Like it. It really is pathetic. Quite a funny quote on the bbc though from Rodgers - 'I thought I'd be on an open-topped bus tonight!' LOL.Der Bomber said:Manager of the year for failing miserably in two Cup competitions. For being absent from Europe due to your abject incompetence the year before. For lucking out that Arsenal didn't really want to go that extra length to pry loose Chomps the racist cannibal. And for, what? Choking away an apparently insurmountable lead and finishing behind another club that had 4x the injuries that had to play at 13 more matches.
Please tell me how Liverpool's budget is at all different from United?Pinturicchio said:Congrats to Brendan. He really deserves it. Did a great job finishing this high.
He got more than 20 pts ahead of the rags with the budget they have ?
But Pell would have deserved it just as much if not more.
I think you've got your sums wrong!BlueTG said:Please tell me how Liverpool's budget is at all different from United?Pinturicchio said:Congrats to Brendan. He really deserves it. Did a great job finishing this high.
He got more than 20 pts ahead of the rags with the budget they have ?
But Pell would have deserved it just as much if not more.
Both have spent almost identical figures for years now.
£38m for Mata, £35m for Carrol
£24m for RVP £25m for Suarez
£20m for Keane £20m for Young
and so on..
I'm sure teams overachieving never stopped your namesake winning manager of the year!sir baconface said:Much is about expectations. Although Pellegrini's had a great season, he inherited a squad that had come first and second and just been strengthened by the best part of £100m. City and Chelsea were joint favourites for the title.
The dippers, in contrast, had finished seventh and were on long odds. Palace were a basket case when Pulis took over.
While it's scandalous that Pellers didn't run them close, it's no surprise that the other two polled more votes. They vastly exceeded expectations. If I take off my sky blue specs I can't honestly argue with that.
I doubt if he's bothered. He's holding the silverware that counts.
Mrmcfc said:I'm sure teams overachieving never stopped your namesake winning manager of the year!sir baconface said:Much is about expectations. Although Pellegrini's had a great season, he inherited a squad that had come first and second and just been strengthened by the best part of £100m. City and Chelsea were joint favourites for the title.
The dippers, in contrast, had finished seventh and were on long odds. Palace were a basket case when Pulis took over.
While it's scandalous that Pellers didn't run them close, it's no surprise that the other two polled more votes. They vastly exceeded expectations. If I take off my sky blue specs I can't honestly argue with that.
I doubt if he's bothered. He's holding the silverware that counts.
Blue2112 said:Correct me if I'm wrong but in the last 15 years the award has been given on 12 occasions to the manager who won the title. On the three times it wasnt it was Ancelotti at Chelsea that never got it and the other two occasions was when we have won it and you really don't think there is an agenda going on? Mancini should have got it because it was our first title for 44 years and Pellegrini for doing a double in his first season here I think is a far better acheivement whilst still being able to acknowledge what Rodgers and Pulis have done.
No Blue. I'm with you 100% I don't think there is a conspiracy against Manchester City FC. I know there is. Anyone who doesn't is either nieve or in denial. I would have far more respect for the likes of SSN, Talk Shite, the press, broadcasting media and pundits if they actually said what they think "we hate the fact that little old City the chirpy club from the North West have become the biggest threat to English football with decades of dominance to come"Blue2112 said:Correct me if I'm wrong but in the last 15 years the award has been given on 12 occasions to the manager who won the title. On the three times it wasnt it was Ancelotti at Chelsea that never got it and the other two occasions was when we have won it and you really don't think there is an agenda going on? Mancini should have got it because it was our first title for 44 years and Pellegrini for doing a double in his first season here I think is a far better acheivement whilst still being able to acknowledge what Rodgers and Pulis have done.