Next Manager after Pep

[AndyP68]

And they all still kiss their Mancini posters before they go to bed.

It's very tiresome and I wish people could let go and not let it cloud their judgement. I was one of the people who wanted Mancini at our club before he was even linked; it's a fairly short list of its type but I can put Merlin and Kun on it but they are all gone and they ain't coming back so you have to move on and try to be objective about what comes next.

No one should denigrate Mancini's achievements at City and no one since perhaps Big Mal has represented this club as manager in such an impactful way.

Bobby is a very good manger, as he is showing again with Italy, but City parted company with him for good reason and now have someone who, quite possibly, one day will be widely acknowledged as the sport's GOAT; there is zero chance that Mancini will be afforded that tribute. And quite simply for me, that is why City need to keep Pep as long as possible.

Whoever succeeds Pep will not be as good but he can still be very successful; not least because he may inherit a great and relatively young team schooled in positional play. That means the next manager probably needs to be one of those guys who follows that discipline or something very similar.

That's why Enrique is a possible. I think Nagelsmann is a good bet and, laugh all you like, I still think Brenda might get the job but plenty can change in the intervening period.

If he wins us the CL he’ll be viewed as GOAT

 

[Bluesince88]

Winning that first cup and first title in the circumstances was, in my opinion, a harder thing to do than take a very good team and established team and make it better.

Knocking United off their perch while they were still qualifying for CL finals.

Yaya, Silva, Aguero, three of the four greatest players in the last decade all signed by RM. Without them we wouldn’t have won the last three titles.

Pep’s broken records sure, but he wasn’t exactly starting from scratch was he. In that respect, RM’s achievement is greater.

Knocking United off their perch? He got sacked as they was crowned champions.

 

[AndyP68]

Knocking United off their perch? He got sacked as they was crowned champions.

Had we got Van Persie it would have been us. Mancini took us out from their shadows and they’ve never been the same since.

Until Pep wins the CL all he will have done is win the same competitions as Mancini but starting from a much easier position.

Pep said himself winning (under Mancini) the first one was the hardest of all and set the club up. Ie without RM nothing else would have followed.

Same as Liverpool with Shankley.

I hope Pep stays for another five years and wins us the CL.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Had we got Van Persie it would have been us. Mancini took us out from their shadows and they’ve never been the same since.

Until Pep wins the CL all he will have done is win the same competitions as Mancini but starting from a much easier position.

? The records we have set mean nothing? The b2b titles, carrier bag cup 4 times on the bounce, CL final? The vastly improved value of the club and team... All equates to the same as Mancini? Centurions, fourmidables, best PL points/goals???

"LOL"

 

[Bluesince88]

? The records we have set mean nothing? The b2b titles, carrier bag cup 4 times on the bounce, CL final? The vastly improved value of the club and team... All equates to the same as Mancini? Centurions, fourmidables, best PL points/goals???

"LOL"

It’s a lost cause mate. I get his point but it try’s to down value everything we have under Pep, whilst still ignoring the huge difference in playing styles on top of everything you mentioned above. He sees it as a title for a title instead of looking further.

 

[Phil1]

? The records we have set mean nothing? The b2b titles, carrier bag cup 4 times on the bounce, CL final? The vastly improved value of the club and team... All equates to the same as Mancini? Centurions, fourmidables, best PL points/goals???

"LOL"

Mancini telling ferguson to be quiet on the sidelines tops all of Peps achievement in some people’s eyes.
Apparently he got us whilst Pep is just hanging about until he gets the nod to go back to Barcelona.
That’s my guess anyway because nobody would be daft enough to think the actual football side under Mancini was an improvement on what we’ve seen recently.
In fact, there are plenty daft enough actually..

 

[Bluesince88]

Mancini telling ferguson to be quiet on the sidelines tops all of Peps achievement in some people’s eyes.
Apparently he got us whilst Pep is just hanging about until he gets the nod to go back to Barcelona.
That’s my guess anyway because nobody would be daft enough to think the actual football side under Mancini was an improvement on what we’ve seen recently.
In fact, there are plenty daft enough actually..

It’s mad they have that opinion when I think Pep does get us. How he speaks of legends of our club who he will of known little of before educating himself. Speaking of Maine Road previously and tributes to our past. As you say many have a hard on for him giving it Ferguson

 

[OB1]

It’s mad they have that opinion when I think Pep does get us. How he speaks of legends of our club who he will of known little of before educating himself. Speaking of Maine Road previously and tributes to our past. As you say many have a hard on for him giving it Ferguson

Oh there's a lot of nonsense spoke about Pep. Of course he gets us; just as much as any manager; apart perhaps from one who is a local. Pep though isn't here to play to the gallery: he's here to play beautiful football and win football matches doing it. He makes the decisions he thinks are best for the team not the ones he thinks supporters will like. I hope whoever follows him does the same and with a similar level of success.

 

[franksinatra]

Sarri, Tuchel, Fonseca, Rodgers are the most likely at this moment in time but as stated previously 3 years is along time and others will usurp those possibilities.

Just noticed my own post from June 2018. Fair to say Sarri stocks fallen after his move to Chelsea, Fonseca looks like he win end up at Spurs. Rodgers and Tuchel stock has risen, especially the latter sadly. Be interesting to see in two years who are the most likely prospects then.

 

[Maldeika]

Nagelsman has a top agent and Bayern were absolutely desperate for him. I suspect he wrote his own cheque.

Nagelsmann is desperately waiting for and working for that Bayern job for years. He will earn enough during his period for Bayern and his agent for sure has worked on that - but I do not think that was very important...



I do not have this clip in English - but it is from 2017 when he was still working for Hoffenheim where he tells that he is lucky but he would be a lot luckier working for Bayern as Bayern Munich is his club since childhood, he comes of the area, he was building his house at this time in Munich where his family lives since then etc.

I would not build on Nagelsmann in the future either - it is open knowledge that he does not dream of working as coach until his retirement but wants to leave football business in some years and do something different.