The cookie monster said:
JoeMercer'sWay said:
VOOMER said:
If a bad player was signed under Hughes, rightly a lot was put down to our negotiators, but he did force through the RSC deal. With Bobby, last year when Garcia, Maicon and Sinclair turned up all 3 were being blamed on Bobby when even Marwood let slip they were 3rd choices. The slippery little *wats wanted Bobby out and used the transfer window to do that. Pellers isn't involved in this, but Tixxi has been involved for over a season and was still looking at Cavani after Bobby left. We support the club, I want to see us win trophies, they decided to undermine the manager, therefore misleading us, as to their intentions last season. I feel we are going to be treading water for the next two season's until Pep is free. Merchant Bankers!
Barcelona's resurgence was about the link with Michels, Cruyff, Vand Gaal and Rijkaard setting up a seamless club structure, which had nothing to do with the new 2. Those sat around me against Hull, thought it a shambles. at times not even worthy of Leslie's era. That said we won.
Txiki wasn't here last summer, it was Marwood's responsibility, and if he can't negotiate that's his problem and is likely why he was put into a more suitable role for him, and Txiki is most certainly not a merchant banker.
You are as ignorant, deluded and have a plain desire for us to fail because you think Mancini was harshly treated if you think what you've written is true, because it is complete bullshit and I don't care that you're a City fan to tell you that.
Your the third person on this thread who think folk want us to fail to prove a point
I think your the fucking deluded one.
When he continues to undermine or ignore the achievements and expertees of two of our most important staff members, then exaggerate every situation so it becomes completely their fault, only focus on perceived negatives even when they aren't really bad at all, throwing around the mantra that they set us up to fail and thus give off the impression that they think they are nasty pieces of work and don't want them to succeed then by default they come across as wanting them to fail and thus are accepting they want us to fail to prove the point.
I've never seen any company hire two such well renowned experts in their field and be so publicly lambasted for it by people who seem completely unable to grasp how quickly football has developed in the last 12 months let alone in the last 5/10 years.
They are people who seem unable to appreciate what the club needs to do to preserve its top status over a 20/30 year period and seem obsessed with setup's that are now essentially redundant in top level football and that, strange as it may sound, "just" winning 2 big trophies is enough.
Mancini's achievements were brilliant, absolutely fantastic and every City fan should be nothing but grateful for what he achieved. His sacking was also a mess but Mr Rosell had a fair hand in ensuring that was going to be the case unfortunately. What the duo have since shown is they knuckle down without any media fuss, do a very good summer of business and employ a manager who they(who also plucked out Rijkaard and Guardiola) believe is the right fit for this stage of our long term transition. That is our transition as a club and not just on the field, where I think everyone expects for us to still compete strongly. Ultimately after a two tricky games and a dissappointing defeat in one of them there are teething problems, not helped by injuries, but Pellegrini needs time, it has been 3 games and the proof will be in the season as a whole. Will we win every game 3/4-0? no, so don't be dissappointed if we only beat Hull 2-0, we may not have played particularly well but in out 3rd game with a new boss and no Vinnie the result is much more important.
The start of last season was worse, we played Southampton at home but they managed to go 2-1 up at our place on the opening weekend. Then we stole a draw at Liverpool and then QPR turned up and got to 1-1 against us as well. We then went to Stoke 4th like this year and drew 1-1 thanks to their handball goal, but we weren't great that day, and followed it up with a 1-1 draw at home to Arsenal.
If we win at Stoke it would be a great result and get a monkey of our back. If we draw it will still be a decent result, ultimately the concern will start mounting if we don't deliver against the Rags but I think patience is the key this season and we will flourish after the first month or two, in time to qualify from our group, take the huge confidence boost that will bring and go on and have a really good season.
