Pellegrini confirmed

[squirtyflower]

Reading comments at Marca, the love and respect for him from Spanish fans of every club is immense. Someone wrote "Only a club like Real Madrid could underestimate, discredit, and throw away a coach like Pellegrini. What has become of this club?". Another says City will play better football than Barcelona in a few seasons under Pellegrini.

Whilst Talkshite harp on about him being shit for not winning owt at Real.

have they mentioned Moyes winning fuck all???? Thought not

Moyes won the First Division Championship ffs!

 

[hertsblue]

Whilst Talkshite harp on about him being shit for not winning owt at Real.

have they mentioned Moyes winning fuck all???? Thought not

Moyes won the First Division Championship ffs!

When they say he won nothing in his 1 year at Madrid, they don't mention Madrid achieved 100 points that season only to be beaten by an outstanding Barcelona team, or that he had Ronaldo missing through injury for a large part of the season, and the board did not get the players he wanted in key areas.
I had this on Sky yesterday with the reporter talking to the City Fans Spokesman and they said he has not won anything in Europe and the spokesman replied with neither has Moyes but that's not brought up so should not be judged on that.

 

[sincity]

http://www.aboutaball.co.uk/aboutaball-historical-football-rankings/spain
What he did with Villarreal was incredible. They will have been lower than 28th ranked before he took over and took them to regular European qualifiers and one season the CL semis.

And the unfortunate fact that they got relegated two years later, shows how influential Pellegrini was in inspiring his players to punch above their weight.
Eager to see how he's going to work with City players and make them play better to match their obvious potential.

 

[Deleted member 52846]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/new-manchester-city-boss-manuel-1887496


By
Martin Lipton
Insipid Manchester City will get antidote to Roberto Mancini in Manuel Pellegrini
14 Jun 2013 16:56
The coach known as The Engineer believes matches are won before kick-off and has the CV to turn listless Blues into a winning machine
e are the world: Pellegrini feels "only 10 per cent of the time is about the opponent"
Daily Record
In Spain, he is called "El Ingeniero" - The Engineer - a reminder of his degree qualification.
It is also a tribute to the calm, composed and professorial way Manuel Pellegrini goes about his job every day of his life.And while many Manchester City fans feel Roberto Mancini's exit is harsh and unfair, the Eastlands club's owners believe they need an engineer to build a genuine winning machine.
The former Chile centre-back - 28 caps before hanging up his boots in 1986 - is ready to embrace a very different challenge from the ones he has faced before.
This is the man, remember, who took Villarreal from nowhere to within touching distance of the Champions League Final.

A man who discovered earning the record points total in Real Madrid history was not enough when pitted against Pep Guardiola's team of all the talents.
And a man who nearly quit Malaga last October on a point of principle, when it turned out the promises he had made to his players - after being assured of their veracity by the club's owner - were simply hot air.
Whatever the City players thought of Mancini, they will soon discover that the new man will be pushing them in ways they may not have been pushed before, and subject to an attention to detail that the City top-brass feel is required.

Pellegrini's journey has taken him more than a quarter of a century to reach England by way of his homeland, then Ecuador, Argentina and Spain - each step of the way cultivating the players around him, fostering the strict demands he places upon them.

It is that ethos which caught the eye of the men who matter at the Etihad now, Txiki Begiristan and Ferran Soriano.City's shapeless, listless, desperate display against Wigan in Saturday's FA Cup Final would only have confirmed them in the boldness of the decision, already taken, to replace Mancini.

Begiristan and Soriano felt that Mancini's side were too insipid, dull, underwhelming.

That they relied on the individual talents of the players to dig them out of scrapes under a manager lacking the inspiration they wanted.

