Skashion
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8-1. Throwing a game to get the manager unsacked though.bellbuzzer said:OK, it's Bluemoon which runs on emotion, but this game in no shape or form resembled the 8-2 when the players really threw the game.
8-1. Throwing a game to get the manager unsacked though.bellbuzzer said:OK, it's Bluemoon which runs on emotion, but this game in no shape or form resembled the 8-2 when the players really threw the game.
de niro said:moomba said:Story tells me more about the people still at the club than anyone who has left.
And is worrying if true.
We knew very early in his city career his man management was poor, you can be like that but you HAVE to win things. I hate player power with a passion but they also have to be happy in their work. Seems there was no middle ground here.
BobKowalski said:Ray78 said:black mamba said:Alex Ferguson today says he can't believe that City sacked Mancini , and i am of the opinion that no other City manager has gained Fergies respect in such a way .... respect that came because of the achievements of Mancini during the few years that he's been here , and respect that came because he was in no way 'overawed' by Fergies presence in Manchester , as City finally started to pull their weight in derby games on a regular basis.
FA Cup winners
Premiership champions
Charity/Community Shield winners
FA Cup runners-up
Premiership runners-up
whether all the stories of rifts with the players are true or not , i feel that we've lost a Fergie-type manager here , a guy who almost certainly would have won many more trophies for this club over time , and gained even more respect from rival managers ...... and he liked living here too.
I wish Roberto Mancini well ... i liked him , and he looked the part to me .... yes , he made mistakes , but his decisions also won many games for us too .... and i'm none too sure that the ageing Pellegrini , should he arrive , will emulate the success that Mancini has enjoyed , and probably would have continued to enjoy ...... but then again , Joe Mercer was in his fifties when he took over the managerial reigns here , and that came following his sacking by Aston Villa , just after he'd suffered a stroke ... and nobody needs reminding of the success he brought City.
There isn't much he could do if he'd lost all , or part , of the dressing room , but maybe his seemingly 'distant' situations with the two Spanish henchmen , and Marwood , did him even less favours than his squabbles with certain players ......
one thing is for sure , Mancini would have given a rats arse for anything the Dail Mail said .. or what any other paper said for that matter !
I think we've lost a very good manager here , and i can only hope that we don't live to regret it.
We won't regret it. The structure we are putting place we will see to that. The days of the old school type of management is consigned to the history books.
Yes it is and I have no problem with that. My problem is having this sort of shit splattered all over the press. And the fact that the club has been leaking some of this or giving the okay to print the things journo's already knew. So whats next? Mancini's version of events and another news cycle with City shit splattered all over it? You think Platt isn't going to pitch up at some stage on Sky and start 'putting the record straight'?
Just keep your mouths fucking shut City as we all end up covered in shit
it can also be stated that there is very rarely smoke without fire.
The perfect fumble said:it can also be stated that there is very rarely smoke without fire.
You can state it, but it doesn't make it true. In the world of sports journalism there is so much smoke it's not possible to make any rational decision as to the existence of fire. I read this week that Sergio is off, that Martinez will be our assistant manager, that the "special one" is coming to Eastlands, that we will end up with Benitez and that we will come third next season behind Utd in second, with Chelsea winning the title, tomorrow it'll be something else, and on it goes.