Christ almighty, if that's the way it played out I wouldn't be surprised if those two wake up in the next few months to newspaper headlines of their unemployment as a surprise.BillyShears said:BobKowalski said:Didsbury Dave said:You've got it bang on mate.
There is nothing the club could do differently about this. It's just moral high grounding and blame gaming which diverts from the key fact.
The hierarchy have decided that Mancini isn't the man for the club. A brave and, I believe, correct decision.
Brave. Its bleeding heroic. I can see Ferran and Txiki hanging round outside Mancini's office nudging each other and whispering
"Go on you tell him?"
"Me boss? I'm not telling him its your idea"
"Hmm. Tell you what lets wait until after the cup final he'll be in better mood then hopefully. Now are you sure no one knows that we have Pellegrini lined up? No one saw you lunching with his agent last week?"
"Its cool boss. I used a disguise. No one suspects a thing."
"Excellent. Nothing can wrong. We win the cup. Tell Roberto he's out and then put out a short statement. All very professional. The Sheikh will be pleased. Come Txiki our work is done here. Lunch?"
"Great boss! Can I...?"
"Yes Txiki you can wear the disguise. A nuns outfit you say. Ingenious Txiki. Very ingenious."
Alternatively.
"You read this? Hahahahahahahaha. He says he doesn't work for us."
"What? Let me see that. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha."
"You spoken to Pelli?"
"He's in."
"Great. What do we do with the Italian?"
"Who cares. He doesn't work for us remember. Leave it to Khaldoun."
I'm not saying that it's happening either way those two scenarios lay out. You run a club like that though (either) and you end up a circus. Maybe you have a successful circus, but we keep getting told that the owner wants to avoid being a circus above all else.