In Pellegrini, they have the antidote, the opposite. A micro-manager, who, while Real boss, wandered around his hotel in Madrid, notebook in hand, never stopping, his philosophy crystal clear.He always, invariably, without hesitation, wants a solid line of four, augmented by two holding midfielders, whose job is simple and effective, to create the platform for those in front, whether two plus two or three interchanging behind a lone spearhead.
Pelligrini believes games are won before the kick-off whistle is blown.
"I like the players to play the way they have trained all week," he recently explained.
"What matters is that they take on the mentality of a big club and play in a way that responds to the opponent but with confidence in our own football.
"You have to spend the majority of the time improving how we play and minimising errors.
"Only 10 per cent of the time is about the opponent. Tactics is not just theory, but more about the intelligence you show on the pitch. We have to have the intelligence to search for the answers inside the game - which variations to choose."
In simple terms: Listen to me and you will win.

Second rate: Real fired Pellegrini after a side containing Ronaldo finished runners-up to Barca
Elisa Estrada

"In reality the coach is the most important person at the club during the week," he added. "In training, the coach is 95 per cent, the players the other five per cent.
"Once the game starts, it is the other way round. The coach's influence is very limited. He can change things, make suggestions but his real influence is minimal. That is why the work has to be done in training."
It promises to be a different City, in every sense.
The key for Pelligrini is intelligent players, a sign that Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero and David Silva will be as instrumental for the new man as his predecessor.
At Villarreal, he was given the opportunity to build a team in his own image.
Even the stars of that team, such as Argentinians Juan Roman Riquelme (who missed the injury-time spot-kick against Arsenal in the 2006 semi-final) and Juan Pablo Sorin, Uruguayan Diego Forlan and Brazilian-born Spaniard Marcos Senna had to buckle under.
Riquelme was dumped when he refused to do so.
When Florentino Perez returned for a second spell at the Real helm in 2009, the Chilean was appointed.
It was another "Galacticos" era, with £200m spent to land Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Karim Benzema and Xabi Alonso.
But selecting two of former president Ramon Calderon's acquisitions, Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder, opened up a rift with Perez which festered.

Finishing as La Liga runners-up to a European Cup-winning Barcelona side was declared a failure.
His self-penned epitaph was graphic.
"I didn't have a voice or a vote," he said. "It's no good having an orchestra with the 10 best guitarists if I don't have a pianist."
Malaga, emboldened by a cash influx from Qatar, were going to be the new orchestra, only for the taps to be turned off overnight.
Even so, and facing a UEFA ban for financial misconduct, two bizarre refereeing decisions in stoppage time prevented them eliminating Borussia Dortmund in this season's last eight.

City's Arab owners are cut from a different cloth.
Spaniards Begiristain and Soriano know what they want, attacking football and freedom on the ball but with tactical discipline, the likely signing of Isco, from Malaga, bringing the dressing room disciple every manager wants to have.
Pellegrini, too, sees City as the platform he craves.
He expects to win, to get the maximum out of the players that lost their focus under Mancini. To go everywhere and dominate the game.

Civil engineers are good at construction.

Five things Pellegrini must do at City

Entertainment The City powers that be lost faith in Mancini because they felt his football was tedious and formulaic. They want to be excited by a winning side that has belief in itself.

Bravery Mancini's reign began to spiral out of control in Madrid last September. They went with a negative mind-set but led with minutes to go only to fall apart. Pellegrini knows he has to be the dominant force in matches. Being outplayed by Wigan is not acceptable.

Maturity City were a side that regressed this season, with too few players willing to carry the burdens of expectation. That has to change, immediately and Pellegrini's imprint needs to be swift and sure, not only to get the fans onside.

Europe Sheikh Mansour believes City should be a Champions League force, not an embarrassment. Mancini has never progressed beyond the last eight in the competition. Pellegrini will be expected to challenge Europe's elite.

Trophies The Abu Dhabi owners have invested more than £1billion on and off the pitch. They expect a team to deliver a regular and consistent return for "The Project". With United and Chelsea also changing managers, excuses will be thin on the ground.

Manuel Pellegrini's coaching career

Early years: Universidad Chile 1987-89, Palestino (Chile) 1990-91 & 1998, O'Higgins (Chile) 1992-93, Universidad Catolica (Chile) 1994-96, LDU Quito (Ecuador) 1999-2000.

