Mancini actually wanted Sinclair, Garcia and Rodwell did he? Funny I recall his press conference where he mentioned RVP and expressed his interest in Hazard and Martinez but got lumbered with the aforementioned plus Maicon and Nastasic and fell out with Marwood over it.Mancini's squad?
I keep hearing this and after the constant moaning that Mancini never got to buy the players he wanted and it ultimately being one of the reasons he lost his job, its now become and established fact on here that whatever Pellegrini has achieved has only been because of Mancini's squad.
Both Bob and now Pellegrini have not had the luxury of picking their own players as we dont work like that as a club.
I suspect that will change when Pep arrives but for now, they don't get to pick and choose.
If we play Sterling as a number 10 for the rest of the season they we cruise to the league title.
Sterling's pace and movement is superb and he would offer us directness alongside Kun.
I'm a huge David Silva fan but playing him in the number 10 role with Yaya and Fernandinho in the middle isn't cutting it.
Yaya and Silva both like to dictate play from behind the ball. Fernandinho strictly has to stay back to cover Yaya's weaknesses which means we have very little central attacking options.
I've lost count the amount of times a ball comes into the box and no one is there or Kun is isolated.
Move Silva out wide and let him drift in. In fact his game is more suited to letting Kolarov overlap than Sterling. In addition, Silva will naturally have more space being out wide as well.
A more obvious solution would be to have Yaya as the DM as his legs are clearly not what they were a few years back and let Fernandinho move up. However this ain't going to happen.
Mancini actually wanted Sinclair, Garcia and Rodwell did he? Funny I recall his press conference where he mentioned RVP and expressed his interest in Hazard and Martinez but got lumbered with the aforementioned plus Maicon and Nastasic and fell out with Marwood over it.
Why would a manager who brought Silva, Toure and Aguero to City want to follow up a title winning season by buying any of the other lot? Sorry, but those type of players just weren't Mancini's MO.
He wouldn't which is what i have just said.
Bob never got his squad and neither has Pellegrini as we dont work like that as a club but given that, isnt it a little unfair to claim anything Pellegrini has won is only because he has Mancini's squad?
The plain truth is that every manager has elements of their predecessors squads just the same as Mancini had Kompany, Zabaleta, De Jong, Barry etc who went on to become part of the core of our title winning squad.He wouldn't which is what i have just said.
Bob never got his squad and neither has Pellegrini as we dont work like that as a club but given that, isnt it a little unfair to claim anything Pellegrini has won is only because he has Mancini's squad?
But the core of the team is mancini's, or to take your point assembled by City whilst mancini was coach and the hallmark of Pellegrini is just to go on and on with what worked.Mancini's squad?
I keep hearing this and after the constant moaning that Mancini never got to buy the players he wanted and it ultimately being one of the reasons he lost his job, its now become and established fact on here that whatever Pellegrini has achieved has only been because of Mancini's squad.
Both Bob and now Pellegrini have not had the luxury of picking their own players as we dont work like that as a club.
I suspect that will change when Pep arrives but for now, they dont get to pick and choose.
if Pellegrini was a stop-gap then it was a perfect appointment, but as a manager in his own right. No. He had the opprotunity to re-build but he just tries to extend the shelf-life of the old team he inherited.The plain truth is that every manager has elements of their predecessors squads just the same as Mancini had Kompany, Zabaleta, De Jong, Barry etc who went on to become part of the core of our title winning squad.
When posters mention the same regarding Manuel the uneasy truth for some was that it essentially was Mancini's team, as Manuel was never going to be allowed to sell the lot and start from scratch which would have been madness in any case. What is interesting is that Hart, kompany, Yaya, Silva and Aguero continue to be the beating heart of this team and the players we mostly rely on.
4 seasons on, it doesn't say a lot for our recruitment policy since Mancini's last real window in summer 2011 does it?
Who, Bony, Mangala, Fernando, Navas? TBF all four have become whipping boys for many fans, but I've seen enough in all of them to know that they all just need that extra care and attention to their craft which a good coach should be able to nurture out of them.The players who have come in are quality, but it requires a re-engineering of the old team. Something Pellegrini doesn't want to do.
Who, Bony, Mangala, Fernando, Navas? TBF all four have become whipping boys for many fans, but I've seen enough in all of them to know that they all just need that extra care and attention to their craft which a good coach should be able to nurture out of them.
None of the aforementioned have consistently hit the heights as we'd hoped, but maybe another coach can prove whether they are worth persevering with or not.