I really hope that you are right re changes on and off the pitch. The general malaise within the playing side of the club is unbelievable, and stems imo from the manager. His relaxed, lazy approach to the game has permeated throughout the squad, most of whom need very few excuses to take the easy route.
When Mancini was here, he wasn't perfect, but he realised that the one missing ingredient at our club was the lack of a big club mentality. Big clubs find a way of winning through adversity, big clubs don't use excuses, and big clubs don't ever produce the kind of performance we saw on Wednesday night. Mancini set to work on instilling this mentality and by and large had done so. And then along comes this 'charming man', who in one fell swoop has destroyed everything that Mancini had started.
Not to open any old wounds, but it is only my opinion that the club made a huge mistake in siding with the shit house players when they dispensed with Mancini. It's not that I had any love for Mancini but if they were going to release him, then why not at least try and find someone who could build on the winning mentality that RM had started. Why go for a guy who was serial failure and had not won one major title in Europe? Somebody fucked up royally there.
We need a manager who knows what it's like to be a winner, someone for whom failure is not an option. A manager who doesn't stand by reputations, but rather by application. I believe we have that man coming in now in Pep, but oh what a shame he's having to start from such a low base.
