Love the guy. Like all top-class managers, and lets face it, Baconface would be one of them up to fairly recently, Mancini will not accept anything as second-best. Nothing. Nowt. Zilch. Everyone will do their job and do it to the standard HE expects and demands and if you don't deliver....? You're OUT! ove the post about the players he used tonight, vast majority were here last year. Its scary (but in a really good way) that he can get these players who, lets face it, did not deliver anything much last year, and form them into a side winning games with relitive ease. What will we be like when our 'big guns' return to the side?
More importantly, I honestly feel we should be pushing for the title this year and I think the owners think that as well, hence the decision to remove Hughes. The fact is that apart from Chelsea no one can compete with us financially and in fact even they cannot, in reality, do so. Abramovich knows this. His wealth is lose change in the Arab's pockets. The scousers and rags are in meltdown financially. I don't happen to think either will go to the wall, nor for what it is worth do I wissh them to, but they cannot compete with the wealth we have, its really that simple. Teams of mid-table rank are now beating them and one another. Our owners clearly know their football and their business. They have seen a glorious and, in part unexpected, window of opportunity this season and have been bold to reach out to take advantage of this, despite the terrible press it gave us at the time. Why wait a year or two to have what you can have now? Sixth place with our squad would be a disgrace really! We are clearly have the strongest all-round squad in the Prem. We do have areas for improvement certainly and there are players at clubs who are a match for anything we have in certain positions - Torres, Gerrard, Rooney, Fabregas etc, but no other team currently has the 'depth' of squad currently available to City with the financial backing to buy more if needs be. We are on a roll. The season has a long way to go and while I would like to think we will go unbeaten throughout, we probably won't. But I think Mancini has been told that the bar of expectation has definately been raised - and for this season as well.
