SkyBlueUSA said:St Helens Blue (Exiled) said:More like a grandad who puts his arm around you rather than a football winner. Im willing to bet we dont get top four with this halfwit.
Lets give him ten games hey...we will be that far behind it wont matter..
I don't want to sound the panic alarm, I'm optimistic for the most part. However, imagine if we failed to get top 4, and barley snuck a Round of 16 appearance or didn't get out of the group? I can't see Pellegrini being back for another season if that happened. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.. I wonder what will happen if we have a very poor league campaign, but do surprisingly well in the Champions league-QF appearance?
bobmcfc said:What did he say in his post match comments
^^^ This 100% ^^^davymcfc said:These are the results from the start of last season.Lavinda Past said:Pam said:We shaft the best manager in our history for this fucking shite. Anyone who says Bobby would have tolerated three successive performances epic can't be arsed bullshit is a liar
^^^ This 100% ^^^
City 3 Southampton 2
Liverpool 2 city 2
City 3 QPR 1
Stoke 1 city 1
Real Madrid 3 city 2
City 1 arsenal 1
We didn't play particularly well in any of these matches although we were very unlucky in madrid. This was with a team that Mancini had taken three years to establish and had just won the premier league. Unfortunately things didn't get much better last season. Here's another run of three games.
QPR 0 city 0
City 2 Liverpool 2
Southampton 3 city 1
Anyone who says it was a bed of roses under Mancini is also a liar.
RandomJ said:bobmcfc said:What did he say in his post match comments
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "It is always a difficult game at Stoke, but it's a good point in a difficult week with all the players we had on international duty. We could only spend one day with the squad and we also have the Champions League next week."
Excuses already after a few games. Doesn't fill you with confidence.
Would you rather he slagged off the players in public?1RandomJ said:bobmcfc said:What did he say in his post match comments
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "It is always a difficult game at Stoke, but it's a good point in a difficult week with all the players we had on international duty. We could only spend one day with the squad and we also have the Champions League next week."
Excuses already after a few games. Doesn't fill you with confidence.
bobmcfc said:What did he say in his post match comments
AshtonBlueMooner said:No one is saying it was a bed of roses. However, we are creating next to nothing. The team appears to have gone backwards when we were told by MP at the start of the season that we would be seeing a free flowing attractive football City. So far i've seen nothing of it. I want MP to succeed as much as anyone but looking at him on the touchline today I didn't see any fight in the man, a gentleman yes, a winner, i'm not so sure. I hope i'm proved wrong but I think it may be a long hard season.
I hope you're proved wrong too. If you think of the horrific performance that was put in at wembley v Wigan then you would know that things aren't going to completely change over night. He has had four games in charge, 3 without our influential captain. I'm sure he would love to play attacking football and from the Newcastle game and the milan friendly we are clearly capable. Remember the manager and 4 of the players are completely new to the league and it may take time to settle properly. When I say time I don't mean 4 games. I'm talking a couple of months.AshtonBlueMooner said:No one is saying it was a bed of roses. However, we are creating next to nothing. The team appears to have gone backwards when we were told by MP at the start of the season that we would be seeing a free flowing attractive football City. So far i've seen nothing of it. I want MP to succeed as much as anyone but looking at him on the touchline today I didn't see any fight in the man, a gentleman yes, a winner, i'm not so sure. I hope i'm proved wrong but I think it may be a long hard season.
karen7 said:AshtonBlueMooner said:No one is saying it was a bed of roses. However, we are creating next to nothing. The team appears to have gone backwards when we were told by MP at the start of the season that we would be seeing a free flowing attractive football City. So far i've seen nothing of it. I want MP to succeed as much as anyone but looking at him on the touchline today I didn't see any fight in the man, a gentleman yes, a winner, i'm not so sure. I hope i'm proved wrong but I think it may be a long hard season.
