Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini 2015/16

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blueinsa said:
For those wanting him gone, you will get your wish soon enough but if you think a new manager can suddenly turn lazy players into something they are not you are in for a shock.

Yet again we saw players unwilling to take responsibility, players unwilling to do the dirty work off the ball and players unwilling to track their runners.

Buck stops with the manager and it isn't good enough but at some point, the players have to pull their collective fucking fingers out and i include Kun, Merlin etc in that.

Im genuinely fucking angry at 60 minutes of that performance last night and the sheer lack of professionalism shown by some.
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Good to see that the penny is dropping to some that this squad is overrated in terms of what is required for the premiership week in week out.

Too many have no defensive capabilities whatsoever and its a disaster waiting to happen most weeks.

You couldn't get two softer goals in basic defensive frailties if you tried.

Mentally and physically weak simple as and that's the lot of them to a tee.
 
Having just watched the highlights of the Arsenal game again, the last 10 minutes was the benchmark of how we should be playing. There was plenty of desire, drive, movement and determination.

It is Pellegrini's job to make sure the team does that for 90 mins.
 
I'm not a habitual moaner about the manager but am fcuked if I'm going to be left behind ;) Two major criticisms for me:

1. Why are so many managers of "ordinary" sides able to impose a pattern and discipline on their players that we lack?
2. Making Yaya vice captain was a serious misjudgement.

That said, it's not beyond us to stick a scintillating run together. Even if we do, it's time for a change of manager and I hope the faith in Pep's arrival is not premature.
 
Kinkladze 1 said:
I remember reading something about a study done on all the corners taken by every team in the league over a season and it concluded that you're 3 times more likely to score from an inswinger than outswinger. No prizes for guessing which type we take.

Those first 4 corners of De Bruynes were carbon copies - outswing it in, get nowhere near it, repeat.
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He did try a variant of attempting to replace the ball with the corner flagon on occasion.

Its pretty clear the players are not happy clappers at present and why we don't coach attackers to press and let average sides run through a non existent midfield defies belief.
 
I have to say that I find it quite bizarre that those (minority) who still retain an element of faith in Pellegrini are so acid-tongued towards those (majority) who have completely lost faith in him. All I'm seeing is those who've lost faith being labelled as panicky, knee-jerk, short-sighted drama queens, whilst at the same time telling people they should have faith in a manager that won the league in his first season despite falling way off the pace in the 2nd season and repeating the same again in season 3.

There's also an essence of "you know nothing about football" that seems to spill out from those in the Pellegrini-in camp, which is frankly ridiculous.

He wont be sacked mid-season of course, simply because there are no viable alternatives in the immediate other than a manager the two Spanish fellas aren't interested in, but I'm struggling to understand why the inners are so vociferous towards the outers when, certainly from the outside looking in, their views looks particularly justified.
 
Is that 2 wins then now against Arsenal & Chelsea in 10 league games under his reign? Not good enough, we keep losing/not beating these teams in the big matches...losing 3-2 at Liverpool in 13/14, losing home and away to Chelsea in the same season, when did we last beat a big side whom we are challenging for the title at a stage of the season when it was considered a big match...rules out 3-0 versus a shit Chelsea side this season....
I've been a big MP supporter since he was brought in, as I was with Bobby Manc and will be for every future City manager but this guy is now starting to do my head in...tactically he keeps mistaking mistakes, he sets up wrongly in so many big games (Barca last season's CL at home was a complete farce), giving Ozil the freedom of the ground last night on the left hand side..Delph should have been across there marking him...
Last season was pretty poor considering the personnel we had at our disposal and some really bad defeats...Boro in the cup, Burnley away etc etc but this season is now starting to take the same shape.
Personally, I think we will beat Sunderland then spank Leicester and get things back on course...if we don't and end up losing at Leicester we could be out of the top 4 by New Year and that situation, for a club with our resources and after the start we made, is a frightening prospect.
 
My desire to watch the games will never wane but I expect much more entertainment and domination of oppositions even with MP in charge and even with this squad and all its deficiencies than is being served up this season.
 
Like his counterpart across town he is a clown, to think we are only 3 points ahead of them sums him up for me.
 
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