Five years that's all we got.

Look, I am not going to argue with the fact that we missed a big fucking chance to propel well and truly ahead of the rest of the League when Mancini won the first League title (and we bought absolute shit instead) but my god that is a depressing post.
 
Some extremely confusing posts in this thread. Some say they realise FFP came in after the first title.... but that we should have bought De Rossi Van Persie etc. Staggering stuff.
In 2013 our wage bill was £50m more than Utd and Chelsea - £75m more than Arsenal and £100m more than Liverpool. A huge advantage that was to never happen again due to FFP ( no matter how corrupt the new regs were ). The advantage was removed and now the playing field is much more level ( our wage bill is now the 4th highest in the PL ).
 
Peps going to have to extend his contract if we are to fulfill the aspirations of everybody associated at the club, three seasons won't be enough - nowhere near enough.No point looking back now at the poor signings we've made or the age of the squad he's inherited it's about next season and beyond .

A lot will depend on how his family have settled in Manchester for me - sooner or later he's going to put roots down - similar to how Cruyff did at Barca, the sooner he extends the better, then we will all know he's here for the long haul.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
Some extremely confusing posts in this thread. Some say they realise FFP came in after the first title.... but that we should have bought De Rossi Van Persie etc. Staggering stuff.
In 2013 our wage bill was £50m more than Utd and Chelsea - £75m more than Arsenal and £100m more than Liverpool. A huge advantage that was to never happen again due to FFP ( no matter how corrupt the new regs were ). The advantage was removed and now the playing field is much more level ( our wage bill is now the 4th highest in the PL ).
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Good points
 
robbieh said:
We finally won the league and then what happened.


2012/13 Mancini wanted de Rossi, Van Persie to press on but instead we got Garcia, Rodwell and Sinclair. The reason he didn’t get what he wanted is that the club had already decided to get rid of him. Fair enough, as while he seemed a perfect fit for City, Roberto has since done doodly squat which sort of suggests his limitations.


2013/14 So who to get to take us on into this brand new Txiki world. Pellegrini? Not a bad CV but not one of the elite managers. So why hire him? Well even at this stage he was keeping the seat warm for you know who and due to his style of play it was likely to eventually be a smooth transition. It worked. The players many of whom were still at their peak, unlike now, got that change of manager buzz and were in reality too good not too win the league, although it took some scouse wobbling this time to get us over the line. Throw in the LC, a pretty decent effort by players and the manager.


2014/15 Just like the previous post title season mysteriously we didn’t kick on. More poor purchases. Mangala and Fernando. What was Txiki thinking? Were these players Pellegrini wanted? They certainly weren’t Pep’s recommendations. And a pretty turgid season it was with embarrassing cup defeats.


2015/16 At last some intent in the transfer market. 3 years too late some might say. But Sterling and de Bruyne are class. Finally money is spent with the arrival of the messiah in sight. However the manager was beginning to run out of ideas and Pep’s shadow didn’t help resulting in our lowest league position since 2010/11.


2016/17 Some more mega signings and Pep to boot. But by this stage the total dereliction of duty by Txiki is beginning to become terminal. The 100 million plus spent on average CBs is coming home to roost as is the bewildering lack of attention to the ageing fullback situation. This all leaves the world’s best manager in a difficult position. Does he revert to a more Mancini like approach sure up the back and let the star forwards get on with it? Nah. He decides to play as if he still had Barca’s and Bayern’s fullbacks leading to the inevitable defensive cock ups.


From a position where we were league champions, and other clubs seemed to be in decline, we have somehow managed to win 1 title in 5 years.
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1976 to 2011 = absolute fuck all
2011 to 2017 = 5 major trophies
What the foock are you on about?
 
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flb said:
Peps going to have to extend his contract if we are to fulfill the aspirations of everybody associated at the club, three seasons won't be enough - nowhere near enough.No point looking back now at the poor signings we've made or the age of the squad he's inherited it's about next season and beyond .

A lot will depend on how his family have settled in Manchester for me - sooner or later he's going to put roots down - similar to how Cruyff did at Barca, the sooner he extends the better, then we will all know he's here for the long haul.
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Another very good point. Three years is not long enough. Lets hope the current sunshine carries on.
 
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