Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini 2015/16

[GaudinoMotors]

3-0 down at home,getting battered and looking like conceding more, looked over at the management area and he just sat there,no movement, no gestures,no instructions, he just sat there whilst Klopp with a far inferior team never once left his technical area.

"Far inferior team"? That's the mistaken attitude MP unfortunately approached the game with.

Whenever I looked at the technical area I was reminded of Jim Bowen's phrase "look what you could have won".

 

[Sir peace frog]

Come on pellers give them a right good fucking rollocking today and give one to yourself you silly man, take every game one by one, i think most people could see we as a team and you as a manager took one of your baggy wrinkled eyes off Liverpool and that sad loosely housed eye sitting in something that resembles a walnut was looking at turin.so time to go again,socks up,sleeves rolled up and lets show juve,the media and every football fan in the world that although you resemble a turtle without a shell on the outside inside is a footballing superhero.


COME ON BLUES

 

[mosssideblue]

Not at all, but there was NOTHING coming from our bench in the first half. No-one was even warming up, so it was obvious that no changes were to be made. I'm not a massive fan of the ranting and raving Klopp, Pulis and Pearce types, but looking over to our technical area yesterday would have provided ZERO inspiration, and probably a shrug of the shoulders.

Your argument appears to be based on what you thought was the scenario, or have I misunderstood you

 

[come-on-barney]

I agree the team selection was baffling to say the least, but if you believe being in the technical area makes you the better manager? OK

The passion of the manager on the touch line also gets the fans going as it did with Mancini. if it does this with the fans then it also had to play a part with the players. All in it together so to speak.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

"Far inferior team"? That's the mistaken attitude MP unfortunately approached the game with.

Whenever I looked at the technical area I was reminded of Jim Bowen's phrase "look what you could have won".

A speedboat?

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Go on, why does it?

Your decision to use the phrase ranting and raving is wrong. Klopp was encouraging, instructing and organising his team - and they were responding.
There's a difference.

 

[blueincy]

Bit of this wouldn't go amiss..

 

[christened at st marks]

Pellegrini said: "The performance was unbelievable. We have difficulty in understanding why we played so badly as a complete team. Defending, attacking, possession - I've never seen this team play like we did tonight." (City website)

Is he saying this job is beyond me please could you pay me off I have no answers I can't even see what the majority of City fans can see.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

A speedboat?

Caravan

 

[Steve68]

I agree but my point is that you don't have to be necessarily in the technical area to be doing something about it.

That is true. He could and should have made a substitution after the first goal when there was a chance of changing the shape of the game. The problem with Pel seems to be either a stubbornness that prevents him admitting he got things wrong or an inability to even spot it.

Either way, just sitting there doing nothing at all as he did yesterday just isn't what a top flight manager should have been doing in that situation. There just never seems to be a Plan B.

Pel has done fine things for us but yesterday's tactical selection, his inability or refusal to take action and later, his refusal to admit anything other than bafflement means his time has gone.