lionheart said:
Read this and then reach your own conclusions...
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4926574/Manuel-Pellegrini-is-nothing-like-Roberto-Mancini-or-any-other-boss.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... -boss.html</a>
Sorry if already posted but I'm sick of reading negative comments about this guy.
That you Rupert ?
Personally i am thankful for what Bobby has done but will support Pelligrini to the hilt also if he comes here.
I support City, not any individual.
It feels a bit like walking away from the one that got away, you are right infront of each other and nothing you can do can bring you together again.
That said...
City till i die !
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MANUEL PELLEGRINI is nothing like Roberto Mancini — or any other Premier League boss.
For a start the jovial Chilean never blasts refs and has a habit of politely referring to his players as ‘Mr so and so’.
And the Manchester City-bound manager is good for a laugh.
Jose Mourinho, during his first season as Real Madrid chief, taunted Pellegrini about his achievements as coach at the Bernabeu.
But Pellegrini replied: “I’ve won the same number of La Liga as Mou — zero.”
And while Mancini suffered the antics of Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli, the current Malaga boss is less tolerant.
He booted out Argie Juan Roman Riquelme at Villarreal and Spaniard Apono at Malaga, saying: “In my team the players are with me — or they’re out.”
The 59-year-old ex-Chile international defender looks well equipped to deal with the pressure at the top of the Premier League.
And the consequences should he fail to improve on Mancini’s record of one league title and an FA Cup win.
In his one season at Real, Pellegrini won 31 of his 38 league games to amass a club record 96 points — and still got the boot.
The man they call ‘The Engineer’ — because he is a qualified civil engineer — will arrive at the Etihad after leading Malaga into the Champions League for the first time in their history and reaching this season’s quarter-finals.
He has also coached River Plate in Argentina, LDU Quito in Ecuador and Universidad de Chile in his homeland. But it was at Villarreal — his first European club — that he really made his reputation.
Pellegrini twice guided the ‘Yellow Submarine’ to top-three finishes in La Liga, won the Intertoto Cup and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2006, losing to Arsenal.
His entire 13-year playing career was spent with Universidad, where he made more than 450 appearances before becoming their coach. Whether that kind of loyalty is earned at the Etihad is another matter.
But last night former star players queued up to sing his praises and insist that their old boss Pellegrini can take the heat at City.
Ex-Manchester United and Malaga ace Ruud van Nistelrooy said: “Pellegrini is one of the best coaches I worked under. He’s a big strategist but nothing like Mancini.
“He’s always in conversation with his squad, offering plenty of chances to young players.
“That characterises his quality work and he’ll be good value in the Premier League.”
