Club Statement (confirmed that Mancini sacked)

[M147WN]

Agree

One chapter finishes, another begins...........exciting times ahead I feel

should be interesting

would how long it will take to appoint the new manager

I find the line in the statement about Kidd taking charge of the US tour interesting, unless it's a red herring of course?

Has to be!

 

[itsnevereasy]

what a joke

so if pelligreni doesnt win the league he gets sacked and then the next manager

Mancini wins the league last season and gets sacked. The club have treated him like shit and been completley disrespectful. We cant win everything every year, no team can. United didnt win the league last season, but did they sack ferguson, no they stuck by him.

Forza Mancini

I don't think the league is the main issue, more Mancini not pulling the team / club in the development direction that the owner wants. I guess he didn't by into the long term plan.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

SSN:"Mancini is the 15th manager Baconface had seen off". Absolute bollocks but City have done themselves no favours today.

So when the decision was made and it broke Friday night when could they have sacked him.

FA cup final day? The day united were crowned? Today or have a Hughes situation where he knows he's sacked but is forced to manage the team?

Well this might be crazy but the end of the season

So another Hughes situation then

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Typical RAG

Not sure if serious?

Fuck him, I've been called far worse and he's a little girl pissing in his knickers because his favourite manager has been sacked. Water off a ducks back if you've been around a few years.

Stop acting like a twat then.

 

[martinmcfc]

Who hired Mancini?
Who fired Mancini?

That's right. Thank you Sheikh Mansour.

What's your point?????

 

[Anonymous]

We have just got rid of the best manager at Manchester City since Joe Mercer and I couldn't pay RM a higher compliment.

That's the bottom line , you're quite right .......

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

From Twitter:

View From A Blue ‏@viewfromablue 1m
Andrea Mancini, Roberto's son, now wading into it. "Money can't buy class, show some respect for the manager that made you win after 44yrs."

He's got a big mouth. Takes after his dad

He s just sticking up for his dad, I would do the same.

he is right though

 

[OB1]

Some of the reactions on here are preposterous.

I have good memories of Roberto and what he has delivered, but it's football management: a well paid, yet brutal and unforgiving job. He knew this when he embarked on this career path: he has followed in others' wake before and he will again. That is the nature of the game of football management.

None of us can know the sub-plot to this decision, at least at the moment. I'm not saying that this is the case, but if his relationships have broken down beyond the point of critical mass, then there's no turning back from that. That's the way of the world.

Our owners deserve our absolute trust to make the right decisions. Does anyone seriously think Mancini would have come to City if Taskin was still in charge or worse, we were in administration? On that basis anyone egregiously criticising them is being foolish.

I cannot argue with any of that.
Good luck Bob and thank you
Thanks Roberto, you've given me the best footballing memories of my life, but you got to manage my football club for three and a half years and were well rewarded for doing it, which is why my reserves of sympathy are not limitless at your dismissal, or even the nature of it. There plenty of people on this board struggling to find work who are far more deserving of my sympathies.

He'll get over this and move forward, as will City. City is what really matters, individuals are just extras passing through. People shouldn't lose sight of that.

Fully endorse that sentiment GDM, great post

Excellent stuff.

 

[bluemathlady]

Welcome to city, Harry Redknapp!

 

[CelesteItis]

Gutted!

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