Mancini or Pep era?

[PepInYourStep]

So youd want instant decline. Mancini cant even be in the same sentence with Guardiola. He did well for us but he is nowhere near elite manager.

You're the one who just put him there so maybe you'd be more comfortable arguing with yourself. And there will be a decline after Pep no matter who the next manager is.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Bobby turned the ship 360 and that kun moment nothing can top that.

Pep city is football porn and nothing can top that .

 

[ancoats]

this is the impossible question to answer ?

mancini was and will always be special to manchester city and the story of 2011/ 2012 and the rebirth of manchester city. a manager with balls to stand up to fergie and united and a solid minded person a winner and strong on the players ? he knew the gap between player and manager and there was no love lost if he had to say a few home truths. but he lost the dressing room over mario and it was his down fall big time

i will say the 2012 title was not won by mancini the manager but by the players and united far to big ego in thinking it was rightfully theirs. and with 8 games to go and city players was at the races over mario and mancini the rest of the players blamed the arsenal defeat and the loss of the title on both of them. mancini lost the title that day but the city players won it that day. even the club knew mancini time was up and over and changes must happen to never have that gap between a manager and players ever again ?

so the owners went and built a plan and system and everything mancini built and work on was over. from top to bottom the club ripped it up and binned it and started afresh. the spanish people was brought in a new vision a long term plan and pep was sighted as a future manager

pep is the best manager/coach in the world end of story ? nobody comes close to his vision and knowledge of the game and how it should be played. any club in the world pep walks into the job nobody would say no to him as manager its that simple. its clear pep owns the rights to his own future

he can go anywhere and demand respect from everybody. his record speaks volumes and the impact he has on the players. its why city are a winning machine and want more and more. pep never settle for perfection its why others fall away ? because perfection is not the answer to winning its something only pep knows and has

so the score is ??
mancini. scores 10 out of 10
pep. scores ? well nobody else can ever get to that level

 

[nmc]

Bobby era

Everything starts with that first building block,that first climb up the first rung

Winning the fa cup

Sorting out those rags ,getting past them was difficult,we had so many years getting battered by them ,we had to grow up fast as a club

Bobby ripped down the banner

Humiliated pisscan with his worst ever defeat

The agony we had then of dreading derbies,the run up to to the April one i nearly had a heart attack!

We scared them into the April derby 2012,he never set up his team's to just get a point but he was bricking it

Vinny headed it in,bobby took on pisscan and he nearly keeled over in shock that someone stood up to him and beat him

Agueroooooool sealed it,ripped their heart out

Where we are now is brilliant but I would chose the fights and experiencing the firsts in the beginning everytime

Standing at Wembley seeing Bobby holding the FA cup out to us fans was an amazing moment. I recall a lot of older Blues like me who waited 30 plus years for us to win a trophy being so damned happy and relieved that day. I wasn’t old enough to go to Wembley in 76 - so I watched in on TV on the Sunday highlights. I saw us draw and lose in 81 and then waited 30 long years until 2011. Thanks Bobby

 

[Motty25]

Pep era without doubt better football...and the best two domestic campaigns in English history.

But Mancini delivered success at a time when we weren't used to it, and thus that I enjoyed most.

I also preferred him as a person, mainly because of the scarf.

It'll never happen but I'd love to see him back one day.

 

[Keeper!]

As many have said, Pep is the better manager when taken in isolation. No question.

But I would take the Mancini era every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Look at what he achieved and what he achieved it with. Would Pep overturn an 8pt defecit with 6 games left, against the best manager in the history of football and a team of near peak superstars? I Dont think so. I think he would have praised them to the hilt, talked about our lack of 'big club mentality' and we would have probably finished on 83-85 points.

I admire Pep and am glad he is our manager but I loved Mancini. He understood this club better than any of our modern era managers ever did. He did what many said was the impossible. He built a team, very quickly, that didn't just overcome the best team in England, but utterly destroyed it. And did so publicly. They still havent recovered from the humbling Mancini inflcited on them.

He turned a cool-to-support-becasue-they-were-a-soap-opera club into a powerhouse that actually won things and that left him hated by a very small section of our fanbase who were seemingly unable to forgive him for this.

Without Mancini's achievements and what they allowed the club to do going forward, Pep woldn't have come within miles of this club.

I hope he comes back one day.

 

[Keeper!]

 

[hilts]

With you all the way down to those last 3 words. I loved what Mancini achieved it was unforgettable. But he lost the players and staff on and off the pitch and we didn't have the stability to maintain our position, the owner's saw that and made the right decision at the time. I hope Pep stays to build a new team but when he does go I doubt someone as disruptive as Mancini or Mourinho or their style of management would appeal to our owners.

I would be amazed if Pep stayed beyond his contract. I think a break and a new challenge with a tinkering of his style of play is what he needs.

 

[bluemanchester]

Mancini bludgeoned through the barriers leaving behind embittered and hostile clubs who never thought their supremacy would be smashed in such a way. Pep got in the driving seat, put on cruise control to deliver the smoothest ride and beautiful football that we now see and along the way changed English football. What was the question again.

 

[blue aura]

Bobby made me believe anything was possible.

I expect under Pep.