"Mancini - Right or Wrong?"

Brilliant synopsis of Mancini's reign, football is getting very complicated and political sometimes !!
 
from "the secret foootballer"
From what I can gather, Barcelona had been keeping tabs on Pellegrini to replace their own manager, Tito Vilanova, who is fighting cancer. When Barca found out about Begiristain courting Pellegrini for City, they decided to give the juicy story to Balague in order to stick the knife into City and give Begiristain a bloody nose in the process.

Good, eh? Nothing like love in the football world. Then we had the 48-hour wait to find out if it was all a sick hoax or there was some truth in it. As it transpired, Mancini was duly sacked and Brian Kidd was brought in to oversee the final two games of the season.

I believe that Mancini’s downfall was sealed when they dropped out of the Champions League at the group stage for the second season running. Trailing ten points behind Manchester United in the Premier League was immaterial; the damage had already been done. The powers that be were looking for a new prince to take the team and the club forward.

As a City fan, the sacking was a massive surprise. The timing, obviously, was all wrong but how do you control the uncontrollable?
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/12679/barca-twist-the-knife-in-mancini-exit/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/arti ... cini-exit/</a>?
 
jimbo101 said:
woolleyback blue said:
The title from the OP implies that there is only either right or wrong. Football's not like that. Mancini was the right man at the right time when Hughes was sacked. We needed a "name" manager with experience of building teams and winning trophies. Mancini fitted the profile at that time. He took a collection of players that Hughes couldn't get the best out of and moulded them into a cohesive unit.

He earned the right to be allowed to spend on new players and his choices were good on the whole. Silva, Aguerro and Toure being the stars. He won the Cup subsequently the PL with them. I think this blinded us all to his failings which were that he preferred to buy rather than develop players and that his man management skills were abraisive to say the least.

It became obvious that when City employed Begiristain and Soriano that they were aiming to emulate the Barcelona model in playing style and how players were brought through the youth teams. Mancini was wrong for this approach.

So if you ask me whether he was right or wrong I'd have to say both.

Why dont you read the blog, not just the title?

Do you think I posted that without reading it??
 
I find it sick how we have treated our last three managers, Sven, Hughes & now a manager that has won FA Cup and Premier Legaue in his first full two seasons. I was never a fan of Hughes but still was poor how he left.

Anyway back on topic . . . Its WRONG!

I have heard all this recent papaer rubbish about players upset, moaning, bitching etc etc multi millionaire players playing a hobby for a living and won top honours under that manager they are bitching & moaning about. It Sick if this is the real reason why he has got the sack and not because "we have not reached any of our targets except qualifying for Champions League"

I think we all no one thing Mancini really lacks is man management and if this is his only downfall and still won FA Cup and Premier League surely this can be fixed with someone who can do this side of things and leave Roberto at what he is clearly good at winning things. Lets face it surely Kidd this Mr nice guy who he clearly comes across as should do something that fits his role as Assistant Manager and man manage or do anything except taking Roberto's fruit pastals! Anyway its too late for all that now.

I like Roberto's MEN page to say good bye to us (http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/05...full-page-farewell-ad-manchester-evening-news).

He deserved one more season to right his wrongs, then if still no progress I would change my opinion but still thank him for everything.

Thanks Roberto its been a pleasure
 
Just read this don't know what you all think but fair and enlightening. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2326322/Roberto-Mancini-revealed-The-Manchester-City-dressing-room-battles-sacking.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... cking.html</a>
 

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