Is Mancini Going Crazy?

[Anonymous]

Mancini talks bollocks in interviews, never says anything of consequence...just like his mentor Eriksson.
It's always banal nothingness with about 30 'eez important' thrown in.

'sometimes 1 point is better than 0 points, so the draw eez important'

'you can win and you can lose against Manchester, so I prefer not to lose'

Di Matteo sacked at West Brom, Ancelotti at Chelsea, Capello, Mancini....not pulling up many trees are they these Italian managers. What is the obsession?

How about being all grown up and giving the guy a chance?

 

[Eastlands90]

The Special One anyone?

 

[chrishull]

Mancini talks bollocks in interviews, never says anything of consequence...just like his mentor Eriksson.
It's always banal nothingness with about 30 'eez important' thrown in.

'sometimes 1 point is better than 0 points, so the draw eez important'

'you can win and you can lose against Manchester, so I prefer not to lose'

Di Matteo sacked at West Brom, Ancelotti at Chelsea, Capello, Mancini....not pulling up many trees are they these Italian managers. What is the obsession?

Yeah you're right. Let's get rid, get a new manager in, disrupt the team, he'll bring in his own coaching staff, the players will have to work with new people, new systems.... start from scratch.

These people running our club haven't got a clue eh mate?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

It does to me. He also went straight to his office after the 0-0 derby at COMS.

A large part of English football management is people management - manipulation if you like. Get into their heads and make them want to smash down walls for you - and believe they can.

He should have in that dressing room at half time, talking to them all one by one, geeing them up, telling them they are the better side. Talking about their individual battles, what to do second half.

Who was geeing them up? Les Chapman?

Amazing how he has done so well at previous clubs given his lack of any clue on the man management side.

Especially when compared with Dismal and your proven track record of........ oh.

Put your specs on because you missed the key word.

I've highlighted it for you for clarity.

 

[persvenality cult]

Amazing how he has done so well at previous clubs given his lack of any clue on the man management side.

Especially when compared with Dismal and your proven track record of........ oh.

Put your specs on because you missed the key word.

I've highlighted it for you for clarity.

just the most bizarre notion that it only matters in this country..

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Put your specs on because you missed the key word.

I've highlighted it for you for clarity.

just the most bizarre notion that it only matters in this country..

I didn't say it only matters in this country, I was comparing to Italy. The cultures are different and the players are different. Tht's why many managers with a track record of success there come here and fail. It's a simple point and one I have no doubts about.

 

[Damocles]

So English football management is different from all others? Despite having a mostly foreign playerbase?

Football management is football management, no matter where you are. It's about training, tactics (plus the player's understanding of these) and motivation; whether you're in Italy, England or Poland.

I'm pretty sure that he doesn't need tips on motivation from Dismal, who seems to enjoy telling us all what Mancini should be doing, no doubt forged from his long experience of football management in various European countries which makes him such an authority to tell Roberto fucking Mancini where he is going wrong.

On another note, I'm about to write to Andy Murray to tell him that he'll never win Wimbledon because English grass is too different from other grass and that he should change to using a squash racquet.

 

[Anonymous]

The cavalry has arrived...!

 

[hgblue]

The Special One anyone?

Don't mention Mourinho. I did it once, but I think I got away with it :-).

 

[persvenality cult]

just the most bizarre notion that it only matters in this country..

I didn't say it only matters in this country, I was comparing to Italy. The cultures are different and the players are different. Tht's why many managers with a track record of success there come here and fail. It's a simple point and one I have no doubts about.

if most of our players are foreign anyway, what exactly is the difference?

it seems borne of the notion that spirit and collective endeavour are exclusively english attributes. chauvanism, pure and simple.