Mastes1 said:
leighton said:
If more and more players keep coming out saying stuff about pick me or I leave in the past month or even players wanting new contracts. It makes me wonder a wee bit IF Mancini has the full backing of the players. Some unhappy players about at the moment how long will it take for the rest of the players who are in the 25 to say something about whats going on. I feel if we go into a bad patch during the season there will be more paper talk by some of the players within the squad. I get the feeling the players dont know were they stand with Mancini and how he deals with players. Time will tell but he has work under huge pressure with Inter and got the best out of the players so hopefully the same happens here.
I don't know Manchini enough to say what kind of manager he is but people always have a go at Ferguson on here but you never hear Manu players coming out with crap like this and if they did, they would be out regardless of who it is. Manchini or someone needs to come down hard on these players.
Fergie is a good man manager though, he keeps his players happy and there's a really good atmosphere there, there always has been.
But what I think the difference between us and United is that United have a good squad, an excellent team, but besides their stand out players like Rooney, Vidic..etc, they've squad players that make a good team, we've too many top class players (sounds ridiculous I know) but top class players doesn't mean it will give you a top class team.
Too many players are too good to sit on the bench and feel they're wasting their team, and they're right, if you're Park or Gibson, you're not going to expect to be starting in place of one of the main men, that you're a squad player and that in time they might break into what is the starting 11 on a permanent basis.
Here we've too many players who deserve to be on our first team. And that's a receipe for disaster, we can't just treat them like robots, and tell them to shut up or move on because they're paid, they're not robots, they want to play football and if they're not getting it and feel they could somewhere else they are perfectly entitled to look elsewhere.
It's not about having the stomach for the fight or not, I mean, whatever about outfield players, whichever keeper is picked in goal on the weekend will be keeper for the season, obviously barring an injury, it's easy to dislodge a striker or a midfielder if you do well in training, but once you're picked in goal the manager will want that as solid as he can get and with the exception of an injury he'll be keeper for the season, no matter what happens in training.
