Last manager who City fans really wanted sacked

[Kirkiep]

Who'll ever forget one of Hughes' greatest signings Rocky Santa Cruz .The poor man's 'Sicknote.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Who'll ever forget one of Hughes' greatest signings Rocky Santa Cruz .The poor man's 'Sicknote.

Just seen Hughes was Bradford manager last year, lol.

Wonder if Santa Cruz fancied a year living in the car crime capital of the world.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Just seen Hughes was Bradford manager last year, lol.

Wonder if Santa Cruz fancied a year living in the car crime capital of the world.

Unbelievably he's still playing professional football at the age of 42 for Paraguayan premier league club Libertad

 

[Del_Bosque]

Didn’t want Mancini sacked but it had clearly come to the end of his time here.

Hated Pellegrini, wasted some top years of our players. Fucked Kompany and Aguero rushing them back all the time as well.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Great to hear the insider knowledge on Mancini and Pellegrini - and so fortunate to have the sports science team in too.

 

[Gorbachev]

Didn’t want Mancini sacked but it had clearly come to the end of his time here.

Hated Pellegrini, wasted some top years of our players. Fucked Kompany and Aguero rushing them back all the time as well.

The last 2 seasons of Pellegrini's reign felt like a state of purgatory, knowing we had to endure it in order to get Pep.

Price worth paying no doubt, but definitely 2 seasons which should have seen us win at least another league title.

 

[ell]

There’s some good shouts on here but I’m a little surprised nobody has mentioned Coppell.

I know he only lasted two and a half minutes but I loathed him as a rag player and then to have him as our Manager was a fucking disgrace.

You've got to be seriously sick in the head if you can go that far back for the last manager you wanted sacked. Getting past Hughes & Pearce

 

[eastlandsblue]

Pearce for me. Going to a game was like attending a funeral

 

[Tolmie scores]

The last 2 seasons of Pellegrini's reign felt like a state of purgatory, knowing we had to endure it in order to get Pep.

Price worth paying no doubt, but definitely 2 seasons which should have seen us win at least another league title.

Been waiting 50 years for any league success (so unlucky in '77) I will be indebted to Mancini and Pellegrini for the success they gave us. Wasn't a given then as it takes time for a club to dominate -

 

[Tolmie scores]

With the exception of Alan Ball I’ve never really wanted to see a manager sacked. Most of the time it’s just an indication that they were never really right for the job and whoever appointed them fucked up. Many of them seem to have a brief period of success at one club and then live of it for the rest of their careers. Steve Bruce in particular springs to mind. Kendall going was a real kick in the nuts, I doubt we’d have been in anywhere near the shit we ended up in if he’d stayed. Mancini’s appointment was an inspired piece of management imo. He was always going to have a limited shelf life but was exactly what the players and the club needed to bully us out of the rags shadow (something that was never going to happen under Hughes).

Alan Ball was a proper loon ..Buster Phillips anyone? Ball ''He will be Britain's first £10m pound player!!'' This sort of naivety was not what we needed then!