Mancini Breaking News

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To sum up another chapter in the clubs history.

On the day Fergie lifts the title with the whole world watching, we sack our second most successful Manager

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of sacking Mancini, once again our owners and board handle the situation appallingly.

Yep. Its PR genius. Still lets be positive and they say third times a charm (or something like that) so when we sack Pellegrini we will have worked out how to do it without looking like dicks :)

Well there were mancini out threads in september last year a few months after our title winning season
So god knows what this place will be like if he starts badly...

 

[Bluedancer]

Sky news say that 'sources say Mancini will be sacked by Manchester city but NOT TODAY'

 

[BringBackSwales]

Prestwich Blue saying Pep will Fook Munich off in a couple of years and come here

unless hes spoken personally to Pep, which i doubt how would he know that.

With the greatest respect you have no idea who I've spoken to. But I do know how to use punctuation properly.

With no great respect to you he is allowed his opinion too, and in terms of your comment about using punctuation properly, what has that got to do with a football forum? You may have had a posh education for all I know, but please lay off with the grammar police rubbish, it is pompous and unwarranted in the extreme.

 

[samharris]

Have defended Bob from day 1, am gutted if hes off as hes brought us many great memories..Good luck Bob and thankyou..

I hope the new manager gets his name sung as well as you did..

Oi you! Bone to pick! Why did the odd socks not fucking work?!!?

:p

They did work... unfortunately, due the cunjuction between mars and jupiter, the c u n t s worked for Wigan :(

 

[Harry Godwin]

Quite frankly I am appalled at the club and the way it has handled this whole debacle.
If this is the way we're going to go about our business then soriano and his pal
are shits in my opinion. Pellegrini has a lot to prove before he gets
anything like the respect Mancini deserves from the fans. Would have liked
Bobby to get at least one more season,think we owed him that much at least.

 

[marco]

wtf just woke up put b/m on, has he gone?

 

[BlueDejong]

On BBC

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Manchester City are poised to sack manager Roberto Mancini and replace him with Malaga's Manuel Pellegrini.

 

[i8rags]

My opinion on bob, fuckin mint and fuckin shit, rolled into one. City legend for ever though, so thanks for that.

 

[Lomas has a lob on]

Gutted, all laughing at united with moyes the other day yet we've ended up with a manager who's won fuck all and no prem experience. Fuck off city, laughing stock again. We are all presuming these spanish blokes are going to do the business, but nothing is guaranteed. What a shit end to the season.

Trust me mate appointing Pellegrini will not make us a laughing stock, we may get ridiculed for the handling of it, but the appointment is no joke, Barcelona are after this guy.

 

[George Hannah]

I still maintain he either resigned or threatened to, leaving us no choice. The relationship between RM & TB is very poor I believe and key players aren't too keen on him. The sequence of events as I understand it is that he went straight back to Italy after the Everton game, where he thought about things for a while then told Khaldoon of his intention to resign or at least was seriously threatening to walk if he didn't get backing.

He was ordered out to Abu Dhabi straight after the game and spent a couple of days there. I had assumed (and the informed sources certainly supported this) that he had said he was determined to resign at the end of the season but it could be that he was telling them that he was doing them a favour being here as he and his wife would rather be in Italy etc and would happily walk away if he wasn't backed.

So the club had to make a decision and they took the same one as when Hughes tried the same tactic so after Mancini came back TB went out there and they decided to approach Pellegrini. I'm also convinced he's a short term appointment to keep the seat warm for Guardiola in 2 years time and that's another story.

I said the other day he'd only committed to 3 years after signing a 5 year contract but afterwards I wasn't sure if he meant 3 years from when he started or 3 years from when he signed the new contract. However the latter makes more sense now. Guardiola was waiting to see what happened but having won the league, the owners felt committed to him and duty bound to offer him a new contract. He signed the contract but possibly to avoid unnecessary speculation they made it a 5 year one (or they've got a 3 year break clause). That left PG high and dry and he decided to take a year out to see what transpired but was told by us that there was a job there in 3 years time.

I'm also pretty certain the owners were worried about a media backlash if they fialed to offer a title winning manager a new contract, which they possibly wouldn't have done if he hadn't won the league. So it looks like Wigan's win against the rags and Aguero's goal against QPR have had all sorts of unintended consequences.

PB I have to concede that this triumph of revisionism makes Lenin look like Enid Blyton.