with the emphasis on the 'vici'urmston said:Veni, vidi, vici.
That's Mancini for me.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/12679/barca-twist-the-knife-in-mancini-exit/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/arti ... cini-exit/</a>?From what I can gather, Barcelona had been keeping tabs on Pellegrini to replace their own manager, Tito Vilanova, who is fighting cancer. When Barca found out about Begiristain courting Pellegrini for City, they decided to give the juicy story to Balague in order to stick the knife into City and give Begiristain a bloody nose in the process.
Good, eh? Nothing like love in the football world. Then we had the 48-hour wait to find out if it was all a sick hoax or there was some truth in it. As it transpired, Mancini was duly sacked and Brian Kidd was brought in to oversee the final two games of the season.
I believe that Mancini’s downfall was sealed when they dropped out of the Champions League at the group stage for the second season running. Trailing ten points behind Manchester United in the Premier League was immaterial; the damage had already been done. The powers that be were looking for a new prince to take the team and the club forward.
As a City fan, the sacking was a massive surprise. The timing, obviously, was all wrong but how do you control the uncontrollable?
jimbo101 said:woolleyback blue said:The title from the OP implies that there is only either right or wrong. Football's not like that. Mancini was the right man at the right time when Hughes was sacked. We needed a "name" manager with experience of building teams and winning trophies. Mancini fitted the profile at that time. He took a collection of players that Hughes couldn't get the best out of and moulded them into a cohesive unit.
He earned the right to be allowed to spend on new players and his choices were good on the whole. Silva, Aguerro and Toure being the stars. He won the Cup subsequently the PL with them. I think this blinded us all to his failings which were that he preferred to buy rather than develop players and that his man management skills were abraisive to say the least.
It became obvious that when City employed Begiristain and Soriano that they were aiming to emulate the Barcelona model in playing style and how players were brought through the youth teams. Mancini was wrong for this approach.
So if you ask me whether he was right or wrong I'd have to say both.
Why dont you read the blog, not just the title?