Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini (2014/15)

[bondsman]

It's been a strange season. A lot of people gave up on the title the first time we slipped behind Chelsea in the autumn and to some extent since then, even during our winning run in winter, many remained convinced that we wouldn't be strong enough to catch them.

It's been a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy because since the new year the performances have too many times reflected the defeatist attitude of the support all season. It's chicken and egg though because supporters will say they reflect the performances.

Ultimately it's been a disappointing campaign and if we're honest there has been a small but vocal minority who don't like Pellegrini full stop, and never have. This mixture was always going to lead to there being very little appetite to believe or focus on the run in if we fell behind Chelsea as we have.

Are you suggesting the fans caused our slump in performance? Drivel if so.

I'm not saying the fans caused the slump at all. I am saying the fans haven't helped. Not at the ground not on social media and not on this forum.

Nonsense mate. How on earth does this forum affect the players or club? Do you honestly take this that seriously? Also at games I rarely hear anything but support for players despite the performances. Same for the manager.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Are you suggesting the fans caused our slump in performance? Drivel if so.

I'm not saying the fans caused the slump at all. I am saying the fans haven't helped. Not at the ground not on social media and not on this forum.

Nonsense mate. How on earth does this forum affect the players or club? Do you honestly take this that seriously? Also at games I rarely hear anything but support for players despite the performances. Same for the manager.

Can you not read? He said the fans haven't caused the slump.

and of course we haven't helped, not had a direct impact maybe, but there has been very little passion in the stands at the game, we have been stale for most of the season.

I think you're just trying to twist his words into something they are not.

 

[BillyShears]

I'm not saying the fans caused the slump at all. I am saying the fans haven't helped. Not at the ground not on social media and not on this forum.

Nonsense mate. How on earth does this forum affect the players or club? Do you honestly take this that seriously? Also at games I rarely hear anything but support for players despite the performances. Same for the manager.

Can you not read? He said the fans haven't caused the slump.

and of course we haven't helped, not had a direct impact maybe, but there has been very little passion in the stands at the game, we have been stale for most of the season.

I think you're just trying to twist his words into something they are not.

Thanks mate. It's a vicious circle for me. You turn up expecting to be entertained. Your not. Jump on a forum or Twitter and lay into the manager and a few players. There's a drip drip effect in terms of what mindset you take to the Match. The supporters may not directly impact certain aspects of a performance but they can influence the energy the team has positively.

 

[NQCitizen]

Nonsense mate. How on earth does this forum affect the players or club? Do you honestly take this that seriously? Also at games I rarely hear anything but support for players despite the performances. Same for the manager.

Can you not read? He said the fans haven't caused the slump.

and of course we haven't helped, not had a direct impact maybe, but there has been very little passion in the stands at the game, we have been stale for most of the season.

I think you're just trying to twist his words into something they are not.

Thanks mate. It's a vicious circle for me. You turn up expecting to be entertained. Your not. Jump on a forum or Twitter and lay into the manager and a few players. There's a drip drip effect in terms of what mindset you take to the Match. The supporters may not directly impact certain aspects of a performance but they can influence the energy the team has positively.

Tbh I feel like everyone has this voice at the back of their mind saying "you'll never beat the Aguero moment".

No matter how good it gets it won't be that good.

 

[stony]

Tbh I feel like everyone has this voice at the back of their mind saying "you'll never beat the Aguero moment".

No matter how good it gets it won't be that good.

I don't ever want it to be that good again. To experience the same high as the Aguero moment would mean having to go through the hell that preceded it.
Give me a nice 10 point gap, no sweat, runaway title win any day of the week.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Blaming UEFA would be like blaming the weather. He pays a lot of money to people to make sure they buy the right umbrella and he still got wet. Furious would be about right, I imagine.

I am delighted and not much surprised that he was furious about last summer. Add in the FFP failure and this year's poor performance and I never really understood the general feeling that everything was under control and on course even a couple of weeks ago. This may have been the message that was put out but it didn't make much sense. Some big pressure on the management right now I would imagine.

