Very good read that and the inners will cite the trophies, the group of death in the Champions League, the loss of NDJ and not getting RVP and others. The outers will cite the lack of performances in Europe, the lack of league progress this season with the vast majority of a league winning team still intact and of course his continual indulgence of Mario Balotelli who the other players clearly resented.
As far as holistic is concerned, well in medical terms, a holistic therapy is a complimentary therapy, in other words it's something different and perhaps looking at things in a different way. I think bringing up our own talent is starting to become very important to the board now with FFP becoming a real issue.
I always see these EDS results and youth results and the Euro U21 league results and we have been poor. Our youth players have stalled. Rekik, Guidetti, Razak, Suarez, Lopes and others have all done nothing in the first team this season when last season or the season before they were being hailed as the next big things. Rekik made his first team debut at 16 with massive plaudits, but has gone on loans but has generally been nowhere near the first team when, if he'd been developed correctly he might well be on the first team fringes. Contrast those players to Nastasic who at his young age has slotted in perfectly. Had the other players developed and made the same impression, we might have done much better in the league. This is something that Pellegrini would address.
For me, and I've said it before, the way he treated Pantilimon for the cup final was an utter disgrace. Whether you think Hart should be the man for the final is irrelevant. Mancini had openly stated that Panty was his cup keeper. The fact Panty made a naive statement to a Romanian paper days before should also be irrelevant. Panty is a gentle giant who has been very loyal and done the job when required. He certainly did against Chelsea. So to drop him like that said a lot about Mancini. Perhaps Mancini knew he was a dead man walking and thought that had Panty made a mistake and we lost, he'd be gone. Unfortunately he obviously didn't think the other 10 would play like a bunch of clowns, but then maybe those players had the last laugh as they lost Mancini the cup and his job.
My friend in Spain speaks very highly of Pellegrini and also of Isco, who is Spain's next big thing. But just as players have not developed under Mancini, so they will under Pellegrini and if that means Isco gets better, watch out the Premier League!
