Major mistakes of MCFC?

[Prestwich_Blue]

As much as you might hate the old man he was City through and through. Even though he didn't make us bigger than "Stretford Rangers" he certainly tried.

In my time supporting City the biggest mistake was getting rid of Tony Book and replacing him with Malcolm Allison who dismantled a fine team and introduced the likes of Steve Daley.

Swales always did his best for City with limited resources and broke the transfer record for Trevor Francis, his heart was in the right place and he loved City, far too many blues are ready to slag the guy off and probably are far too young to remember him.

i have met Swales, on more than one occasion,shook his hand and talked City. that man loved our club, don,t let anybody out there try and tell you different. Peter Swales wanted the best for Manchester City ...the francis signing said it all.

So why the fuck did he run us into the ground if all he wanted was the best for us?

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Swales always did his best for City with limited resources and broke the transfer record for Trevor Francis, his heart was in the right place and he loved City, far too many blues are ready to slag the guy off and probably are far too young to remember him.

i have met Swales, on more than one occasion,shook his hand and talked City. that man loved our club, don,t let anybody out there try and tell you different. Peter Swales wanted the best for Manchester City ...the francis signing said it all.

So why the fuck did he run us into the ground if all he wanted was the best for us?

have you ever stuck with something , when you know deep down, that you should move on for the better..but you stick with it cos your entwined with it. in love.

 

[paulchapo]

I think he DID want the best for City he was just hopelessly out of his depth.Football had moved on into a huge worldwide business and we were still floundering around like it was 1973 and missing the boat.

As i said earlier he may have loved City and wanted the best but his tenure was an unmitigated disaster from which we would be still suffering today without the takeover.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Allowing Howard Kendall to leave, we were just on the verge of becomimg a good team when he left.

 

[badmash]

Steve Coppell

Why was Steve Coppell the worst mistake. After all the bad things that have happened to us, relegation and such. How was a guy that was only manager for a month the worst thing ever to happen to city ?

Who said anything about ''the worst mistake''
op asked for Major mistakes and appointing Coppell was one of them

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

i have met Swales, on more than one occasion,shook his hand and talked City. that man loved our club, don,t let anybody out there try and tell you different. Peter Swales wanted the best for Manchester City ...the francis signing said it all.

So why the fuck did he run us into the ground if all he wanted was the best for us?

have you ever stuck with something , when you know deep down, that you should move on for the better..but you stick with it cos your entwined with it. in love.

He stuck with it for his ego and the fact it got him on the top table at the FA.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

not understanding the fans and putting up ticket prices of fans instead of keeping them low and protecting loyal supporters with a platinum level that new seasoncard holders can't join as they would be stuck on gold and have to earn the right to move to platinum by being a regular season ticket holder over many years.

Instead the club are only interesting in making money and they'll find it difficult when they shred the identity of the club and turn us into nothing different from the usual big clubs.

 

[bluemurray]

I'm not too young to remember Swales and I'm sorry, but this man was a disaster for City start to finish and everywhere in-between. He may well have been "City through and through". So am I and more than as likely, so are you. That does not qualify us to run the club and selling Slot TV's didn't give Swales the business brain or acumen to take City forward in 1972-73 when he launched his takeover and could not cover up his profound sense of arrogance when it was clear by 1983 that his time was up yet took another wasted decade of failure before he was literally forced out of the club via a sale which he ensured netted him the best financial settlement at great cost to the succeeding owners, albeit that they also massively cocked things up.

Apologise for Swales if you wish but he cost us big time and we have only in recent years got over the mess he made thanks to the likes of Bernstein and Khaldoon.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Giving Joey Barton more than one chance.

 

[Corky]

Sacking Peter Reid when we were a Premier League force in 1993 set us back until 2009.

The Kaka business.

I am proud to say I was an early and leading 'Reid Out' vocalist at the games. As a manger he was shite. Particularly when he brought in the tactical wizard of one Sam Ellis. It was long ball stuff all day long. He completely froze out Clive Allen in favour of Adrian Heath! Clive Allen used to sit next to me when he didn't play (which was often) when I had my season ticket in the old Main Stand and I used to chat to him a bit. I asked him one Saturday just what he had done for Adrian Heath to get picked in front of him week in and week out. He just shook his head and said he genuinely had no idea - no one on the coaching staff ever told him. Nice guy is Clive Allen.

I once gave it Reid full on for the virtually the whole game and when it was finished the guy behind me said to me 'do you know who that woman was sat next to you?' I answered 'no' he said 'Peter Reids wife!'

I genuinely didn't give a hoot. Reid was a managerial disaster. he lived off the work of Howard Kendall for 2 years.

Yeah I assume you preferred bottom five to top five.