Did Mancini put his own CV ahead of City's interests?

[King Geedorah]

Just had a quick look at their results against the other top 4 teams.

Beat Chelsea home and away, beat United at home and narrowly lost away, drew with Arsenal at home.

Remember the Benitez days; they're a side built for the big games full of grafters and big characters.

 

[persvenality cult]

Nonsense, everybody in football knows what Mancini was tasked with this season.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Just had a quick look at their results against the other top 4 teams.

Beat Chelsea home and away, beat United at home and narrowly lost away, drew with Arsenal at home.

Remember the Benitez days; they're a side built for the big games full of grafters and big characters.

Rubbish.

I'm much more prepared to believe that he thought he could beat them with a waekened team than that he just didn't think we could win so rested the best players. It's a nonsense argument bearing in mind we've already beaten them easily and have a miles better playing staff than theirs. Name one of their players from Monday who'd get in our team. One.<br /><br />-- Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:27 pm --<br /><br />

Nonsense, everybody in football knows what Mancini was tasked with this season.

So why did he play a weakened team then?

 

[King Geedorah]

None of their players would get into Chelsea's team either but it didn't stop them losing home and away.

 

[Ragnarok]

Didsbury Dave in twisting everything to suit his agenda shocker.

Mancini knows what his targets are and what he needs to do to achieve them. He felt that the team he put out on monday could do the job while at the same time rest key players for the semi-final. Obviously it was a bit of a gamble which was why Mancini said it was his fault after the game. Anyway he still feels that he can achieve the targets set to him by the board and i believe he will.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

Just had a quick look at their results against the other top 4 teams.

Beat Chelsea home and away, beat United at home and narrowly lost away, drew with Arsenal at home.

Remember the Benitez days; they're a side built for the big games full of grafters and big characters.

Rubbish.

I'm much more prepared to believe that he thought he could beat them with a waekened team than that he just didn't think we could win so rested the best players. It's a nonsense argument bearing in mind we've already beaten them easily and have a miles better playing staff than theirs. Name one of their players from Monday who'd get in our team. One.

-- Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:27 pm --

Nonsense, everybody in football knows what Mancini was tasked with this season.

So why did he play a weakened team then?

Reina could, and Suarez, maybe even Carroll if he was used properly.

But Mancini hardly uses anybody right hence our poor performances.

 

[Boots_]

Honestly Dave, you choose your perfect side for last night and tell me what chance you think we'd have bearing in mind our away and Liverpool's home form.

Silva in for Milner, De Jong in for Barry, Balo in for Dkeko, same formation.

There's not a single player in the Liverpool side would get in ours. We murdered them at our place. We are above them in the league.

How on earth is the mindset that this was a game we were bound to lose crept in?

If Liverpool had picked up points at the rate they have under Dalglish for the whole season they would have been above us in the table going into Monday's game. So it's a little disingenuous to refer to their early season visit to our place.

Added to that, our away form is poor. The two factors combined have affected Mancini's decisions.

Do I think we should be doubting our quality? No. I think Mancini doubts it though.

 

[persvenality cult]

Just had a quick look at their results against the other top 4 teams.

Beat Chelsea home and away, beat United at home and narrowly lost away, drew with Arsenal at home.

Remember the Benitez days; they're a side built for the big games full of grafters and big characters.

Rubbish.

I'm much more prepared to believe that he thought he could beat them with a waekened team than that he just didn't think we could win so rested the best players. It's a nonsense argument bearing in mind we've already beaten them easily and have a miles better playing staff than theirs. Name one of their players from Monday who'd get in our team. One.

-- Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:27 pm --

Nonsense, everybody in football knows what Mancini was tasked with this season.

So why did he play a weakened team then?

Because it's only one game in seven and he thinks we can do both.

I agree with him.

In my view he should have prepared a team containing MORE fringe players. Players who, rather than worrying about injuring or tiring themselves before the big game, viewed it as their one opportunity to stake their claim.

 

[Soulboy]

Rubbish.

I'm much more prepared to believe that he thought he could beat them with a waekened team than that he just didn't think we could win so rested the best players. It's a nonsense argument bearing in mind we've already beaten them easily and have a miles better playing staff than theirs. Name one of their players from Monday who'd get in our team. One.

-- Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:27 pm --



So why did he play a weakened team then?

Because it's only one game in seven and he thinks we can do both.

I agree with him.

In my view he should have prepared a team containing MORE fringe players. Players who, rather than worrying about injuring or tiring themselves before the big game, viewed it as their one opportunity to stake their claim.

Yeah, because whenever we've played those "fired up" fringe players this season in the Cups, they have been so impressive!

;-))

 

[hello]

Are all these posts about resting De Jong & silva all in hindsight or were people raising their concerns at 7pm on Monday when the team was named?
On paper that side should have had more than enough to get a positive result\performance, however the combination of Liverpools best half since Istanbul (According to a scouser who follows them home & away) and everyone of our players looking like that pitch was the last place on the planet they wanted to be resulted in our shitest display since the spuds 3-0 drubbing.
So to those with hindsight saying dropping Silva & De Jong ( I am sure they both feel like they were dropped) meant we had no chance on monday, I would like to ask what sort of side should be playing on saturday, Would you have had the so called best XI playing both high intensity games or strongest against the scousers with players rested for the rags?
In the scheme of things could it be argued that a Saturdays result will have a bigger bearing on the league run in, I certianly wouldn't fancy the probablity of mancini inspiring the players to 5/6 league wins after a demoralising defeat to those twunts again, Neither do I see enough character in the side for the players to perform for themselves when the going gets tough.
I do however believe that a positive result on Saturday will lift the whole club to such a level that we will get 4th regardless of team selection \ tatics over the remaining league games. Without being disrespectful to Bolton Stoke, whoever wins on Saturday will be massive favourites to lift the FA cup. Doing so will give the squad belief in themselves and each other.

For me Saturday is a winner takes all match for us, Win and Champions league place cup in the cabinet end of season will happen. Lose and it will be another year on the stupid banner, another hammer blow the squad delivered by the same twunts as last season and another year of obsurce European away days.

Apologies for the lenght of post, quiet at work this afternoon.