Mancini critism of Hughes

[BusterPhillips]

Kompany has been our best defender, why take him out of the back four, have you even been to a match this year - you soubd like a fucking plastic, grow up.

Kompany and Zabba are utility players, we need out and out midfielders who run all day and harass everything.

Get a life

 

[Boff]

He's got a point, all other squads have double the central midfielders than us, it's all very well having utility players but on the bench to cover many positions, not to use as the first team.

 

[Bonol]

Kompany has been our best defender, why take him out of the back four, have you even been to a match this year - you soubd like a fucking plastic, grow up.

Kompany and Zabba are utility players, we need out and out midfielders who run all day and harass everything.

Get a life

You get a life, if Kompany is a centre half, explain why the fuck we buy Toure and Lescott, so Kompany who cost approx 6 MILLION could sit on the bench all year.

 

[charliebigspuds]

Mancini states in the Guardian

Which just goes to show he doesn't even understand his own squad, what is Kompany, he is a fucking midfielder covering at centre half until his injury. Excuse's excuse's.

Mancini is perfectly correct. Kompany is a classy central defender posing as an occasional midfielder.

I agree, Kompany may not like it but he's a centre half.

 

[M18CTID]

As has already been stated on this thread, it depends on what style of football we're playing. It wasn't as much of an issue for Hughes and his style of play as it is for Mancini and his style of play. Anyway, he's already started to address the issue with the signing of Vieira.

Mancini's comments don't worry me too much - he's looking at it from the point of view of how he wants us to play, rather than how his predecessor wanted us to play. What worries me more is his tendency to play players totally out of position - Stephen Ireland started on the right against Hull and we all know that's never worked in the past, and is never going to work in the future. And don't get me started on this Petrov on the right wing malarkey - fine if he swaps sides for 5 or 10 minutes a game as it gives the opposition something to think about, but don't do it for the full 90. If Hughes was making those decisions he'd be getting slaughtered from all angles and would be taking a lot more criticism than Mancini is now - look at all the shit he got for playing Richards at left back in 2 successive games last season. That's not to say I don't like Mancini - he's still learning about the players and the English game so he gets the benefit of the doubt despite some puzzling decisions so far. I want to see him here long-term and not binned off in the summer. 6 months isn't long enough to judge any manager.

 

[Sheikh Rattle n Roll]

Has him down as a Midfielder on the OS

 

[Steve_CTID]

Kompany was ALWAYS a centre back who could fill in as a defensive midfielder before we bought him (at Anderlecht, Hamburg and for Belgium), it was Hughes who bought him and used him in the opposite manner, no-one else....

 

[Cheltblue]

And you know more than Mancini?

Sorry to say yes it appears so, i have identified another central midfielder for him. Look we have got a better fucking midfield than 95% of the premiership, what a shit excuse, if he really thought that he should of got his skates on in the ttransfer window.

It is the weakest area of the team.

 

[Dubai Blue]

Kompany has been our best defender, why take him out of the back four, have you even been to a match this year - you soubd like a fucking plastic, grow up.

Kompany and Zabba are utility players, we need out and out midfielders who run all day and harass everything.

Get a life

Cut out the needless abuse please pal.

Kompany may be able to play in midfield, but he's certainly not what could be classed as an out-and-out midfielder. In fact, I don't particularly rate him in midfield. Not as the sort we need anyway. Much, much better and more composed at centre back.

 

[Cheltblue]

And i would also suggest that Mancini is being very polite as he must have been amazed at the total imbalance of the squad that the previous management put together, hence the continual changing and trying of different players to find out who can play where.