Hi to all ManCity fans,
maybe now it’s a bit early to say this but I really think you did the right thing by signing Mancini. I belive there are many things in common between Inter, when Mancini took it, and your side today; to mention a few:
- A very long period without victories: the last Serie A championship had been won 17 years before (with Trapattoni as a manager!) and most fans believed we were doomed not to win anymore
- Mancini was a relatively unexperienced manager for the Serie A at that time and giving him top managerial responsibility at Inter was more of a gamble than it is now for ManCity (note that even big names had failed at Inter before Mancini, one for all: Marcello Lippi, who had won championships before and would win the World Cup afterwards but failed utterly at Inter)
- We have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with the other Milan team (I can’t even name it!) and, at the time, we were regarded as the “poor relatives”; after four years with Mancini we were able to turn the tables on them and cancelled that snooty air of superiority
- Inter has been always considered a “genius and intemperance” type of side with an historically unruly dressing room and that’s why has always been more diffucult for a manager to work at Inter than, say, at Milan or Juventus
In spite of the above Mancio was able not only to “break the spell” and lead us back where we belong but he started a cycle (which is much more difficult); the guy, as you may have already noticed, fears nothing and thinks big so, break a leg and Forza Inter and Forza ManCity!