If we get a new manager...

[Pam]

Reports suggest Mourinho wants to leave Inter and come back to England, with City or Liverpool his likely destination!

Now, If we do the right thing and sack Hughes, do you think todays Champions League Draw (Chelsea v Inter Milan) will have an effect on whether or not we get Mourinho!?

No, I don't think he wants to change teams in the middle of the season anyway.

I agree. Whoever comes in, especially if it's Mourinhio, will want time to use whatever big, fuck off transfer budget he is offered to make considered additions not knee-jerk panic measures. That is a job for the summer window only.

The transfer window rule is pointless and stupid , btw.

 

[blue1970]

In answer to the question....Will it guarantee success? No! We've tried it countless times and its never worked. 22 men in charge since Tony Book 1974-1979. So in 30 years we've tried 22 people in charge (including some only temporary before any comments) andsurely this has coincided with City's worst period. Kevin Keegan lasted 4 years, which by our standard is pretty long.

New manager won't guarentee success.

Fergiescum 23 seasons
Wenger 13 seasons

Succesful? Lets decide hey.

 

[magoo]

I just cant see us getting a new manager...
Im sure if someone was available or wanted to come then the owners would have then doing the team talk at 2:50pm tomorrow but theres no-one with world class experience that would see us as a realistic reason to give up what they have elsewhere.And for that reason we will have a consistence of mediocrity until the end of the season (probably)

 

[There is a Light]

He might be mad, but he is a legend already for his record at Porto, Chelsea and Inter. I am actually a fan of his soundbites and I would love to see a manager who actually stuck up for City and was agressive in his approach to other clubs.

People would be very afraid if he became our manager and whats more the Rags would hate it. Imagine City having a manager who is better than Ferguson.

I still can't see it happening though.

 

[Pam]

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The squad is good! whats wrong is obvious! the manager! look at our attacking play! we dont have any strategy or filosofy what so ever! we need a manager who can give the scuad a strategy when they play! Huge really proved to be a second class manager!

We have to build a new defence and also cover for that new defence. There isn't much wrong at the front of the team, though I wish I felt happier about RSC's progress .. or apparent lack of it.

 

[Unknown_Genius]

I hope Mourinho never comes here. He seems well loved in Italy anyways....

The Italian media has sided with Marcello Lippi in what they see is a trumped up controversy by Jose Mourinho.

The Inter Coach was furious when the Italy boss predicted Juventus would win the Scudetto this season, accusing him of trying to ‘guide’ the Serie A tournament and favour one club over another.

“Quite frankly, this controversy feels like it has been dragged out of nowhere by force,” wrote Marco Ansaldo in La Stampa newspaper.

“We have to ask why the Inter Coach even wanted to create it. One possible explanation is he is suffering withdrawal symptoms, as it has been 10 days since his bile was spewed at Lazio for the Italian Super Cup defeat.

“More than Lippi, Mourinho’s real target is Juventus. He is trying to immediately crank up the tension the same way he did with Arsene Wenger, Sir Alex Ferguson and Rafa Benitez.

“Last season he had it easy with Claudio Ranieri, but for the moment Ferrara does not have the authority to become a genuine target, so he is picking on Lippi for an entirely innocent prediction. Here we go again…”

La Repubblica were even more scathing in their analysis of the incident, laughing at Mourinho’s ‘drama queen’ tendencies.

“His majesty was insulted!” joked Fabrizio Bocca. “Now we cannot say, or even dare think, that Inter are not the best, the most attractive and winning side in all the world. We must also glorify them every day.

“Mourinho’s problem is he is not just a great Coach, but so desperately wants to be loved, and for a side that wins as much as Inter do, that tends to be impossible.

“If he keeps pouring fuel on the fire of controversy the way he did throughout last season, then it’s unlikely he’ll get more sympathy.”

La Gazzetta dello Sport brought back the famous accusation of “intellectual prostitution” that Mourinho aimed at the media last year.

“Thank goodness we saw at the Trofeo Berlusconi that Leonardo and Ferrara were relaxed and friendly on the touchline, otherwise our vision of football would’ve been Mourinho furiously hurling himself at Lippi,” wrote Luigi Garlando.

“How can a prediction be offensive or even affect the outcome of a campaign? This is the Coach who threatened to get back to Medieval Press conferences because he felt unable to express his opinion, yet now he wants to stop a colleague saying who might win the title.

“And now if someone mentions intellectual prostitution? Did we need to poison the football season before it even started?”

And thats not all:

Alberto Zaccheroni wrote an article in an Italian newspaper after the Inter-Barcelona game stating that he thought Inter were too submissive and defensive. Mourinho replied:

"He criticises and forgets his own past. I remember that he lost 5-1 at home against Arsenal and this memorable defeat is remembered in Inter's history. And this guy is giving me lessons in football and telling me how I should play.

He is so intelligent that he talks and forgets his own history. It's incredible. He said that Inter had played badly, but Julio Cesar only had to make two saves against Barcelona. But now he is so tired that we cannot play him against Cagliari."

Zaccheroni replied:

"I simply gave my view, as it was asked of me, on Inter-Barcelona and certainly not Inter-Arsenal. I have never had the gall to criticise the work of my colleagues. From now on it won’t be a problem, I too will behave like one who has been ‘intellectually manipulated’.

I will say that Inter always play incredibly well, so that way I won’t run the risk of seeing my career or personality brought into question based on the result of one match.

Considering the way Mourinho acts, he would’ve been happy in the Italy of 80 years ago, when the ‘plebiscite’ was considered normal. I do not understand why a simple opinion expressed by others should prompt such a hysterical and off topic reaction.”

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