This,i want to see some fight and enthusiam from him on match days,maybe too much of a thinker and not a doer
Or maybe a job making chilliLavinda Past said:bobmcfc said:What did he say in his post match comments
Probably something along the lines of 'this was a good result... Stoke are a very tough team to play at home... Mark Hughes is a great manager'
While thinking... 'what the f*ck am I going to do next? I wonder if the Chile Job Centre has any good jobs going?'
RandomJ said:It's the "arm round the players" thing that really confuses me. If you think back to your school days if you had a strict teacher there would be no talking or messing around you just got on with your work but if you got one of those useless teachers who tried to be your mate you'd take advantage and piss about and get nothing done.
The reason Mancini was so vocal about his players was because the useless twats were just not putting in a shift and for the money they get each week that is disgusting and so rightly so they should be criticised. How is Pellegrini being their mate going to inspire them to play better when there is no consequences for playing shit? No doubt they went into the changing room at full time, Pellegrini gave them all a hug and said they were unlucky today and the players just pissed off home.
Phil Meup said:Would you rather he slagged off the players in public?1RandomJ said:bobmcfc said:What did he say in his post match comments
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "It is always a difficult game at Stoke, but it's a good point in a difficult week with all the players we had on international duty. We could only spend one day with the squad and we also have the Champions League next week."
Excuses already after a few games. Doesn't fill you with confidence.
Of course he's got to make excuses - it doesn't mean he's clueless!
Give him a chance - I thought we'd struggle with Silva & Clichy injured & Vinnie already out.
It's still early days FFS.
AtlantaSkyBlue said:karen7 said:AshtonBlueMooner said:No one is saying it was a bed of roses. However, we are creating next to nothing. The team appears to have gone backwards when we were told by MP at the start of the season that we would be seeing a free flowing attractive football City. So far i've seen nothing of it. I want MP to succeed as much as anyone but looking at him on the touchline today I didn't see any fight in the man, a gentleman yes, a winner, i'm not so sure. I hope i'm proved wrong but I think it may be a long hard season.
This,i want to see some fight and enthusiam from him on match days,maybe too much of a thinker and not a doer
Except look what he did at Malaga, Villarreal, and Real Madrid. Why can't he do the same thing with City? How much time do we need to give this guy?
Great great post..and imagine if wed have given him 80 million as well pam...Pam said:RandomJ said:It's the "arm round the players" thing that really confuses me. If you think back to your school days if you had a strict teacher there would be no talking or messing around you just got on with your work but if you got one of those useless teachers who tried to be your mate you'd take advantage and piss about and get nothing done.
The reason Mancini was so vocal about his players was because the useless twats were just not putting in a shift and for the money they get each week that is disgusting and so rightly so they should be criticised. How is Pellegrini being their mate going to inspire them to play better when there is no consequences for playing shit? No doubt they went into the changing room at full time, Pellegrini gave them all a hug and said they were unlucky today and the players just pissed off home.
Mancini has won 4 Coppa Italia's, three Serie A titles, an English PL title in only his second full season and an FA Cup. I give not a shit about his fucking social skills with the players.
Phil Meup said:Would you rather he slagged off the players in public?.RandomJ said:bobmcfc said:What did he say in his post match comments
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "It is always a difficult game at Stoke, but it's a good point in a difficult week with all the players we had on international duty. We could only spend one day with the squad and we also have the Champions League next week."
Excuses already after a few games. Doesn't fill you with confidence.
Pam said:RandomJ said:It's the "arm round the players" thing that really confuses me. If you think back to your school days if you had a strict teacher there would be no talking or messing around you just got on with your work but if you got one of those useless teachers who tried to be your mate you'd take advantage and piss about and get nothing done.
The reason Mancini was so vocal about his players was because the useless twats were just not putting in a shift and for the money they get each week that is disgusting and so rightly so they should be criticised. How is Pellegrini being their mate going to inspire them to play better when there is no consequences for playing shit? No doubt they went into the changing room at full time, Pellegrini gave them all a hug and said they were unlucky today and the players just pissed off home.
Mancini has won 4 Coppa Italia's, three Serie A titles, an English PL title in only his second full season in England and an FA Cup. I give not a shit about his fucking social skills with the players.