Manuel Pellegrini

He treated the press conferences with the disdain they deserved, never giving the journalists a thing so they didn't like him. You have to respect him for not being a performing monkey like a lot of others, getting "passionate" to give them something to write about.
 
DontLookBackInAnger said:
I was pondering this today, while I think unquestionably Pep has to be considered our greatest manager of all time and at least for me Mancini is someone I rate really highly for changing the culture at the club, making his teams almost the most-un "typical City" sides of all time and putting us at the very top table in terms of perception. At the time I thought we made a huge mistake letting him go...

What do people think of Pellegrini's legacy?

To kick off I believe he is vastly underrated the 2014 title team was in many ways superior to the 2012 team(although, yes in large part that was because of the experience in 2012)and the League Cup success over Sunderland was another underrated performance with clearly a good deal of it played under a hangover from the loss to Wigan the year before in the FA Cup final and against a team we relatively struggled against (for whatever reason). In many respects of the four managers since the take-over Pellegrini's was the hardest role to fill.... For Hughes it was a free hit at a job he wouldn't have got had the money been there. Mancini came in with a clear plan. Pellegrini was clearly not the man they wanted and was filling a gap until they got the person they wanted. Pep inherited a very successful team but one that was starting to age but.... has had an organization specifically built to support him(that's not meant as a knock on him).

Anyway I still can't make my mind up if I would place him above Mancini or not!!!
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If I am being brutal, I thought Pellegrini was a bit of a fraud and I can't remember any occasions that would advocate the Engineer. He put his arm around people's shoulders after the Mancini fall out and reminds me of the Harry Redknapp ilk. The team led itself after Mancini's departure and the frailties were very apparent at the end of Pellegrini's tenure.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
Only thing I have against Manuel is that humiliation against ‘boro in his last match, but part of me thinks that was because the team knew he was going they didn’t have the motivatiin
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Are you fishing? That was Sven. Either way, doesn't compare to the Roque Santa Cruz ballon d'or performance in Mark Hughes' last game.
 
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