This appointment is bollocks...
I'm struggling to understand how a lot of people are excited by this.
I was a Hughes inner, and im gutted that he has gone. The thing is, is that Mancini now needs 4 to 5 years to get this right... Can you see a theme developing here??
I certainly won't be jumping on the bandwagon if we don't finish in the top 4 this season. These things take time. Look at Villa and Spurs... settled squads where the majority of the players have been together for 2 to 3 years, and look where they are...
What we have done basically, is give the players the power (If you don't like the manager, or if things aren't going well, don't worry Robinho or Adebayor, it won't be you who we get rid of, it will be the manager). I was delighted yesterday that Hughes signed off by dropping Adebayor and Robinho after the shite that they served up on Wednesday, not a fucking ounce of effort...
Sometimes Managers make mistakes. They get things wrong. Then there is a process of learning and getting it right. We have just been put back to square one, yet again.
Mark Hughes is a good manager and Roberto Mancini looks like he is better than Hughes given his record. But his record and past success will mean absolutely fuck all if he doesn't get more than 4 years...
This biggest thing for me is my connection with the club is fast disintegrating... There is a minority of people at the club who have been there for more than 18 months (the academy players)... There's no one at City that I can relate to anymore or say, yeah he's City through and through blah, blah... Probably Nedum Onuoha is the closet we get to that...