me clinging to the faintest hope we can come through this difficult period and keep within touching distance.

I honestly don't see Pellegrini going anywhere. Some of you are going to combust before Xmas day.
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If we could get our best players fit for a decent spell of time, the world might look a lot different, but no sign of that happening so the system has to adapt.
 
Silva_Spell said:
We don't have that many players even suited to Pep's style. This is what has baffled me over the last 18 months or so. If Pep is our grand masterplan we've bought so many players recently who are crap in possession.
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Yeah Nasri, Silva, Yaya, De Bruyne, Ageuro how will we ever be able to play a passing game...
 
Sack Pellegrini and replace him with who exactly?

For better or for worse we're stuck with him until the very least this summer. Some of you are just going to have to swallow that fact irrespective of how unpalletable it may be.
 
Silva_Spell said:
We don't have that many players even suited to Pep's style. This is what has baffled me over the last 18 months or so. If Pep is our grand masterplan we've bought so many players recently who are crap in possession.
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Exactly, Kolarov, Fernando, Mangala, Bony all not certainly good enough, with Yaya, Fernandinho, Sagna aging....
 
Dribble said:
Sack Pellegrini and replace him with who exactly?

For better or for worse we're stuck with him until the very least this summer. Some of you are just going to have to swallow that fact irrespective of how unpalletable it may be.
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