I have to keep saying it because no-one ever addresses the points made. It's just global "you're wrong" without any reasoning.
I don't buy the argument that we are still 'learning to play in the CL'. The current Dortmund team and their coach are in their second year in the CL and have just taken 4 points off Real Madrid. Malaga have qualified after four games by taking four points off Milan and winning their other two. How often have PSG been in the Champions League recently?
You can argue that City messed up at the Bernabau and that was maybe a lack of experience, but taking 1 point from 2 games against an average Ajax team is down to nothing other than ineptitude.
Mancini is the most overrated and lucky manager in European football right now. He was given the cheque book and the resources to turn City into a European giant and at the moment he is turning a great looking team into a shambles. Any half decent coach would have walked the Premier League last season with our squad, yet he is praised basically because we won it, and won it in such dramatic style. But that papers over the huge cracks in his managerial style.
This CL campaign is showing him up for what he is, a chequebook coach with no real ability to alter things for the better. Forget comparisons with Ferguson and his first two CL campaigns. He didn't have anywhere near the resources or playing staff that Mancini has at his disposal right now. Do you honestly believe if any one of Ferguson, Wenger, Mourinho, Guardiola, Klopp, Hiddink, Capello or even Benitez had been given that team and that chequebook that they would have us bottom of this group with 2 points, or would have not had that league won with games to spare last season?
The league was won in spite of him, not because of him. His tactics and substitutions are baffling, and he consistently gets about 75% out of his players rather than a 100%.