San Lorenzo (Argentina), June 2001-May 2002 W21 D17 L12

River Plate (Argentina), June 2002-June 2003 W35 D7 L11

Villarreal (Spain), July 2004-May 2009 W123 D72 L64

Real Madrid (Spain), June 2009-May 2010 W36 D4 L7

Malaga (Spain), November 2010-Present W52 D29 L4

Don't think you're allowed to post good articles on here are you? Some people will have a meltdown as their paranoia is met with something that goes against it.

There's a few typical journalistic assumptions that are just made up but it tells us more than the 12minute interview with the man himself does on the OS. The bird asked the same question three times and I didn't learn anything about the man at all from the poor questions asked. One of her questions was about how good a job Brian Kidd has done since the Mancini sacking; he answered it well but you could tell he was thinking "is this a real question?".

 

[bluevengence]

Whilst Talkshite harp on about him being shit for not winning owt at Real.

have they mentioned Moyes winning fuck all???? Thought not

Moyes won the First Division Championship ffs!

He also won a Golem look alike contest at Skegness Butlins 1980...the real Golem came second

 

[Worst Case Ontario]

I am really excited about new season. If Pellegrini can make our overpaid ''superstars'' play like team with a character, which I think Mancini quite didnt do, then we are in for the bright future,

 

[Keith Moon]

Pellegrini Out!

(just wanted to be the first)

You weren't.

Story of my life..

 

[bluemathlady]

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Rags comparing Pelli to Moyes


...and a rag's thoughts about what Manuel REALLY feels about us fans.. lol

All managers lies and it is a necessary part of their job as they are the front-figures for a huge company. Obviously they get orders of what to say and what not to say by their boss.

A manager who talks bullshit is obviously one who does more than say "My club has the best fans, my club has a great squad, my boss is great". Because stuff like that gets repeated by every manager everywhere and they are forced to "play that game".

If he went out and said what he really thought he would never get any job again.

But, to be fair a lot of them seem to be able to look at this from an objective point of view

 

[Stoned Rose]

He's very very impressive in that OS interview. Calm and confident but not a hint of ego or arrogance. He just exudes knowledge and wisdom.

He promises exciting football and promises to go for goals even when winning.

The days of 6 million sideways passes are over. This 'new' team will play to it's proper potential with speed, swagger and a nasty killer instinct.

This is a new era and even feels like the 'start' of something even bigger than we already experience as city fans. The most excited I've ever been as a blue.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OnnDqH6Wj8[/youtube]

 

[WEMBLEY76]

New song attempt,to tune of no limits :-

Manuel Pellegrini,Pellegrini,pelle-pelle-grini
And repeat

Gets his coat and leaves the room

 

[Len Rum]

I am really excited about new season. If Pellegrini can make our overpaid ''superstars'' play like team with a character, which I think Mancini quite didnt do, then we are in for the bright future,

Sign off,Go directly to Rag Cafe, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, do not sign on to Bluemoon again.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Oops

 

[Comrade Buka]

Guardian readers seem to be mostly in agreement:

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Be worried...be very worried. I am a Malaga season ticket holder of many years. What he achieved for us with a collection of free transfer signings, loan pick-ups, some raw young talent, while marquee players got sold from under him, and wages went unpaid under the chaotic regime was a fabulous effort and all down to him.

Just don't expect witty post match interviews and touchline histrionics; he's strictly about business on the pitch. Lucky City to have him. We cheered him to rafters after his final home game.

Man City will surely do better in the Champions League with this guy in charge.

About Malaga:

So a manager who inherits a team that are bottom of the league and leaves them two years later having finished fourth and second respectively isn't as a good a manager as one who wins two league titles with a squad he has inherited from a previous manager who won four titles in a row, then, when he finally has to make changes, gets them relegated?

<br /><br />-- Sat Jun 15, 2013 12:17 pm --<br /><br />

Oops

Embarrassing that they misspell his name.

 

[Worst Case Ontario]

I am really excited about new season. If Pellegrini can make our overpaid ''superstars'' play like team with a character, which I think Mancini quite didnt do, then we are in for the bright future,

Sign off,Go directly to Rag Cafe, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, do not sign on to Bluemoon again.

