Pellegrini is the new manager (Malaga Newspaper reports) 4.

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Exeter Blue I am here said:
Cobwebcat said:
Marvin said:
Doesn't make sense. Financial terms would surely all have been sorted if we've really been talking to his agent for 3-4 months

Just about to post that

Until he's signed on the dotted line he's surely able to move the goalposts as much as he wants, irrespective of what might have been 'agreed'

Or maybe he wanted a couple of weeks holiday after the end of la liga season before starting with City?
 
Money talks as they say ..... and the lad with the 5k lined up at 1-50 on betfair doesn's seem too concerned. If the flappers and itk's are genuinely concerned about this scheduled i dotting and t crossing not going to plan, why not have a tenner to win a monkey on him not getting the gig to assuage your fears ...

<a class="postlink" href="http://sports.betfair.com/Index.do?mi=109422612&ex=1&origin=MRL" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://sports.betfair.com/Index.do?mi=1 ... origin=MRL</a>
 
All being blown out of proportion IMO. A newspaper described the delay as a "minor technicality"... I doubt Don Pellegrini holding the club to ransom would be classified as such.
 
From all accounts Pellegrini is a very honourable man who is principled and values loyalty.

That doesn't sound like someone who would now start pissing us about by moving the goalposts.

I'm confident he will be announced this week,and he may even bring some friends!
 
I think we have to remind ourselves that this is City were talking about, this anxiety, confusion, unpredictability is all part of our make up. Seemingly nothing ever goes smoothly.
 
Another provocative headline by the Mail that will incite loads of anger.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2338111/Manchester-City-wont-play-Englishman-Manuel-Pellegrini.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... ds-newsxml</a>
 
LoveCity said:
Another provocative headline by the Mail that will incite loads of anger

If you are a knee-jerk drama queen perhaps.

For everyone else - more meh from the mail, nothing more.
 
LoveCity said:
Another provocative headline by the Mail that will incite loads of anger.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2338111/Manchester-City-wont-play-Englishman-Manuel-Pellegrini.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... ds-newsxml</a>

Ok.........

Manchester City will unveil their new manager, Manuel Pellegrini, this week to usher in a new ‘La Liga era’ at the club that is unlikely to provide much cheer for their English players.
Pellegrini’s arrival from Malaga has been the worst-kept secret in football since the sacking of Roberto Mancini last month. But his position will finally be confirmed within the next 48 hours, with the Chilean then scheduled to meet the world’s media on Wednesday or Thursday to outline his plans.
His appointment, on a three-year deal worth £15million, will see immediate changes at the Etihad following Mancini’s three-and-a-half-year spell which brought the Premier League and FA Cup trophies, but also plenty of internal strife.

Pellegrini has already held detailed talks in Spain with City’s director of football Txiki Begiristain and chief executive Ferran Soriano about how the club is going to progress, and he hopes to add talented midfielder Isco from Malaga following the European Under-21 championship which is taking place in Israel.
City have already spent £55m since the end of last season to sign Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho and World Cup-winning Sevilla winger Jesus Navas as they attempt to wrest the title back from Manchester United.
However, interest in Mancini’s top target, Edinson Cavani of, Napoli, has cooled and City are happy to concede defeat to Chelsea in the fight for his £45m signature

Crucially, Pellegrini has agreed to follow Begiristain’s Barcelona blueprint, where every City side — from youth team to the first XI — play in the same 4-3-3 formation. However, the prospects for the club’s English players are poor with the arrival of three big-money signings from Spain and Brazil, with goalkeeper Joe Hart likely to be the only Englishman to be a regular starter next season.
Gareth Barry and Jack Rodwell will be squeezed out by the arrival of Isco and Fernandinho, while Joleon Lescott could move on after losing his place to Matija Nastasic.
Micah Richards is regarded as a stand-in for club vice-captain Pablo Zabaleta, and even the versatile James Milner is likely to see his appearances limited, with Pellegrini keen to utilise David Silva, Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero and Navas for his new, fluid system.
Tevez is about to enter the last 12 months of his contract, but potential suitors Juventus would rather wait until he is available on a Bosman next summer before making their move.


Pellegrini will have to win over the fans quickly after the dismissal of Mancini, who found out about the impending change on the morning of City’s FA Cup final defeat against Wigan.
A former Chilean international, Pellegrini has made his managerial name in Spain with Villarreal, where he managed Manchester United winger Antonio Valencia, and Real Madrid, where he signed Cristiano Ronaldo for a world-record £80m.
Last season, he guided unfashionable Malaga into the quarter-finals of the Champions League despite financial turmoil at the club.
Following on from the hype of Jose Mourinho’s public reappearance in England on Monday, City will be keen to assure their fans the club will not be superseded by Chelsea.
Soriano has already publicly stated he wants to win five major trophies in the next five seasons.
 
1961_vintage said:
LoveCity said:
Another provocative headline by the Mail that will incite loads of anger

If you are a knee-jerk drama queen perhaps.

For everyone else - more meh from the mail, nothing more.


I can't do the linky transcript thing , but if some fellow blue could oblige , then e could avoid giving those tossers at the Fail traffic / click credits..
 
LoveCity said:
Another provocative headline by the Mail that will incite loads of anger.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2338111/Manchester-City-wont-play-Englishman-Manuel-Pellegrini.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... ds-newsxml</a>
It won't incite any from me, couldn't care less what the mail write, and I'm not overly fussed about "english" players. If they're good enough they'll play.

I'd love to know how much joe bernstein (whoever the fuck he is) knows about Pellegrini's plans, and I'd bet its about as little as me.
 
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