Mancini's best and worst buy?

[Fuzzmaster101]

Best - Silva by some distance (and that was to be expected)
Worst - Pehaps a little unfair but Kolarov or Boateng (I look at Baines for Everton and I can't believe how much better he is than Kolarov. However I'll give the lad some more time he may come good yet, Boateng too)

 

[Stillsy]

its not even a contest: worst - kolarov & boateng are both as shit as each other

best - silva

 

[GX Blue]

Best - Silva
Worst - Kolarov

 

[mcfc28]

All this about AJ not being Mancini's buy.

Didn't we read earlier in the season that we operate in a similar way to clubs in europe, i.e. Mancini identifies the type of player, position etc.. and then its Marwood who compiles some sort of 100 page dossier about player to take to the board?

We have 1st and second choices for the positions identified?

I'm sure Milner was one of the players purchased this way.

 

[Dax777]

All this about AJ not being Mancini's buy.

Didn't we read earlier in the season that we operate in a similar way to clubs in europe, i.e. Mancini identifies the type of player, position etc.. and then its Marwood who compiles some sort of 100 page dossier about player to take to the board?

We have 1st and second choices for the positions identified?

I'm sure Milner was one of the players purchased this way.

I find such claims annoying. Since non of us are privy to how these decisions are made. Unless one of the posters here is Mancini, Cook or Marwood, or their playtoy (which I doubt). All we can claim is any player bought under the regime of a certain coach, is that coach's buy. Unless that is, there is tangible evidence to the contrary.
Hughes: Boateng, Lescott, De Jong, Tevez, RSC, Bayor, Bellamy, Kolo, Robihno, Barry and Bridge. There is some evidence suggesting Robihno was not totally a Hughes purchase, but he wasn't against it. He supported bring ing in a superstar to signal City was ready for the bigtime. So it is his buy.
Mancini: Viera, AJ, Silva, Yaya, Milner, Boateng, Balotelli, Kolarov and Dzeko.

 

[Worst Case Ontario]

Best Silva, worst Yaya

 

[gio's side step]

All this about AJ not being Mancini's buy.

Didn't we read earlier in the season that we operate in a similar way to clubs in europe, i.e. Mancini identifies the type of player, position etc.. and then its Marwood who compiles some sort of 100 page dossier about player to take to the board?

We have 1st and second choices for the positions identified?

I'm sure Milner was one of the players purchased this way.

I find such claims annoying. Since non of us are privy to how these decisions are made. Unless one of the posters here is Mancini, Cook or Marwood, or their playtoy (which I doubt). All we can claim is any player bought under the regime of a certain coach, is that coach's buy. Unless that is, there is tangible evidence to the contrary.
Hughes: Boateng, Lescott, De Jong, Tevez, RSC, Bayor, Bellamy, Kolo, Robihno, Barry and Bridge. There is some evidence suggesting Robihno was not totally a Hughes purchase, but he wasn't against it. He supported bring ing in a superstar to signal City was ready for the bigtime. So it is his buy.
Mancini: Viera, AJ, Silva, Yaya, Milner, Boateng, Balotelli, Kolarov and Dzeko.

You might find the claims annoying, but in particular cases, the claims are fair. I am very cynical to the idea Mancini even knew who Adam Johnson was. He was playing for Middlesborough in the first division. He was signed the month after Mancini took over. He may have scouts working for him in this country, but there were a lot of reports claiming it was Marwood who signed Johnson.

 

[Ntini77]

Best Silva
Worst Milner

 

[balkanno]

Best Dzeko.
Worst Balotelli.

 

[Akira]

All this about AJ not being Mancini's buy.

Didn't we read earlier in the season that we operate in a similar way to clubs in europe, i.e. Mancini identifies the type of player, position etc.. and then its Marwood who compiles some sort of 100 page dossier about player to take to the board?

We have 1st and second choices for the positions identified?

I'm sure Milner was one of the players purchased this way.

I find such claims annoying. Since non of us are privy to how these decisions are made. Unless one of the posters here is Mancini, Cook or Marwood, or their playtoy (which I doubt). All we can claim is any player bought under the regime of a certain coach, is that coach's buy. Unless that is, there is tangible evidence to the contrary.
Hughes: Boateng, Lescott, De Jong, Tevez, RSC, Bayor, Bellamy, Kolo, Robihno, Barry and Bridge. There is some evidence suggesting Robihno was not totally a Hughes purchase, but he wasn't against it. He supported bring ing in a superstar to signal City was ready for the bigtime. So it is his buy.
Mancini: Viera, AJ, Silva, Yaya, Milner, Boateng, Balotelli, Kolarov and Dzeko.

Hmm....