Puppet Master Silva said:
Bad career move from Bob, clearly not the manager we once thought he was.
And yet he's going to win ANOTHER trophy.
He's exactly the manager I always thought he was. A man that by hook or by crook wins trophies. It's that simple. He isn't holistic, he isn't respectful of tradition, he isn't a man who suffers fools or what he perceives to be lack of effort. He's a man who wins trophies, plain and simple.
In every season as a professional manager from his first full year at Fiorentina until this year, he was won at least one trophy (presuming he also wins the Turkish FA Cup but considering they've already twatted the side in the Final it's a safe bet).
The only exception to that was last season.
One season out of 15 or so he had a full year he has failed to win a trophy. Only Mourinho and Guardiola have anywhere near comparable records to Mancini in world football yet he is still constantly disrespected like the guy is David Moyes' reserve team manager.
As I said in the Pellegrini thread, trophies talk and bullshit walks. I'm sure Frank De Boer is a lovely bloke and I'm sure that Brendan Rodgers is wonderfully holistic. But neither of them have anywhere near the record of Mancini. Because Mancini, unlike other managers with excellent PR representatives who manage the spin to be seen a certain way, or those who have one off seasons now and again and are the flavour of the month like Michael Laudrup, just wins trophies.
It's as simple as that. He's a trophy winning machine. He'll do it in England with tons of money. He'll do it in Italy at bankrupt clubs. He'll do it in Turkey when the ultras never wanted him to begin with. He'll do it whenever the next person decides they want a trophy too.