Manuel Pellegrini

[Asa's left peg]

Penalty shootout with Bravo in goals, apparently!

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Does that mafia hitman still sit next to him?

Cousillas lol, This pic was one of the worse moments of the charming man's Era. We were losing to the rags and Cousillas was dozing off, couldn't even be bothered.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Congratulations to him. There was a really good piece in the Guardian yesterday about him.
He won us our second premier title so will always have a big place in our history.

 

[East Level 2]

2013-14 season. Great feeling leaving Shite Hawk Lane after winning 5-1. And a 3-0 at the swamp. Thanks Mr Pellers.
And the first manager to get us into the CL knock-out stages.

 

[DTKOAG]

Congratulations to him, nice achievement. But he was shite for us. Most of his tenure we played shite football and lethargic players lumbering around the pitch. At times we could not even string 2 passes together. Fuck me it was struggle.

Id like to see book of his tenure at City. It never felt quite right and players felt like they downed tools when they felt like it. I don't think he ever had control of the dressing room due to unprofessional attitudes of Hart, Toure, Nasri especially.

Shit signings from Txiki during his spell didn't help his cause either.

Are you getting him mixed up with Mr Pearce ?

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

I thought he was fantastic for us under very difficult circumstances. I loved the way he gave dour answers to the muppet jounalists repeating "well we will see in the coming days what will happen and then we will decide" or words to that effect. Never once lost his cool. Always backed the players. Some awful purchases but not sure he controlled that. Javi Garcia was terrible but selling him for a profit was one of lifes great mysteries. Anyway congratulations Manuel the charming man.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Pellegrini won what he did on the strength of the squad inherited from Mancini and did ok for an interim manager with the charisma of a comatose sloth that had been on the piss all night.

I'll never forget the Real Madrid semi away that was there for the taking but he sat in the dugout with his sidekick Dr Crippen, both motionless and bereft of any motivation or ideas of what to do to change things and win the game.

But he was dubbed holistic and a charming man i suppose, but i was glad to see the back of him tbh.

 

[BosnianDiamond]

Sold Dzeko for a bag of chips only to bring in that scrub Bony, will never forgive him for that

 

[Vienna_70]

Congratulations Manuel and Réal Betis.

I’m very pleased for the Charming Man.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

I thought he was fantastic for us under very difficult circumstances. I loved the way he gave dour answers to the muppet jounalists repeating "well we will see in the coming days what will happen and then we will decide" or words to that effect. Never once lost his cool. Always backed the players. Some awful purchases but not sure he controlled that. Javi Garcia was terrible but selling him for a profit was one of lifes great mysteries. Anyway congratulations Manuel the charming man.

I still to this day maintain that Garcia was integral to the side in that 2013/14 run in playing the Gareth Barry role to a tee and I will die on that hill ha!