Mancini

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Real Madrid coach, José Mourinho, remained enigmatic when asked about his future by the Portuguese press and said it would not be "a drama" if he did not win another Champions League this season. "To win two Champions is difficult enough, there are a lot of great coaches who haven't won any", he said.

"Everyone knows that I have an adventurous streak in me, but for my family it is not easy. Let’s see what happens, after England, Portugal, Italy and Spain it's difficult to find a new destination. I may have to repeat one. Things could be about to happen that nobody could dream of," he continued.

He also expressed his desire to coach his national side one day. "I would love to win something with Portugal one day, but it won't be easy because few Portuguese players are in the league there," he said

Impossible that we're not talking to his people. May not come to anything but it would be remiss of the powers that be to not be looking at the best and most successful manager of the last decade.

It just seems such a blindingly simple and obvious choice to make. Soriano and txiki may have their philosophies and their power bases but ultimately they also have their targets on the field and financially.

Obvious, true - but there just doesn't seem to be any inclination from the Club to make that choice. All the chatter seems to point towards him returning to Chelsea, with no effort from our side to convince him otherwise.

It seems, in a complete about turn from every other time this has been a possibility, that he was more keen on joining City than we were on him - rather than the other way round, as with every other time.

We seem quite happy to give Chelsea a free run at him, which suggests we have other plans in mind for next season - be those with or without Mancini.

 

[bapi]

Txiki and Soriano will do what they think is right. This is their job and if they'll be wrong Khaldoon will fire them.

 

[Skashion]

So we've gone from Mourinho and Guardiola, managers of undoubted brilliance, to Pellegrini, Laudrup and Moyes and nothing's changed. I feel like we could end up with the Chuckle Brothers managing us with the Teletubbies as our training staff and some would swear blind it's an upgrade on a man whose won four league titles.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Impossible that we're not talking to his people. May not come to anything but it would be remiss of the powers that be to not be looking at the best and most successful manager of the last decade.

It just seems such a blindingly simple and obvious choice to make. Soriano and txiki may have their philosophies and their power bases but ultimately they also have their targets on the field and financially.

Obvious, true - but there just doesn't seem to be any inclination from the Club to make that choice. All the chatter seems to point towards him returning to Chelsea, with no effort from our side to convince him otherwise.

It seems, in a complete about turn from every other time this has been a possibility, that he was more keen on joining City than we were on him - rather than the other way round, as with every other time.

We seem quite happy to give Chelsea a free run at him, which suggests we have other plans in mind for next season - be those with or without Mancini.

I only retain a slim hope of him coming here mate. I'm not seeing many signals either.

But if they turn him down and go for someone like pellegrini they are incredibly brave men.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Impossible that we're not talking to his people. May not come to anything but it would be remiss of the powers that be to not be looking at the best and most successful manager of the last decade.

It just seems such a blindingly simple and obvious choice to make. Soriano and txiki may have their philosophies and their power bases but ultimately they also have their targets on the field and financially.

Obvious, true - but there just doesn't seem to be any inclination from the Club to make that choice. All the chatter seems to point towards him returning to Chelsea, with no effort from our side to convince him otherwise.

It seems, in a complete about turn from every other time this has been a possibility, that he was more keen on joining City than we were on him - rather than the other way round, as with every other time.

We seem quite happy to give Chelsea a free run at him, which suggests we have other plans in mind for next season - be those with or without Mancini.

I only retain a slim hope of him coming here mate. I'm not seeing many signals either.

But if they turn him down and go for someone like pellegrini they are incredibly brave men.

 

[OB1]

Did you guys watch Utd v Real Madrid? After watching that, how can you still want this guy? He doesn't want this job and if he did, he'd fuck us off in a heartbeat for the Utd job if they came calling. 4 years we've had to put up with this shit, get in your heads, he's no chance of coming here so get behind the current manager.
Forza Mancini!

I want him because if there are any better more tactically sophisticated mangers in world football, they are very few and far between and Mancini is not one of them.

If he doesn't want to come here, and he may well not, then there's nothing we can do about it but if he is prepared to come to City, we should do all that we reasonably can to secure his services, IMO.

For what my opinion is worth, I think either he will choose not to come here or we will choose not to try and tempt him but I would like to be wrong about that just as I would like to be wrong that keeping Mancini on is not the best option for the club.

