Discuss Pellegrini...

[gungho-tactics]

I know I post a lot of shit. However, this is not a knee jerk reaction. I'm very calm right now. We have bought very badly. We have the highest wage bill in world sport.

I wanted Mancini gone. However, it is now conclusive that Pellegrini is no tactician. All he does is play the same style of football every week. No plan B. No plan to stop the opposition. Just sheer arrogance that we can be mini-Barcelona, let me tell you we are a shell of Barcelona. Why? Because Iniesta and Xavi actually give a shit about their club. He stands there like a plank of wood regardless of the result. Never changes the formation, just the personnel.

We turn up week in week out like we are fucking drunk. Our players look shocked that a game of football is happening. No pressing. No aggression. No passion.

Hart is NO WHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS SOME THINK. I've never seen a keeper get beat at his near post so many times.

It's just funny. Seriously. Money can't buy passion because that is why teams like Wigan and Sunderland embarrass us time and time again. Because they want it more. After 4 years and 2 managers we still can't beat Sunderland and Stoke away. We seem to never learn our lesson.

I'm actually embarrassed to be a city fan tonight. The balance of the team is not right. We have way to many stars and not enough 'glue' players. Cahill, Terry, Azpic etc. Chelsea have a bedrock of solid performers. Aside from Fernandinho and Zaba all of our players have a howler in them. Even Liverpool have Henderson etc. Hard workers. We have a load of lazy fuckers robbing us blind.

Soriano promised that we would have a director of football approach and that the first team coach would be cycled every 2 seasons or so. Fuck managerial stability. This isn't 1980 any more. Sack him and hope Madrid sack Ancelotti at the end of the season.

Ancelotti will probably stay in Spain.

But Benetiz is someone who won the Champions League twice, he'd happy to come here.

Van Gaal is another manager who is available. He has achieved alot in his career, he's been at many different clubs like Barcelona, Bayern and Ajax.

 

[Kevindxb]

And still those wankers Shears & Dismal will find excuses.
Pellegrini is fucking clueless.
Get rid & plan for next season.

Until we accept the players have form for this kind of thing we will not move forward, Mancini was far from perfect but was a lot better than what we have now, Pellegrini must be the only manager who doesn't think organising your team and not conceding goals is rather important, i would actually describe us as unprofessional

As much as I hate to say it, Mancini would have won this season with this squad. Regardless, what manager watches his team being so complacent, wasting time, and happily accept 1-0 at home against bottom team in such crucial time?

Milner was having no luck, sub with Jovitic. Negrido is not on form, stick Dzeko on. Why on earth wait till its too late. Why sit passively??!!!!

 

[thenabster]

I worry that he's Chile's answer to Kevin Keegan, ie nice guy who will never win the top prizes. Plus I've not seen any great tactical change from Mancini as we have increasingly reverted to a slow build up.

However I do think we have been unlucky with injuries. Aguero (still not fit) has missed a third of the season, Kompany missed many games and now right at the end of the season Ya Ya and Silva are not fit. Yes you can say we have spent a lot of money but any team would miss these players.

Some might say we were unlucky, others would say we have a bad fitness team and the manager who has archaic training methods.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

And still those wankers Shears & Dismal will find excuses.
Pellegrini is fucking clueless.
Get rid & plan for next season.

Who would you have in charge, that's available?

Is that the best you can veroffer?
'He's shit but nobody else is available?
I never wanted this clown in the first place
Let's get this farce of a season over with & see who's available.
An improvement won't be hard to find.

 

[bobom]

We know what's expected of him. 5 trophies in 5 years. And I think he'll deliver. Our owners are smarter than to drop a new manager after one season. They chose the right guy. This season's not about instant results, it's about the long picture: there's been a lot of great football. There's bound to be some tweaking of the squad in the summer, but a lot of things are right. Tonight was very disappointing, but let's not all overreact.

 

[simon23]

We can't go sacking the manager every time we fail to win the title.

For all the talk and PR, his first season has been a bit of a let down.
But he has to be given another to get it right.

fully agree he deserves another year but certain areas of the team/how we play against certain styles of play have looked poor all season and he has done very little to rectify this

we struggle against teams who press us with pace.........

we struggle in wide areas defensively as our fullbacks are so high up the pitch and therefore we are very vulnerable to quick breakaways

all defenders constantly trying to dive in and defend on the front foot...at times this is the right thing to do BUT NOT all the time!!!!

the huge gap infront of the back 4 has been there since the very first game and was evident tonight and in numerous other games throughout the season

we are vulnerable to crosses from deeper area over the top of the near or far fullback

he has done very little to correct any of this and we have got away with it in some games

 

[thenabster]

I know I post a lot of shit. However, this is not a knee jerk reaction. I'm very calm right now. We have bought very badly. We have the highest wage bill in world sport.

I wanted Mancini gone. However, it is now conclusive that Pellegrini is no tactician. All he does is play the same style of football every week. No plan B. No plan to stop the opposition. Just sheer arrogance that we can be mini-Barcelona, let me tell you we are a shell of Barcelona. Why? Because Iniesta and Xavi actually give a shit about their club. He stands there like a plank of wood regardless of the result. Never changes the formation, just the personnel.

We turn up week in week out like we are fucking drunk. Our players look shocked that a game of football is happening. No pressing. No aggression. No passion.

Hart is NO WHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS SOME THINK. I've never seen a keeper get beat at his near post so many times.

It's just funny. Seriously. Money can't buy passion because that is why teams like Wigan and Sunderland embarrass us time and time again. Because they want it more. After 4 years and 2 managers we still can't beat Sunderland and Stoke away. We seem to never learn our lesson.

I'm actually embarrassed to be a city fan tonight. The balance of the team is not right. We have way to many stars and not enough 'glue' players. Cahill, Terry, Azpic etc. Chelsea have a bedrock of solid performers. Aside from Fernandinho and Zaba all of our players have a howler in them. Even Liverpool have Henderson etc. Hard workers. We have a load of lazy fuckers robbing us blind.

Soriano promised that we would have a director of football approach and that the first team coach would be cycled every 2 seasons or so. Fuck managerial stability. This isn't 1980 any more. Sack him and hope Madrid sack Ancelotti at the end of the season.

Ancelotti will probably stay in Spain.

But Benetiz is someone who won the Champions League twice, he'd happy to come here.

Van Gaal is another manager who is available. He has achieved alot in his career, he's been at many different clubs like Barcelona, Bayern and Ajax.

No no no Benitez.

 

[cookster]

Engineer my arse!

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Who do we get in then??
GIve the man a chance ffs

Viera. At least he's young and can be molded.

Good suggestion

 

[mscenterh750]

As in the megadeath song Mr Pellegrini.......

"NO MORE MR NICE GUY!".