Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini 2014/15 (continued)

[Sergi0 Na5r1]

Gambling on the WHU game is very risky. Reports say they are ready to fire him if they feel CL status is in danger but its in danger now and if we wait until we lose or draw to WHU hope we wont be late...

Of course we might still reach 3rd place too with a good run. But if gambling lose we lose lot bigger than what we win.

I wonder how fast they would react if Big Sam travels back to London with a point or even three...
Or would they still keep gambling on the Villa game after.

I think he should have gone already. Liverpool are in good form overall and WH is no easy game. It's a big gamble.

 

[Sigh]

I really don't want a manager that looks like one of the lads from a Pierre Woodman flick. Aside from that sufficient reason, I don't want "Pep" because it will irritate the "Pep" club which is only slightly less boring than the forum's victimhood peddling society.

The thing is that Pep is not even in the mix. He is coach at Bayern Munich until atleast 2016 - he loves it there so it could even be much longer. And even without that he might not be available until 2017. And there will be a lot offers for him when he gets available.

His demise would no odds make: decomposing on the sidelines "Pep" yesterday, today and forever.

 

[FanchesterCity]

DISASSOCIATED PRESS RELEASE:

Manchester City have confirmed that Manuel Pellegrini will remain at the Etihad until the end of the season.
Representatives of the club confirmed that due to ongoing stadium work involving multiple cranes and a workforce of over 160 contractors, Health and Safety regulations have ruled out the possibility of an interim manager being parachuted in.

Mr Jo B. Sworth stated "A full risk assessment has been carried out, and we can confirm that the cranes pose a genuine risk, even to an experience parachuting manager like Mr Benitez. When we combined that with the potential damage to morale and loss of spectator consciousness on matchdays, it became apparent that the safest approach was to await the arrival of a specialist team from Abu Dhabi to resolve the situation'.

Mr Benitez was unavailable for comment until the end of his mid afternoon shift at an undisclosed restaurant, believed to offer tapas and other fine Spanish cuisine.


Well, that's that then.

 

[Damanino]

Lets hope Atletico&Simeone rips apart Real&Ancelotti tonight. That way and with Barca winning the league would be the end for Ancelotti.

But how would he give an answer to us until he is 100% out of CL and the league title I dont know. To be fair they could win CL+La Liga as well, why would Perez fire him then...

 

[FanchesterCity]

Lets hope Atletico&Simeone rips apart Real&Ancelotti tonight. That way and with Barca winning the league would be the end for Ancelotti.

But how would he give an answer to us until he is 100% out of CL and the league title I dont know. To be fair they could win CL+La Liga as well, why would Perez fire him then...

There's a real irony that we need another manager to perform badly so that he can replace our current badly performing manager!

 

[Sergi0 Na5r1]

Lets hope Atletico&Simeone rips apart Real&Ancelotti tonight. That way and with Barca winning the league would be the end for Ancelotti.

But how would he give an answer to us until he is 100% out of CL and the league title I dont know. To be fair they could win CL+La Liga as well, why would Perez fire him then...

They got rid of Del Bosque for less than that lol. No one's ever safe at Real.

 

[dasblues]

Has it been revealed yet who it is we are supposed to be waiting on a call from and/or negotiating with their current club? I think this was yesterday about a zillion pages back.

If we are sticking by Pellegrini and blaming the players then why would we be waiting urgently on any call?

Also still concerned about this public naming and shaming of Dzeko, Toure and Nasri. Unless the plan is that they don't play any more this season is the expectation that this is going to wound their pride ahead of this weekend, as it could just as easily translate into - why the hell should we bother running after a 50/50 ball and risk injury if we are now looking ahead a few weeks to the best transfer we can get.

No , because there is a fine art to pretending to be in the know. Never be specific about the details of your supposed information

 

[80s Shorts]

DISASSOCIATED PRESS RELEASE:

Manchester City have confirmed that Manuel Pellegrini will remain at the Etihad until the end of the season.
Representatives of the club confirmed that due to ongoing stadium work involving multiple cranes and a workforce of over 160 contractors, Health and Safety regulations have ruled out the possibility of an interim manager being parachuted in.

