Mancini

[Anonymous]

injuries happen but its the recovery that i question this year,no-one seems to be properly recoved when they come back,something we need to look at before next season

Mancini spent a year complaining about the doctors at City before sacking them and bringing his own yes men in ... so to find him now complaining about how long players are out injured for is just unbelievable.

 

[Anonymous]

injuries happen but its the recovery that i question this year,no-one seems to be properly recoved when they come back,something we need to look at before next season

Mancini spent a year complaining about the doctors at City before sacking them and bringing his own yes men in ... so to find him now complaining about how long players are out injured for is just unbelievable.

got to agree with this, sacking the club doctor was a fucking abysmal decision.

 

[Andouble]

I like Mancini but think it may be time to move on. He hasn't adjusted enough and is to dependent on players coming in to do things the way he wants rather than work with what we have.

Nice win over the rags in the Cup, finish 2nd with a trophy and mutually part ways as he goes back to Italy or Zenit.

And the more I think about it the more I'm starting to want Pellegrini, even if his trophy count is much less than Mancini's, I think he brings more creativity to the table and gets more out of his players.

 

[bapi]

 

[kaz7]

I like Mancini but think it may be time to move on. He hasn't adjusted enough and is to dependent on players coming in to do things the way he wants rather than work with what we have.

Nice win over the rags in the Cup, finish 2nd with a trophy and mutually part ways as he goes back to Italy or Zenit.

And the more I think about it the more I'm starting to want Pellegrini, even if his trophy count is much less than Mancini's, I think he brings more creativity to the table and gets more out of his players.

so why has he won less trophies?

 

[daztrueblue91]

Truly incredible stuff.

If you think that the sheikh has spent all that money, and assembled this squad, with that as the objective then you are mind bogglingly deluded.

This 100%

I can understand why some people are loyal to Mancini and admire it but sometimes that loyalty turns into an obsession where he can do no wrong.

He has done loads wrong but enough right to be backed in the summer and next season

That depends on the size of the backing in the summer, in no way what so ever should we spend another 100 million (despite who we sell) with Mancini in charge. In his time at City he has shown himself to be a poor manager in the transfer market.

 

[bernabias home shirt]

Afternoon all

Have we all made friends yet ?
How are the Mancini outers doing with there banners?

Right back to work.

You can just imagine it cant you mate
A few of the outers unveiling their mancini out banner in 110-111
I wonder if they would get some strange looks :)

 

[whicko]

This 100%

I can understand why some people are loyal to Mancini and admire it but sometimes that loyalty turns into an obsession where he can do no wrong.

He has done loads wrong but enough right to be backed in the summer and next season

That depends on the size of the backing in the summer, in no way what so ever should we spend another 100 million (despite who we sell) with Mancini in charge. In his time at City he has shown himself to be a poor manager in the transfer market.

I blame Marwood!

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Says it all,for me....IMO


Manchester City - Worst title defence since Blackburn Rovers



Should Manchester City be embarrassed at the way their title hopes have disintegrated?

1995-96 is not a year Manchester City fans will care much for. The club were relegated on goal difference on the final day, methodology which saw them win the league last season.

The year also saw a quite pathetic Premier League title defence from reigning champions Blackburn Rovers.


After edging out United by a single point a year earlier, Rovers were simply not the same force the following campaign, finishing in seventh place.

By time May 1996 arrived, they finished 21 points behind league champions Manchester United and were never a factor in the title race with Newcastle pushing closest.

If the current Premier League season were to end tomorrow, Manchester City's title defence would equal the worst in the Premier League since Blackburn, just one point away from such an ignominy.

At 15 points behind Manchester United, the reigning champions are fast becoming a speck in the Red Devils' rear view mirrors.

The bad news for City is that United are unlikely to relent either, spurred on by memories of last season's dramatic collapse.

Roberto Mancini's men may wonder how it got quite this bad, but they may want to consider just quite how they are so far behind. After all they have lost just two games of the last 10 in the Premier League.

Yet the damage was done early on, with the Manchester derby at the Etihad a huge swing for United. Sir Alex Ferguson's men have gone better than City over the last 10, winning nine of their last 10 games, only dropping points when they conceded a last minute equaliser away to Tottenham.

It will not be fact that United are likely to retain the trophy which will haunt City or Roberto Mancini, but the manner of the challenge put to them.

Preceded by their pitiful Champions League efforts - two points from six games, the worst ever from an English side - City's title defence is asking serious questions.

The players are busy talking about not giving up, and hoping United will slip up under pressure, but right now the champions are not applying any of that pressure.

They were unlucky not to have been awarded a penalty which would have drawn the game away to Everton, but City were still unable to make more of the advantage they were given when Steven Pienaar was sent off, and eventually went down 2-0.

Mancini will be determined to try and close the gap at the top, because simply put 15 points is not good enough.

The most United have ever lost the title they were defending by under Sir Alex is also 15 points, in 2003-04 when they finished behind Arsenal's unbeaten 'Invincibles'. City must not do worse than this and take a crown United had no pleasure in, being the worst defending champions since Blackburn.

If Mancini and Manchester City want an initial challenge to aim for, firstly it should be not to end up with the gap above 15 points, but secondly to try and close it to single figures.

Sadly for City fans that's the situation. It isn't if United will win the title, but by how much.

 

[daztrueblue91]

I like Mancini but think it may be time to move on. He hasn't adjusted enough and is to dependent on players coming in to do things the way he wants rather than work with what we have.

Nice win over the rags in the Cup, finish 2nd with a trophy and mutually part ways as he goes back to Italy or Zenit.

And the more I think about it the more I'm starting to want Pellegrini, even if his trophy count is much less than Mancini's, I think he brings more creativity to the table and gets more out of his players.

so why has he won less trophies?

Perhaps he hasn't been fortunate enough to manage a team when there main rivals have all been docked points or relegated.

Or perhaps he hasn't had the fortune to spend hundreds of millions at a club.