Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini 2015/16

[dave_blue12]

He's got to go.

Team looks completely rudderless

Players don't appear to know what their role is.

Player confidence slipping away.

 

[didsburyblu]

Thinking of the players he's bought in
From memory
Navas
Jovetic
Negredo
Fernandinho
Fernando
Demechelis
Mangala
Sagna
Caballero
Lampard
Zucullini
Bony
De Bruyne
Sterling
Otamendi

Look at all those players and look who has established themselves as regular starters and have been impressive. Fernandinho certainly, De Bruyne could be classed as a regular but he's being hung out to dry at the moment with the game plan but none of the rest really are ever the first name on the team sheet.
Still way to overly reliant on kompany silva aguero all players from.the pre MP era and when their missing usually so is our game plan and leadership

 

[didsburyblu]

Thinking of the players he's bought in
From memory
Navas
Jovetic
Negredo
Fernandinho
Fernando
Demechelis
Mangala
Sagna
Caballero
Lampard
Zucullini
Bony
De Bruyne
Sterling
Otamendi

Look at all those players and look who has established themselves as regular starters and have been impressive. Fernandinho certainly, De Bruyne could be classed as a regular but he's being hung out to dry at the moment with the game plan but none of the rest really are ever the first name on the team sheet.
Still way to overly reliant on kompany silva aguero all players from.the pre MP era and when their missing usually so is our game plan and leadership

Oh and Delph of course who due to injuries hasn't really had much chance yet

 

[Akira]

Thinking of the players he's bought in
From memory
Navas
Jovetic
Negredo
Fernandinho
Fernando
Demechelis
Mangala
Sagna
Caballero
Lampard
Zucullini
Bony
De Bruyne
Sterling
Otamendi

Look at all those players and look who has established themselves as regular starters and have been impressive. Fernandinho certainly, De Bruyne could be classed as a regular but he's being hung out to dry at the moment with the game plan but none of the rest really are ever the first name on the team sheet.
Still way to overly reliant on kompany silva aguero all players from.the pre MP era and when their missing usually so is our game plan and leadership

So... ...Mancini in?

 

[CatMan]

This fella is killing us!

Last night's task was not to lose under any circumstance; yet we get caught cold with too many people up front with a basic goal on the break from an average Juventus team.

Since he has arrived we have collapsed as a defensive unit and have looked like 11 trialists all trying to overplay and take silly chances just to look individually good but at the expense of the team.

Our shape at times is woeful and we seldom have a striker actually in the box. The delivery when it does come in is almost always wayward.

95% of success in sport is based on motivation and organisation.

5% is based on inspiration.

Sadly we are missing the former and are allowing leaderless players to go out with little or no game plan and just piss about doing their own thing in the forlorn hope that one of them might do something inspirational.

In short Pellegrini's DNA is missing that 95% ingredient and quite frankly he must be moved on immediately.

 

[dasein]

does anyone think pellers' good games outweigh his bad games?

 

[Bluewonder]

He is absolutely awful.

 

[acess87]

I think Pellegrinis first season was simple amazing, the way we played was just awesome. Anyway we never could repeat that very strong first season.

We should have scored at least once yesterday and it is unfair in my opinion to blame the manager for huge misses (Aguero, STERLING). But if I'm really honest, I was shocked how bad we did. Sorry to say but Juve are an average team this year after they lost some of their best players. Could you imagine what Barca and Bayern would do to them? They would rip then apart and create chances just for fun. We lost yesterday and might now face a very strong opponent, the question is: Does it really matter? We still are way too bad to have a chance against the top sides. Even if we would become first in the group and had luck in the round of last 16, it would be very likely to face a strong side in the quarters which would easily kill us.

Pellegrini had three years now and was able to spend hundreds of million pounds, yet we are unable to beat an average team. I'm sorry to say but I can't see any kind of improvement. Pretty sure Manuel will leave us after this year, especially if Pep becomes avaliable. But even if not, my feeling is he has to go, and I think that's the right decision.

 

[CatMan]

does anyone think pellers' good games outweigh his bad games?

The silence will speak volumes.

He's run his course, busted flush, expired, ran out of ideas; however it's termed the evidence is plain to see.

 

[Phil1]

Whilst last night was by no means the worse display ive seen from us in Europe, it did serve as a reminder of Pellegrinis limitations.
I accept we're without our best players in important positions and any team would likely struggle in the same scenario. My fear is he's not quite good enough to utilise the players we have left in a way that sets the team up best.
If you only need a point, you do what countless other managers have done over the years and kill the game. You flood the midfield, keeping it as tight as possible knowing that with players as quick on the counter as KDB, Navas and Aguero there will always be chances to nick a goal.
Instead we show a naivety that really should have been banished by now and end up playing into Juve's hands - who know exactly how to kill a European tie.
The truth is, at this point we are desperately relying on Silva and Kompany to return, and Aguero to stay fit for a decent spell. Without them we're lost and play like strangers. That for me is the saddest part of where we are right now. We're 8 years into what's been a fairytale so far, yet it's 3 players purchased close to the beginning of this journey that we can't seem to live without.
Southampton is a huge game for us now.