Pellegrini is the new manager (Malaga Newspaper reports) 2.

[Heart.net]

Nasri basically confirming Pellegrini here:

says the man who has underperformed all season bar the last couple of games,you are the one on the ball mate,its your job to do something entertaining with it

Maybe Mancini couldn't raise his confident...

This is how his season has pretty much gone.

Started on fire, injury, average games, drop in confidence after error against rags, injury, suspension, average/bad games, and then rounded off with good performances over the last two months.

All in all, a stop-start season.

 

[derek]

I could have punched Nasri when he ducked at THAT free kick.

 

[kaz7]

just seen on ssn the performances in the champions league overall bobby has won 43% of matches and manu 39% so everyone saying manu is much better than bobby is not true.dont hit me with limited resources etc etc,just given you the facts

 

[Pam]

just seen on ssn the performances in the champions league overall bobby has won 43% of matches and manu 39% so everyone saying manu is much better than bobby is not true.dont hit me with limited resources etc etc,just given you the facts

Don't get me started, Karen.

 

[penalty spot]

just seen on ssn the performances in the champions league overall bobby has won 43% of matches and manu 39% so everyone saying manu is much better than bobby is not true.dont hit me with limited resources etc etc,just given you the facts

Wonder how many matches in champs league they base that on. A tad unfair if one of them has managed twice as many as the other,if you get my drift. like the old adverts now banned for eg. 87% of people prefered Sunshine Crispies...[ survey carried out on 10 people].I was a Mancini backer by the way. just suspicious of SS News.

 

[Daz_Blue]

Manchester City are ready to adopt a continental style management structure with the expected appointment of Manuel Pellegrini, who announced today that he would be leaving Malaga.
Club insiders say the idea is to appoint a head coach rather than a manager, leaving the day-to-day handling of such things as transfers and HR with senior executives, in this case almost certainly director of Football Tixi Bergstein.

The City board became exasperated with former manager Roberto Mancini’s public lobbying for certain players who Bergstein and, before him, Brian Marwood, regarded as unsuited to “the project”.

The main strategy of the club, constrained as it is by the new Financial Fair Play rules, is to embark on one or two flagship signings each year, sell on those who have not performed, or are coming to the end of their careers, and most importantly ensure a steady supply of young players from an Academy that will have more than £100 million lavished upon it.

Mancini’s alleged unwillingness to see the Academy as the backbone of the entire Manchester City project, is believed to be one of the key reasons he lost his job.

The new man is in no doubt that his role begins and ends with the coaching of the first team. Our source would not name the new head coach, but did confirm that the job was no longer available and that the new man “is well aware of the parameters of the role”.

 

[Pam]

Manchester City are ready to adopt a continental style management structure with the expected appointment of Manuel Pellegrini, who announced today that he would be leaving Malaga.
Club insiders say the idea is to appoint a head coach rather than a manager, leaving the day-to-day handling of such things as transfers and HR with senior executives, in this case almost certainly director of Football Tixi Bergstein.

The City board became exasperated with former manager Roberto Mancini’s public lobbying for certain players who Bergstein and, before him, Brian Marwood, regarded as unsuited to “the project”.

The main strategy of the club, constrained as it is by the new Financial Fair Play rules, is to embark on one or two flagship signings each year, sell on those who have not performed, or are coming to the end of their careers, and most importantly ensure a steady supply of young players from an Academy that will have more than £100 million lavished upon it.

Mancini’s alleged unwillingness to see the Academy as the backbone of the entire Manchester City project, is believed to be one of the key reasons he lost his job.

The new man is in no doubt that his role begins and ends with the coaching of the first team. Our source would not name the new head coach, but did confirm that the job was no longer available and that the new man “is well aware of the parameters of the role”.

This is essentially a power grab. Get rid of Bobby, who wanted to micro manage and replace him with someone (MP) accustomed to a more limited role in team affairs. The Chavs have tried this approach a couple of times. It will be interesting to see how it all goes.

 

[Marvin]

just seen on ssn the performances in the champions league overall bobby has won 43% of matches and manu 39% so everyone saying manu is much better than bobby is not true.dont hit me with limited resources etc etc,just given you the facts

Wonder how many matches in champs league they base that on. A tad unfair if one of them has managed twice as many as the other,if you get my drift. like the old adverts now banned for eg. 87% of people prefered Sunshine Crispies...[ survey carried out on 10 people].I was a Mancini backer by the way. just suspicious of SS News.

They've both played umpteen Champions League games, certainly enough for the stats to be significant.

 

[Pam]

just seen on ssn the performances in the champions league overall bobby has won 43% of matches and manu 39% so everyone saying manu is much better than bobby is not true.dont hit me with limited resources etc etc,just given you the facts

Wonder how many matches in champs league they base that on. A tad unfair if one of them has managed twice as many as the other,if you get my drift. like the old adverts now banned for eg. 87% of people prefered Sunshine Crispies...[ survey carried out on 10 people].I was a Mancini backer by the way. just suspicious of SS News.

They've both played umpteen Champions League games, certainly enough for the stats to be significant.

Even so, its a bit of a limited statistic. You have to look at the squads they were managing at any given time and whether their clubs were experienced in the competition and comfortable with it. You also have to look at the groups. You have to say, Pelligrini did very well with Malaga in the CL but two swallows does not a summer make and would Malaga have got through a group with Dortmund and RM in it? I doubt it, somehow.

 

[MSP]

Wonder how many matches in champs league they base that on. A tad unfair if one of them has managed twice as many as the other,if you get my drift. like the old adverts now banned for eg. 87% of people prefered Sunshine Crispies...[ survey carried out on 10 people].I was a Mancini backer by the way. just suspicious of SS News.

They've both played umpteen Champions League games, certainly enough for the stats to be significant.

Even so, its a bit of a limited statistic. You have to look at the squads they were managing at any given time and whether their clubs were experienced in the competition and comfortable with it. You have to say, Pelligrini did very well with Malaga in the CL but two swallows does not a summer make.

he did even better with Villarreal and was inch away from reaching the final.