 

[bernabias home shirt]

Did you guys watch Utd v Real Madrid? After watching that, how can you still want this guy? He doesn't want this job and if he did, he'd fuck us off in a heartbeat for the Utd job if they came calling. 4 years we've had to put up with this shit, get in your heads, he's no chance of coming here so get behind the current manager.
Forza Mancini!

I want him because if there are any better more tactically sophisticated mangers in world football, they are very few and far between and Mancini is not one of them.

If he doesn't want to come here, and he may well not, then there's nothing we can do about it but if he is prepared to come to City, we should do all that we reasonably can to secure his services, IMO.

For what my opinion is worth, I think either he will choose not to come here or we will [/color]choose not to try and tempt him but I would like to be wrong about that just as I would like to be wrong that keeping Mancini on is not the best option for the club.

I think he has already been told he isnt on our radar
So he gets to choose nothing regarding our club..

 

[Dextersmate]

Did you guys watch Utd v Real Madrid? After watching that, how can you still want this guy? He doesn't want this job and if he did, he'd fuck us off in a heartbeat for the Utd job if they came calling. 4 years we've had to put up with this shit, get in your heads, he's no chance of coming here so get behind the current manager.
Forza Mancini!

I want him because if there are any better more tactically sophisticated mangers in world football, they are very few and far between and Mancini is not one of them.

If he doesn't want to come here, and he may well not, then there's nothing we can do about it but if he is prepared to come to City, we should do all that we reasonably can to secure his services, IMO.

For what my opinion is worth, I think either he will choose not to come here or we will [/color]choose not to try and tempt him but I would like to be wrong about that just as I would like to be wrong that keeping Mancini on is not the best option for the club.

I think he has already been told he isnt on our radar
So he gets to choose nothing regarding our club..

Correct,so when Dave and Billy,s gang finally realise this they will start the Barca boys out thread.

 

[LoveCity]

Don't dismiss Pellegrini too much based on his lack of trophies (in Europe at least, he won plenty in South America before coming to Europe in 2004), he's only had one year at a genuine league challenging club and got a huge points haul... unfortunately for him Barcelona got a few points more so he was sacked. His work at Villarreal was very good and is what got him the Real job in the first place.

Getting Malaga into the last 8 of the Champions League is incredible. They have spent nothing - ZERO! - on new players this season and have relied on loans, such as taking our reject Santa Cruz, who is their main backup striker option.

And since summer they have sold Rondon (their best striker) to Rubin, Cazorla (their best playmaker) to Arsenal, and Monreal (their best left-back) to Arsenal. To summarize: they have sold much of their team's backbone, spent £0 to replace it, and are in the final 8 of the Champions League with a paper thin squad that was already thin before they had to sell three key players. At the same time they're 3pts off a Champions League spot in the league while balancing that with their CL campaign, something even Borussia Dortmund have struggled to do. And their squad is full of players who were deemed expendable by other clubs, yet Pellegrini has made an effective team out of them which has a W1 D1 L1 record against the duopoly this season (beat Real Madrid 3-2, drew with Barca 2-2, lost to Barca 3-1, still to play Real again).

There is no doubt if Real Madrid hadn't sacked Pellegrini after one season he would have won plenty of trophies. Now I am not saying he would do better than Mancini or be a huge success but of all the 'risks' on a Spanish style manager we might take, he is probably one of the safest we could take. And I think people would find his style of football pleasing, it would be attacking and fluid... plus Isco would undoubtedly follow him.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I want him because if there are any better more tactically sophisticated mangers in world football, they are very few and far between and Mancini is not one of them.

If he doesn't want to come here, and he may well not, then there's nothing we can do about it but if he is prepared to come to City, we should do all that we reasonably can to secure his services, IMO.

For what my opinion is worth, I think either he will choose not to come here or we will [/color]choose not to try and tempt him but I would like to be wrong about that just as I would like to be wrong that keeping Mancini on is not the best option for the club.

I think he has already been told he isnt on our radar
So he gets to choose nothing regarding our club..

Correct,so when Dave and Billy,s gang finally realise this they will start the Barca boys out thread.

You talk like a 12 year old.

Apologies if you are of course ;-)