Discuss Pellegrini

[BobKowalski]

I think his difference from Mourinho, and indeed Mancini, is the key to him being picked - he will accept the director of football's signings, he will accept the holistic philosophy, and by and large he will do what the senior executives ask him to - something that Bobby was not prepared to, and Mourinho would not have been prepared to. I am not by the way having a pop at Pellegrini, I am just stating what I believe to be the case

City is the Ferran & Txiki show and it will be run their way which is fair enough given that is the job they were brought in to do. You are right in that what neither want is a Mourinho/Mancini/Benitez character forever moaning about - well pretty much everything - or causing ructions in the press or upsetting players hence Pellers will just get on with the job and not upset anyone in the process. There is even an argument to be made that a Pellegrini type character is just what the squad needed after 3 years of being 'Mancinied'.

Equally there is no need to start believing the bollocks that Pellers is up there with Mourinho or frankly that Pellers is some sort of attacking guru because judging by his reaction to going 1-0 up against Hull he was more than happy with getting out with the 3 points and stuff all that 'when we go 1-0 we have to always attack and score more' malarky. This is not a criticism of Pellers as I also felt getting out with 3 points become pretty much the only thing to do given our less than inspiring performance and with the international break looming. As a point of interest Michael Cox of Zonal Marking stated that Pellers is very conservative in big games and that with three conservative coaches in Pellers, Mourinho and Moyes it will be a return to the 0-0, 1-1 days so to be honest I am slightly intrigued why everyone is so damn convinced we are about to enter a golden age of City football.

Strangely though, we've scored 8 in 3 games.

Thats nice. We also have 6 points and are level with Stoke. We have also conceded more goals than a Mark Hughes side. That alone should scare the fucking crap out of us.

 

[andyhinch]

I don't think you really find it that funny, Billy. I envisage more of a sucking lemons look.

You lot seem to spend a lot of time thinking about me. It's sweet. For the record I'm happy we won. Performance first half was very poor. Second half better. But most importantly we got the 3 points.

A fair appraisal of the game all told.

No it's not it shows no understanding of the game, were you there?

 

[bernabias home shirt]

We should have stuck with Mancini

There is no real argument to the contrary. Virtually everyone in football would agree with you.

Sadly, the Sheikh was persuaded by the suits that they could do it better. Maybe in the future we will do a Chelski and bring him back.

The problem is that there was a genuine argument for Mancini being sacked. If he did indeed alienate the majority of the staff at the club from tea lady to captain as has been reported then I don't think there was anyway he could have stayed.

When you have £150'000-£200'000 a week players spitting their dummies out because they don't like what their manager says,there's only going to be one outcome

It was a shame he went but he had too

 

[mammutly]

Hahahahaha. That's a terrible post but equally hysterically funny.

I don't think you really find it that funny, Billy. I envisage more of a sucking lemons look.

You lot seem to spend a lot of time thinking about me. It's sweet. For the record I'm happy we won. Performance first half was very poor. Second half better. But most importantly we got the 3 points.

You lot! ?????

I responded to your comment, Billy. I'm in nobody's gang/lot. Never have been, never will be.

The team performance today was shambolic and only the individual talent of our players won the day. Obviously, I too am glad we got the points - we can agree on that.

If Pellegrini had a game plan today, it was either wrong and/or completely misunderstood. From my viewing of the game, it was both. We were lucky.
Pellegrini needs to meet with his owners/exec team and come up with some answers - quickly.

I am seriously not looking forward to playing the rags if we perform anything like we did today.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

You lot seem to spend a lot of time thinking about me. It's sweet. For the record I'm happy we won. Performance first half was very poor. Second half better. But most importantly we got the 3 points.

A fair appraisal of the game all told.

No it's not it shows no understanding of the game, were you there?

Personal invite on the bench..did you not see him barking his orders out....lol

 

[hilts]

Believe me he does..never seen a so called blue with so much vitriole twds Mancini yet not one of us is allowed to question the appt of Manuel...I certainly heard a few voices of discontent today...lets hope they are swiftly silenced by Manuel and the team.