I took it to mean furious with UEFA not those at the club, otherwise they wouldn't still be here.

 

[FanchesterCity]

So... Pep's coming next year (rolls eyes).

So we're in the market for an interim manager for 1 year, or slog it out with Pellegrini. Either players don't know he's coming (but some of the fans do), or the players do know he's coming and have lost faith on Pellers, knowing Pep's in the pipeline.

Bayern meanwhile remain clueless about all this, since it's all very hush hush, and Pep's comments on one day wanting to manage United are a cunning ruse. His move to Bayern has bored him, since he had no idea before moving there what the German league was like or that his team would dominate everybody else. Having learned this, he's now shocked and disappointed, and fancies a return to stress with City. As a lover of the stress in his previous role at Barca, he fancies more of the same at City, only with less capable players just to make it a bit more stressful.

He's particularly impressed by a club that's waited 3 years for him, and who were bitterly disappointed that Mancini won the title and ruined their plans. He even had to take a year off to get over the diappointment, and accept the underwhelming role at Bayern, another boring European giant.

Aye, all sounds legit to me.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Excellent. Some clarity at last after 126 pages.

So... Pep's coming next year (rolls eyes).

So we're in the market for an interim manager for 1 year, or slog it out with Pellegrini. Either players don't know he's coming (but some of the fans do), or the players do know he's coming and have lost faith on Pellers, knowing Pep's in the pipeline.

Bayern meanwhile remain clueless about all this, since it's all very hush hush, and Pep's comments on one day wanting to manage United are a cunning ruse. His move to Bayern has bored him, since he had no idea before moving there what the German league was like or that his team would dominate everybody else. Having learned this, he's now shocked and disappointed, and fancies a return to stress with City. As a lover of the stress in his previous role at Barca, he fancies more of the same at City, only with less capable players just to make it a bit more stressful.

He's particularly impressed by a club that's waited 3 years for him, and who were bitterly disappointed that Mancini won the title and ruined their plans. He even had to take a year off to get over the diappointment, and accept the underwhelming role at Bayern, another boring European giant.

Aye, all sounds legit to me.

 

[BobKowalski]

So... Pep's coming next year (rolls eyes).

So we're in the market for an interim manager for 1 year, or slog it out with Pellegrini. Either players don't know he's coming (but some of the fans do), or the players do know he's coming and have lost faith on Pellers, knowing Pep's in the pipeline.

Bayern meanwhile remain clueless about all this, since it's all very hush hush, and Pep's comments on one day wanting to manage United are a cunning ruse. His move to Bayern has bored him, since he had no idea before moving there what the German league was like or that his team would dominate everybody else. Having learned this, he's now shocked and disappointed, and fancies a return to stress with City. As a lover of the stress in his previous role at Barca, he fancies more of the same at City, only with less capable players just to make it a bit more stressful.

He's particularly impressed by a club that's waited 3 years for him, and who were bitterly disappointed that Mancini won the title and ruined their plans. He even had to take a year off to get over the diappointment, and accept the underwhelming role at Bayern, another boring European giant.

Aye, all sounds legit to me.

Pretty much where we are. Oh and the fans are being negative on social media. This from the guy who spent the Mancini years drowning us in a sea of negativity. I mean hello.

 

[OB1]

Nonsense mate. How on earth does this forum affect the players or club? Do you honestly take this that seriously? Also at games I rarely hear anything but support for players despite the performances. Same for the manager.

Can you not read? He said the fans haven't caused the slump.

and of course we haven't helped, not had a direct impact maybe, but there has been very little passion in the stands at the game, we have been stale for most of the season.

I think you're just trying to twist his words into something they are not.

Thanks mate. It's a vicious circle for me. You turn up expecting to be entertained. Your not. Jump on a forum or Twitter and lay into the manager and a few players. There's a drip drip effect in terms of what mindset you take to the Match. The supporters may not directly impact certain aspects of a performance but they can influence the energy the team has positively.

I can only see the atmosphere at the Etihad as a negative and one that could easily make some players edgy.