Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini 2015/16

[hilts]

Ancelotti is lurking.

Is comes back to the pep thing though, ancelotti wouldn't be a caretaker till the summer, the guardiola thing is a fuck up

 

[BillyShears]

I'm afraid I can't help think he's lost the dressing room from the evidence of that performance. It also looked like Pel had just given up as well. And if that is the case then it could be a long few months.

Funnily enough almost identical things were said about Pellegrini within his first two or three months in charge. Similar was also said after the Old Trafford derby last season. Then we went on a winning run. That's sort of my point. I can understand all the frustration after Saturday, and I even understand the need to talk about Pellegrini being replaced at the end of the season, but it doesn't make me any less optimistic about what can be achieved between now and the end of the season.

 

[BobKowalski]

Not panicking after one bad result.

But not winning the league this season would be even more inexcusable than letting one of the worst united teams ever win it under Mancini.

I don't think we will ever again have a season where the defending champions are out of contention by November .

Oh I don't know. Given the way Chelsea have been exposed this season I'm starting to think allowing them to stutter to the title from January onwards was not exactly our finest moment. To be honest though I really can't see beyond us for the title. Arsenal shit the bed more times then we do. Chelsea are just shit with or without the bed and as for the other mob- well who fucking cares about them.

We'll win the PL. Just don't see anyone able to stop us even with Pellers and his occasional lapses into fuckwittery.

Would prefer it if we stop getting dicked though. Losing by the odd goal well shit happens. Getting royally shafted is starting to grate.

 

[hilts]

Funnily enough almost identical things were said about Pellegrini within his first two or three months in charge. Similar was also said after the Old Trafford derby last season. Then we went on a winning run. That's sort of my point. I can understand all the frustration after Saturday, and I even understand the need to talk about Pellegrini being replaced at the end of the season, but it doesn't make me any less optimistic about what can be achieved between now and the end of the season.

I think that is what frustrates us the most, we may win things in spite of him, and if we do posters will be on here saying pellegrini is great cause he won something, we all now he is staying to the end of the season, not because he is any good just through circumstance, could have pissed the league this year and with a bit of luck a cup or two as well

 

[Steve68]

Funnily enough almost identical things were said about Pellegrini within his first two or three months in charge. Similar was also said after the Old Trafford derby last season. Then we went on a winning run. That's sort of my point. I can understand all the frustration after Saturday, and I even understand the need to talk about Pellegrini being replaced at the end of the season, but it doesn't make me any less optimistic about what can be achieved between now and the end of the season.

I hope you are right. Saturday just felt like something more final than a defeat.

 

[the originalkippaxman]

Not sure why everybody keeps bring up the Sevilla game. Yes we were awesome but don't forget they were absolute gash that game and played right into our plans. Very similar to how we played into Scousers hands on Saturday. Take a look at the home leg of that fixture they were unlucky not to get a point and if it wasn't for a bit of magic from KDB it would have been,

 

[Dribble]

And it's a sad state of affairs that the boy reason to keep a manager is because we cannot think of anyone else short term, its pretty depressing

Sad indeed. But I realistically don't know what else we can do mate as I would rather Manuel continue than get 'Arry Redknapp or the like to step in until the end of the season. Thankfully things aren't that bad...... Yet! Lol

But seriously I don't think they will get that bad because Manuel has shown many times before that when he's desperate he'll play a more solid formation to get him out of a hole. The real depressing thing is that as soon as we're out of the woods, he seems hell bent on proving the worth of his preferred 424.

As one poster put it a few months back 'Just because Manuel won the 1982 Guatemalan 1st Division title playing 424, he thinks he can rock up to the premier league 30 years later and repeat the feat!' Lol :-) It's a bit of an extreme analogy, but I understood the point through his humorous post.

 

[pml79]

Funnily enough almost identical things were said about Pellegrini within his first two or three months in charge. Similar was also said after the Old Trafford derby last season. Then we went on a winning run. That's sort of my point. I can understand all the frustration after Saturday, and I even understand the need to talk about Pellegrini being replaced at the end of the season, but it doesn't make me any less optimistic about what can be achieved between now and the end of the season.

It's the way he didn't do anything about Saturdays game till halftime and his interview after the game . Saying he would pick the same 11 and not knowing why we played badly does it for me . He has done this to many times now . Playing two in the middle against a packed midfield getting over run too open in front of back four. If we sort this defence out we will win the league this time .

 

[hilts]

Not sure why everybody keeps bring up the Sevilla game. Yes we were awesome but don't forget they were absolute gash that game and played right into our plans. Very similar to how we played into Scousers hands on Saturday. Take a look at the home leg of that fixture they were unlucky not to get a point and if it wasn't for a bit of magic from KDB it would have been,

But that's the point the set up of the teams for each of those games had a large part to play in the performance, you would have thought a light bulb moment would have occurred

 

[BillyShears]

I think that is what frustrates us the most, we may win things in spite of him, and if we do posters will be on here saying pellegrini is great cause he won something, we all now he is staying to the end of the season, not because he is any good just through circumstance, could have pissed the league this year and with a bit of luck a cup or two as well

Pellegrini is great. He's a fantastic manager who's overseen the best football i've ever seen a City team play. His record speaks for itself. So you feel free to continue to pretend that all that's just luck and circumstance, but you're only kidding yourself.