Good luck telling yourself that we played like we should and we looked like one of most expensive teams in world. Not like we got outplayed by any half decent team in Europe in thse years and fucking dross in league under Mancini this year. Maybe sign off, and join rawk, their philosophy of seeing no wrong in their fucking faces will suit you

 

[OB1]

Reading comments at Marca, the love and respect for him from Spanish fans of every club is immense. Someone wrote "Only a club like Real Madrid could underestimate, discredit, and throw away a coach like Pellegrini. What has become of this club?". Another says City will play better football than Barcelona in a few seasons under Pellegrini.

He's getting very little respect in England yet, even many City fans were pretty much slanderous towards him until he was appointed (I remember many arguments on here over his lack of trophies and the word 'context'...), but I think if he's given time and a fair chance he'll be the envy of the league in time.

I was concerned at the idea of sacking someone that was a serial trophy winner for someone who has not won a meaningful trophy in Europe. However, Pellegrini was on my short list for the eventuality that Mancini left. Indeed I recall thinking back in his Villareal days that he would be a good option for City. The more I looked at things, the more obvious it became that sacking Mancini and replacing him with Pellegrini was one of the best options for City, the more so if you narrow down to available options (i.e. Pep and Klopp not being options at this point).

You can excuse MP for not winning anything with Villareal and Malaga. Mourinho has just had a season of winning nothing with Real Madrid so Pellegrini is in good company there. Clearly, the sooner Manuel wins his first trophy at City, the better. If the squad gets the further tweaks that many of us hope for, Pellegrini should have no excuse for notw being able to rotate players successfully and I think he'd be well advised to make a very serious assault on the League Cup; wouldn't be surprised though if Moyes and Mourinho do the same.

 

[NorwegianTruBlue]

I hope gets all his "tarjets" and become "sukseksfull"

 

[don't care about my username]

one of his staff look like santa cruz, hopefully he isn't a physio ;)

 

[Blueroses]

brilliant piece on Pellegrini

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2013/06/14/3975937/pellegrinis-not-british-but-he-has-everything-to-succeed-at?ICID=AR_RS_1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/pre ... ID=AR_RS_1</a>


14 Jun 2013 16:30:00
The Chilean coach is set to take over from Roberto Mancini this summer and, despite some negative press in the UK media, has all the attributes to shine in the Premier League

COMMENT
By Ben Hayward | Spanish Football Writer

Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Manuel Pellegrini know all about difficult owners, off-the-field problems, press scrutiny and elevated expectations from his time at Real Madrid and Malaga. So the Chilean should know exactly what to expect at Manchester City.

He has already been written off by some sectors of the British media as a big-spending foreigner with a modest trophy record, the same press pack hailing the appointment of David Moyes at City's local rivals Manchester United. The Scot, incidentally, has never won a major trophy. But that's okay because, well, he hails from the British Isles. Pellegrini? He's from Chile. When did a South American ever succeed as manager in the Premier League? Oh, and he has an Italian surname. Like Mancini. Cardinal sins, clearly...

Pellegrini won't care, of course. The Chilean coach is a former central defender turned trainer with a very accomplished record (including several trophies in South America) at almost all of his sides, mostly modest teams by the way, which makes comparing his win percentage with Mancini's a futile exercise. He is also a fully qualified civil engineer. How many British bosses can claim that?

Laid-back and likeable, Pellegrini will work with dignity and bring a brand of football which will please fans after the pragmatic play City fans have been fed by Mancini. A beautiful building must be strong and solid too, however, and El Ingeniero's sides sit on strong bases. Defensive stability allows creative flow. It is an approach mixing science and art, brawn and beauty. And it works.

But what about Real Madrid? Pellegrini 'spent' €200 million and still won nothing, they say. This is, at best, a half-truth. The Chilean was caught in the centre of a power battle at the Santiago Bernabeu, was ignored by president Florentino Perez, viciously attacked by the Madrid media and had little or no say when it came to player comings and goings, despite the outrageous outlay in the summer of 2009, which saw Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka signed but Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder shipped out against his wishes.

