Mancini Breaking News

[standytogilvy]

I think we'll go for Jurgen Klopp... Spanner in the engineers works

 

[xenon_]

I'm a little sad for Roberto, but he won't be sweeping the streets anytime soon so I won't be going overboard with any incantations of indignation. He has his health, he is a wealthy man: there are many people in this world far more deserving of my sympathy.

I will have almost exclusively positive memories of his time at the club. Any City fan of my vintage cannot, or at least should not, fail to understand what winning the FA Cup two years ago meant to this club. Last season is an experience that will never be surpassed and we are taken far more seriously as a club now under his watch.

I do have to say however, that as supporters we have to trust the people who own the club, who have delivered all we could have expected in a little under five years. Their plans for the club demonstrate a degree of long term planning that gives them every right to be given the benefit of doubt on this matter.

We can all form our views on Mancini's player recruitment, tactics and media skills, but there are many things we cannot know with any certainly, especially his ability to manage those who play under him and more importantly, at least as far as his job is concerned, those above him.

As to Pellegrini, we'll have to see, but there were plenty of City fans who questioned replacing Hughes with Mancini, a view which demonstrates knee jerk reactions to dismissals are not usually the most reliable. Our owners have been proven to be totally correct in getting rid of Hughes and surely the fact of the dismissal is, ultimately, far more important that the way it is handled. And poorly handled this appears to have been.

We need, as supporters, to get behind the new manager, which once the dust has settled I'm sure we will. Managers come and go, but the club is all that matters, or at least it's all that should matter to supporters. The cult of the personality is a modern trait which rears it's head on here too frequently, on both sides of the debate.

The reality is, the world will keep turning and we will continue to grow as a club and the people who have transformed Manchester City from a national joke to a genuine force in world football deserve our trust and support that they continue to make the right calls about the future direction that this club takes.

Couldn't agree more, mate. Nicely put.

 

[TGR]

What a chilling photo this is of the power players at City looking down (literally) at Mancini:

Success has a thousand fathers. Failure is an orphan.

 

[George Hannah]

What a chilling photo this is of the power players at City looking down (literally) at Mancini:

LoveCity, I don't normally have recourse to this term, but you really are a knob.

 

[samharris]

I know, that's what I mean mate. The fuckers are playing a game and their shitty fans are still all on here. ycnmiu.

Bit hard to get a ticket in senegal and trinidad fella..

Do they not have televisions?

just saying that the rags who have no intention of ever going to the swamp tend to be the worst and bitter type of plastic.. :)

 

[Jaques]

We should have done better this season.A mile behind UTD in the league.Lost in a final against rank outsiders and were poor in Europe.The owners expected more.Mancini spent too much time trying to deflect the blame and I did not like that.I am not convinced about his ability to man manage players.I have enjoyed the success but to get better we need to see much better team performances and a much quicker dynamic style of play.The gulf between ourselves and Boruussia looked huge.
It was good to have Mancini but it is time to move on.He is a mercenary.He has been well rewarded and will go onto another club where he will his monthly salary will be as much as an ordinary man earns in a lifetime.

I agree with you. The owners expected much more, and that mean most likely quarter finals of CL, and least FA cup, if not a title.

 

[SuperYaya]

In the film Casino Royale Bond is asked by M to think of the big picture. When Bond kills a bomb maker, M states they were after the organisation in charge of the bomb maker not just a single bombmaker. Our owners equate to M looking at the big picture and the next 20 years progression of the club. I'll let others decide who represent Bond, but probably loads on here who can't see two feet past Mancini would be my choice.

I like the film where the car drives underwater personally.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I think its more about sacking after one bad season in four.

But it's not just about the one bad season. He isn't the man who fits the mould of what our club see as being the future.

I disagree with that but thats beside the point.

The people in charge are paid the big money to make decisions and will live or die according to the success of those decisions.

So if he is sacked then so be it. I just dont want us to be a club that cant tolerate a bad season without having to make major changes. Because football is different from other business, and bad seasons happen.

I wouldn't regard this season as a bad season. Made a bugger of the CL, didn't even make the EL, MANUre buy their way to the title and Wigan fuck us over in the Cup Final. But apart from those, it's not been too bad. Second in the PL, CL for next season. Tottenham, The Arse, and The Dipper's would bite yer hand off upto the elbow for what we have!

 

[bondsman]

guys out of interest will the football be attractive under pelegrini

Yes... our defensive record may suffer but we'll probably score more goals and generally be more entertaining than we have been. Pellegrini hates defensive football, his teams are well organised and press but we're unlikely to see much defending 2-1 leads with 10 man defences.

i hope so, i want too see us playing the attractive football that we did last season, a high tempo, get in some flair players and i think we can win the league again.

Maybe we should have kept the manager who gave us that then?

 

[Rammy Blue]

What a chilling photo this is of the power players at City looking down (literally) at Mancini:

Horrible, sickly and powerful photo that.

Looking at that photo makes me laugh a bit, just makes me remember the Mancini quote about "only Khaldoon is above me". Ridiculous comment to have made.