Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini 2015/16

[dancity19]

I'm genuinely intrigued as to who you think the club would replace him with if they sacked him now?

I guess a hypothetical question, BUT, if we didn't have Pep lined up (assuming we do), would you sack pellegrini?

 

[prof-taf]

Unhappy with result but not the performance, esp second half. Created enough opportunities to finish game off.
Now what to do with yaya, sadly no ACON. Legs have gone at this level and that leaves us exposed. For me, bench him or play as 10

 

[Phil1]

He could have brought in Humphreys and taken out Aguero, and we could have gone on to win, but that wouldn't make it the right decision.

The right thing to do, doesn't always guarantee the right result. The momentum was decidedly on our side in the 2nd half. There was only one player having a poor game. He pulled said player with 20/minutes to go and inserted City's best creator. And we continued creating but didn't get lucky with our finishing or the ref.

Everything he did tonight was right. With the momentum we had, you make too many changes, and things could breakdown.

It would be something else if we simply weren't getting a sniff in there box, or we had multiple guys totally off. None of that was the case.

Complaints about his selections or substitutions are frankly baseless. It's why most never mention who they thought he should have pulled. Just that he should bring in Kelechi.

There is a reason for that. None of the proposals are frankly reasonable.

And yet as a match going fan I'll hold my right to have my proposals or opinions and be Content with them.
You think he did everything right in a game that finished 0-0 and I think we could have done more to win it.

 

[The blue phantom]

I guess a hypothetical question, BUT, if we didn't have Pep lined up (assuming we do), would you sack pellegrini?

I guess we would have to stick with one of our greatest ever managers :)

 

[Tbilisi]

Demi off,3 at the back,Kelechi on....we win...I cant wait for this guy to go.This will be a wasted season.

 

[bellsouth]

Its pretty obvious to me who he should have pulled, Demichelis, not because he was playing badly but because you have IMO to take a risk and go all out for the win. We would have been gambling with 1 point sure but Otamendi and Fernando could have covered any breakaways and the reward of the extra 2 points was worth the risk. It was too conservative in my view from Manuel, and though some may say that the point gained could be the difference at the end of the season, I have a feeling the two points dropped could be more influential.

 

[Zubrman]

I was watching documentary about Graham (Turnip) Taylor the other day. One of the things he said was that when your team wins, the players get the praise. When the team doesn't win, the manager gets the blame.

 

[Ric]

I guess a hypothetical question, BUT, if we didn't have Pep lined up (assuming we do), would you sack pellegrini?

I wouldn't sack him now, because we're still fighting on four fronts. If we ended up winning nothing then I would replace him in the summer. All hypothetical of course, because I'm convinced Guardiola is coming regardless of how this season pans out.

 

[Phil1]

I was watching documentary about Graham (Turnip) Taylor the other day. One of the things he said was that when your team wins, the players get the praise. When the team doesn't win, the manager gets the blame.

He was a revolutionary that man.

 

[dancity19]

I wouldn't sack him now, because we're still fighting on four fronts. If we ended up winning nothing then I would replace him in the summer. All hypothetical of course, because I'm convinced Guardiola is coming regardless of how this season pans out.

Yep, fair enough. Difficult to sack a manager at this point, especially when there are few alternatives. And, of course, the guardiola situation.

Our form this season is really poor though, and it just doesn't seem he has the answers.