Mancini: Are you an 'inner' or an 'outer'?

[Shirley]

In or Out?

Just be very careful of what you wish for.

Incredible as it may seem to some who post on here, we had similar arguments over Joe versus Big Mal. Basically, there was a boardroom power struggle and at the same time, Juventus were after Mal as their new manager. Mal said he'd stay ONLY if he became City's manager in place of Joe, and the incoming Peter Swales duly obliged by sidelining Joe into a position whereby he had no option but to quit City. The fans were divided, some of whom could be classed as 'outers' wanting a flamboyant manager of the Mourinho mould to have sole command, whereas the 'inners' wanted the safe and steady Joe to remain in the hope that if Mal did go, Joe would find another able assistant.

Anyway, Mal won, Joe went, and although the club managed to hold firm for a few more years, albeit with a steady turnover of managers, it was never again the same and many of us felt we were being robbed of potential greatness, which proved to be from the 1980s onwards.

Now that I've said my bit, class me as an 'Inner' based on our history, and I'll leave this thread for others to do the arguing.

bang on the money that man.

Why? Its a ridiculous argument.................utter nonsense. May as well be asking if they had similar star signs! Im not going to bother going over yet again why I dont want Mancini - but IF we keep him - lets see whose right in a years time. Even with another 200m spent I dont believe Mancini will get us the success in CL that the owners will require for his 500m spend.

If you really believe City will spend £200 million in the summer then you have not been following FFP and what MCFC are doing to comply.

 

[samharris]

You have a serious rag/wum problem on this forum.
...not fishing related btw

I like to call them impatient..Good city fans,just impatient.

 

[Bill]

Im sure some will bite fella..

unfortunately i`m deadly serious. you may not like it, i wish i didnt have cause to think it. but too many times i`ve seen hand brake football played by the best squad of footballers ever to grace this club an imo the best collection of players in premiership history.

Couldn't agree more with this summary!
Mancini hasn't got the best of the squad and is too confrontational for me
Can't for the life of me see who would be enticed to come and play for him over other top managers.
We have reached a glass ceiling as far as Mancini is concerned
It has to be a change to reach a new level
Baconface would have walked the league with our squad, no one can deny that!

to be fair you cant argue much with this. still think he deserves a little more time.

 

[Lucky13]

unfortunately i`m deadly serious. you may not like it, i wish i didnt have cause to think it. but too many times i`ve seen hand brake football played by the best squad of footballers ever to grace this club an imo the best collection of players in premiership history.

Couldn't agree more with this summary!
Mancini hasn't got the best of the squad and is too confrontational for me
Can't for the life of me see who would be enticed to come and play for him over other top managers.
We have reached a glass ceiling as far as Mancini is concerned
It has to be a change to reach a new level
Baconface would have walked the league with our squad, no one can deny that!

to be fair you cant argue much with this. still think he deserves a little more time.

KennyG's post sums up my opinion about Mancini, problem the Board will have is whether or not , to wait until the end of next season if we fail to get out of our CL group.

 

[Bill]

Couldn't agree more with this summary!
Mancini hasn't got the best of the squad and is too confrontational for me
Can't for the life of me see who would be enticed to come and play for him over other top managers.
We have reached a glass ceiling as far as Mancini is concerned
It has to be a change to reach a new level
Baconface would have walked the league with our squad, no one can deny that!

to be fair you cant argue much with this. still think he deserves a little more time.

KennyG's post sums up my opinion about Mancini, problem the Board will have is whether or not , to wait until the end of next season if we fail to get out of our CL group.

all i want is a fair crack at europe, the seeding shit is nothing but a cartel to keep the same clubs winning it. that said i think we will have learnt something from this year and we go much further, just had we had done if bob got the players in he wanted.
whoever fucked up that window had, the rags, the media and uefa rubbing their grubby cheating hands together.they knew we were fucked and so did i.

 

[Any1aBlue]

bang on the money that man.

Why? Its a ridiculous argument.................utter nonsense. May as well be asking if they had similar star signs! Im not going to bother going over yet again why I dont want Mancini - but IF we keep him - lets see whose right in a years time. Even with another 200m spent I dont believe Mancini will get us the success in CL that the owners will require for his 500m spend.

If you really believe City will spend £200 million in the summer then you have not been following FFP and what MCFC are doing to comply.

I said; 'EVEN IF' - they wont, which lessens Mancini's ability to gain CL success doesn't it? City will have 150m from which they need a spine.

 

[jonmcity]

We have the spine in place, we need the quality game changes to break teams down when the opposition have put 11 behind the ball. Some pace breaking forward would be nice when we are playing quality teams in the champions league.

 

[The Future's Blue]

I said; 'EVEN IF' - they wont, which lessens Mancini's ability to gain CL success doesn't it?

City will have 150m from which they need a spine.

I get it now, you're not a City fan are you. That explains a lot.

 

[Bill Walker]

Ive become an outer, I fear if Jose returns to Chavski this summer (looks like he will) we may well end up 3rd next year with Mancini in charge, teams have worked us out and it seems he has no plan B, also fiddles with the team too much imo for no apparent reason.
Ancelloti or Klopp for me.

 

[armadillo495]

In.

My view is that we've been hampered by injuries to key players - in particular the spine of the team - Kompany & Aguero. I don't think Mancini has been able to field the 'best 11' for more than a few matches out of the whole season.