Pellegrini is the new manager (Malaga Newspaper reports)

[discombobu]

Hes coming??

@SkysportsPics 11m
Spanish newspapers SUR captures Pellegrini in the airport, en route to Manchester?

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Where's his scarf? Doesn't he know anything about our history?

 

[mammutly]

Here is what I think he'll achieve in his first season.

3rd Place Premier League
Round of 16 / Quarter finals Champions League.
Semi final cup run.

If you are correct, he won't have a second season.

 

[Nevizade]

Hes coming??

@SkysportsPics 11m
Spanish newspapers SUR captures Pellegrini in the airport, en route to Manchester?

[bigimg]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKTVpuvCIAAh1Pb.jpg:large[/bigimg]

I think Sid Lowe (Guardian Spanish correspondent) said on Twitter that he's gone back to Chile because his dad died last month and Málaga don't have a game this weekend, so that possibly explains the picture. Also the caption says 'In Manchester they say Pellegrini will travel to England straight away in order to sign the contract'. I'm not aware of anyone in Manchester saying this (although admittedly I don't work there so I wouldn't be anyway).

 

[Blue Hefner]

Hes coming??

@SkysportsPics 11m
Spanish newspapers SUR captures Pellegrini in the airport, en route to Manchester?

[bigimg]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKTVpuvCIAAh1Pb.jpg:large[/bigimg]

No crossword???

 

[Pigeonho]

wow how very exciting

a geezer who has won fuck all on a short-term contract replaces a proven trophy winner in the Premier League

how very holistic of the club to do this

Thinking the exact opposite to be honest, though I can see why someone would be apprehensive or, like you, unimpressed.

Got a feeling we will have a 'summer', (best get used to the British summer, MP), of change in the playing staff, with some big names signing on for the ride next season.

Might as well join that ride.

You were busy saying he would choose barca over us yesterday

Actually no, I wasn't. What I was saying was what PBT had said on TS, that he was happy in Malaga and happy working for the club, and that if the financial side could get sorted out he would be happy to stay there. Someone then mentioned the Barca link to which I said, 'it's different when Barca come knocking', which in fairness it is.
I'm glad he's coming .

 

[blumanc]

If he is appointed on a 2 year deal, there will be widespread speculation from day one that he is in effect a temporary manager. Obviously keeping the seat warm for Pep or Jose, possibly both.

Pep and Jose both managing at the same time. Now that would be exciting.

 

[gh_mcfc]

The Dye is set.

The utopian stability the Media and lots of us crave will come from the Director of Football and the structure of the club to be firmed up over the next year or so.

I have never had an problem with sacking managers if they weren`t doing the job. Why keep a duffer to continue to be a duffer for the sake of stability. Obviously in Mancinis` case he wasnt a duffer and I would have given him another year. But the stability we will get now will be club wide and not manager dependent . It will be bottom up not Manager down.

We are firmly going down the European route where the coach is the coach. We are the first top English club to fully embrace it (a risk but at least executed by people who understand the system). If the coach does a good job he will last 2,3 maybe 4 years and then be gone. The next coach will be one that is prepared to freshen things up within our stable system.

The difference for us now is rather than stumble from frizzell, to machin, to (kendal)Reid to Horton, Ball and clarke etc.. We will move from Mancini to Pellers(?) to A.N.Othet top coach.

Get over it, get used to it. We will follow the model which works for Madrid, Barca and Bayern not the Rag model.

 

[bluemanhatton]

Here is what I think he'll achieve in his first season.

3rd Place Premier League
Round of 16 / Quarter finals Champions League.
Semi final cup run.

On what basis have you decided that?

 

[coleridge]

No disrespect to salfordpaul but I dont buy these "Pep in 2 years" stories for a minute.

Clubs don't strategise like that. Noone knows what will happen to us, Pellegrini, Pep or Bayern over 2 years. Managers don't sign short term deals like that when they can get long ones elsewhere with bigger payoffs. They don't want to be relocating their family for a fixed term.

It doesn't ring true at all.

An MOU is not the same as 'the truth'. And they all relocate 'their family for a fixed term'. Maybe short-term is the new trend. Don't see Rafa losing any sleep over it.

I read somewhere that his wife and kids are actually based in Santiago and he pops over regularly to see them. Can't remember which article it was but I definitely read it.

Exactly. Why is everyone obsessed with the idea of a long-term deal for a 60 year old who can apparently look after the academy later on? Is it the same people who were outraged at Mancini getting a five year deal? What a funny, funny forum.

 

[Chevelle]

wow how very exciting

a geezer who has won fuck all on a short-term contract replaces a proven trophy winner in the Premier League

how very holistic of the club to do this

Keep the manager that all the players hate? Yeah.. no