In all fairness and as a big Mancini fan no one should really be questioning the manager at this stage, it is silly, Billy is an idiot so best just ignore him, you can argue with a tit all you want but tomorrow he will still be a tit

Only saying what I heard today pal....careful calling him a tit..do you not know he gets special mod protection..a two week ban is coming your way i predict....

Surely freedom of speech and telling the truth will save me?

 

[scotty123]

I don't think you really find it that funny, Billy. I envisage more of a sucking lemons look.

You lot seem to spend a lot of time thinking about me. It's sweet. For the record I'm happy we won. Performance first half was very poor. Second half better. But most importantly we got the 3 points.

You lot! ?????

I responded to your comment, Billy. I'm in nobody's gang/lot. Never have been, never will be.

The team performance today was shambolic and only the individual talent of our players won the day. Obviously, I too am glad we got the points - we can agree on that.

If Pellegrini had a game plan today, it was either wrong and/or completely misunderstood. From my viewing of the game, it was both. We were lucky.
Pellegrini needs to meet with his owners/exec team and come up with some answers - quickly.

I am seriously not looking forward to playing the rags if we perform anything like we did today.

The rags will muller us, they are rubbing their hands, we are a shambles under ''the engineer''

 

[Phil1]

There is no real argument to the contrary. Virtually everyone in football would agree with you.

Sadly, the Sheikh was persuaded by the suits that they could do it better. Maybe in the future we will do a Chelski and bring him back.

The problem is that there was a genuine argument for Mancini being sacked. If he did indeed alienate the majority of the staff at the club from tea lady to captain as has been reported then I don't think there was anyway he could have stayed.

When you have £150'000-£200'000 a week players spitting their dummies out because they don't like what their manager says,there's only going to be one outcome

It was a shame he went but he had too

Yep, I think we've got some mardy arsed fuckers in our squad. Unfortunately given the choice of removing Mancini or trying to offload said mardy arsed fuckers was only ever going to result in the removal of Bobby.

 

[hilts]

You lot seem to spend a lot of time thinking about me. It's sweet. For the record I'm happy we won. Performance first half was very poor. Second half better. But most importantly we got the 3 points.

You lot! ?????

I responded to your comment, Billy. I'm in nobody's gang/lot. Never have been, never will be.

The team performance today was shambolic and only the individual talent of our players won the day. Obviously, I too am glad we got the points - we can agree on that.

If Pellegrini had a game plan today, it was either wrong and/or completely misunderstood. From my viewing of the game, it was both. We were lucky.
Pellegrini needs to meet with his owners/exec team and come up with some answers - quickly.

I am seriously not looking forward to playing the rags if we perform anything like we did today.

The rags will muller us, they are rubbing their hands, we are a shambles under ''the engineer''

Look on the brightside fella, if cardiff and hull had not turned up and we won all 3 games the boss wouldn't have learned anything before the derby and we certainly would have got turned over.

I cannot see him picking the same formation for the derby no one is that daft

 

[andyhinch]

I don't think you really find it that funny, Billy. I envisage more of a sucking lemons look.

You lot seem to spend a lot of time thinking about me. It's sweet. For the record I'm happy we won. Performance first half was very poor. Second half better. But most importantly we got the 3 points.

You lot! ?????

I responded to your comment, Billy. I'm in nobody's gang/lot. Never have been, never will be.

The team performance today was shambolic and only the individual talent of our players won the day. Obviously, I too am glad we got the points - we can agree on that.

If Pellegrini had a game plan today, it was either wrong and/or completely misunderstood. From my viewing of the game, it was both. We were lucky.
Pellegrini needs to meet with his owners/exec team and come up with some answers - quickly.

I am seriously not looking forward to playing the rags if we perform anything like we did today.

Unfortunately Billy's a bit of a petulant child, very hard to take seriously at the best of times, slightly annoying but ultimately dismissive