"I didn't have a voice or a vote at Madrid," he told El Mercurio in an interview in 2010, while also lamenting his inability to build the side he had wanted at Real. "I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists but I don't have a pianist or a drummer."

It was essentially all over for Pellegrini after his Madrid side lost 4-0 at lowly Alcorcon in the Copa del Rey. Not even 96 points in La Liga (Real's best-ever total at the time) could save him, even though his team had been without Cristiano Ronaldo for almost two months and pushed Pep Guardiola's brilliant Barcelona all the way to the end of the season.

Duly discarded by Madrid, Pellegrini decided to rebuild his reputation at Malaga and took the Andalusians to within seconds of the Champions League semi-finals this term, despite summer sales (including the team's finest football, Santi Cazorla), uncertainty over unpaid player bonuses and chaotic behaviour from club owners, who left him very much in the dark over the finances and the future of the team - as well as his own.

All of that will help Pellegrini ahead of his Manchester City adventure. The Chilean has been strengthened by his experiences at Madrid and Malaga, and should feel much more comfortable with (Spanish speaker) Txiki Begiristain in the role of sporting director. It is a Barcelona blueprint in tune with Pellegrini's philosophy, while the Chilean's football ideology is also in keeping with the views of Begiristain, who is keen to install a 4-3-3 formation from top to bottom at City, in the youth sides all the way up to the first team.

That may take time. Pellegrini has favoured 4-4-2 or 4-2-2-2 for much of his career. He confectioned a spectacular side at Villareal with that formation, leading the small-town club to the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2006 and winning many admirers with a brand of football which succeeded in combining Latin American flavour with European efficiency. At Malaga, meanwhile, he has used both of those systems, as well as an effective 4-2-3-1. Stability, however, remains key and the 59-year-old is unlikely to agree to a switch to 4-3-3 unless he believes he has the players to succeed in that system - or until he can bring them in.

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists but I don't have a pianist or a drummer

- Manuel Pellegrini on his time at Real Madrid

Tactically, Pellegrini is an upgrade on Mancini. He has shown at Villarreal, Madrid and Malaga that he is comfortable using a number of formations and, wherever he has been, he has made the team better than before. In the two games against Dortmund recently, his defensive organisation frustrated the German side and had it not been for the Andalusians' late capitulation, it would have been Malaga in the semi-finals up against Madrid and not BVB.

Indeed, Pellegrini's pedigree in Europe is one of the things City will have been attracted to, especially following their two disappointing Champions League campaigns under Mancini, while the Chilean's man-management skills will help bring the best out of a side which seems primed for greatness. At Madrid, the players backed him until the end; at Malaga they love him. At City, they will too. And if he wins, will anyone really care that he isn't British?

 

[Blueroses]

Reading comments at Marca, the love and respect for him from Spanish fans of every club is immense. Someone wrote "Only a club like Real Madrid could underestimate, discredit, and throw away a coach like Pellegrini. What has become of this club?". Another says City will play better football than Barcelona in a few seasons under Pellegrini.

He's getting very little respect in England yet, even many City fans were pretty much slanderous towards him until he was appointed (I remember many arguments on here over his lack of trophies and the word 'context'...), but I think if he's given time and a fair chance he'll be the envy of the league in time.

Agree mate all the knowledgeable fans know all about pellegrini. Most Spanish fans I spoke said the same thing... I am soooo excited about next season!

 

[Ducado]

Reading comments at Marca, the love and respect for him from Spanish fans of every club is immense. Someone wrote "Only a club like Real Madrid could underestimate, discredit, and throw away a coach like Pellegrini. What has become of this club?". Another says City will play better football than Barcelona in a few seasons under Pellegrini.

He's getting very little respect in England yet, even many City fans were pretty much slanderous towards him until he was appointed (I remember many arguments on here over his lack of trophies and the word 'context'...), but I think if he's given time and a fair chance he'll be the envy of the league in time.

Agree mate all the knowledgeable fans know all about pellegrini. Most Spanish fans I spoke said the same thing... I am soooo excited about next season!

They will respect him when the season starts