Mr Jo B. Sworth stated "A full risk assessment has been carried out, and we can confirm that the cranes pose a genuine risk, even to an experience parachuting manager like Mr Benitez. When we combined that with the potential damage to morale and loss of spectator consciousness on matchdays, it became apparent that the safest approach was to await the arrival of a specialist team from Abu Dhabi to resolve the situation'.

Mr Benitez was unavailable for comment until the end of his mid afternoon shift at an undisclosed restaurant, believed to offer tapas and other fine Spanish cuisine.


Well, that's that then.

 

[supercity88]

Actually after Barcelona nobody would touch him. He went to Ajax where again he was sacked for falling out with key personnel and his only option was to take a job with the fourth best team in the Netherlands. Not exactly Real Madrid. Hell, not exactly Atletico Madrid. He was employed as the manager for the fourth best team in about the sixth best league in the world.

He was able to rebuild some semblance of his reputation there after 4 years and even then he almost left halfway through his reign after finishing midtable and falling out with everybody.

So Bayern took a punt on him after the disastrous experiment of Klinsmann. Where he went and then immediately fell out with everybody and left unceremoniously after 2 years after almost dropping the only team in a one horse league not just out of the title race but out of the race for Europe, saved by a big run at the end of the season.

Then he went and declared that his style wasn't suited to club football so he'd take the Netherlands job where he gets to do the managing and tactics and what have you and almost never actually have to man manage his players. He did pretty well here and I think it's probably his best place in the modern game outside of a return to the Netherlands at a smaller team.

United have the foresight of a child and have no executive leadership at all since Ferguson left, essentially picking the flavour of the month and spunking millions on them rather than considering their worth as part of a long term strategy. So of course they offered Van Gaal and of course he accepted because it gave him a route back in. And of course it is going to end how every single Van Gaal managerial episode ends - the people that he's pissed off are going to implode and get him the sack. I'll give him 12 months before it happens

He'll be still be there end of next season.
And I've no problem with having to sack him for winding up a bunch of trophy winners. It's a better alternative than sacking a manager for upsetting a bunch of non trophy winning mard-arses!

What exactly have United won this year or within a decent shout to win?

Basically United are in the same position as City. Neither of us have won anything. But their team has spent a huge amount of cash and their manager is a year closer to exploding

He's also benched or slated most of those new signings including calling Shaw overweight and unfit and Falcao lazy... Di Maria and Rojo on the bench. The only two he's played are Herrera and Blind. He's spent a hell of a lot of money yet his team was Blind, Jones, Smalling, Valencia in the back 4. Had we not been so dross we would and should have battered them. He doesn't have a clue what his strategy is. He doesn't get on well with people and he's far too disruptive. It won't be long before the apparent "success" of this season will be replaced with actual ambition to win things. When he doesn't the squad will turn on him and he'll lose players like Di Maria and Falcao and others will refuse to work for him. That's fine as he'll have the likes of Young and Fellaini there but as good as they might be form wise, they won't win you titles.

 

[FanchesterCity]

DISASSOCIATED PRESS RELEASE:

Manchester City have confirmed that Manuel Pellegrini will remain at the Etihad until the end of the season.
Representatives of the club confirmed that due to ongoing stadium work involving multiple cranes and a workforce of over 160 contractors, Health and Safety regulations have ruled out the possibility of an interim manager being parachuted in.

Mr Jo B. Sworth stated "A full risk assessment has been carried out, and we can confirm that the cranes pose a genuine risk, even to an experience parachuting manager like Mr Benitez. When we combined that with the potential damage to morale and loss of spectator consciousness on matchdays, it became apparent that the safest approach was to await the arrival of a specialist team from Abu Dhabi to resolve the situation'.

Mr Benitez was unavailable for comment until the end of his mid afternoon shift at an undisclosed restaurant, believed to offer tapas and other fine Spanish cuisine.


Well, that's that then.

Haha, that Gif's better than my post!