leech said:
Dribble said:
Events at the time show what you're saying is plainly wrong? Mancini wanted RVP, Hazard and Di Rossi and I'm sure if he was told 'You've only got £55m to spend' he would have chosen 2 from 3 and ustilised the squad he had.
Mancini was at war with Marwood over the timing and the quality of our signings that summer and history has proven him right as less than 3 years later, all those @players are all but gone. If you look at Mancini's transfer footprint, you can still see that many of the players he bought AND the ones he inherited and nurtured still form the core of our team today, so aside from Maicon who he'd worked with previously, why would he have gone against his normal recruitment policy and bought that load of dross?
That 2012 transfer window has to go down as our most disastrous one post Sheikh Mansour and we are still feeling the effects of it today and counting the cost in terms of trying to get rid of the players bought and so meekly surrendering our title to one of the worst ManUre squads in their modern history and I for one don't blame Mancini for any of it.
But you'll happily blame Pellegrini for the players Begiristain helped buy? Not that I would say any of the players we've bought have been flops to the scale of those bought in 2012.
Mancini had long coveted Garcia and Nastasic before 2012, and intimated that Manchester City had "worked well" on the last day of the transfer window despite being too slow before. Never one for blaming other people for his mistakes, I'm sure Mancini himself had nothing to do with us losing out on the easy-to-get top quality signings he earmarked such as De Rossi, Hazard & co despite it often being a manager's job to do a large part of the wooing himself.
2012 was the first year Mancini and team didn't have an unbeatable large pile of cash to throw at all their transfer conundrums and came up short, that is the bottom line. More so than Pellegrini/Begiristain ever have.
Who mentioned Pellegrini or Begiristain? It's you who are overtly making a lame attempt to turn this into something completely different, so do us all a favour fella and pack it in because its a silly argument that doesn't interest me in the slightest. Let's look at the facts:
1. Was Bigiristain here in the summer of 2012?
2. Was Pellegrini here in the summer of 2012?
3. Was Soriano properly insitu in the summer of 2012?
What was being discussed was the players bought during that period NOT Pellegrini being to blame for the players Begiristain bought since. I don't even know where you've picked that Pellegrini/Begiristain crap up from and I find it incredible you've levelled it at me as if its a conversation I've ever held or a statement I've ever made.
Pray tell me where Mancini said he'd 'long coveted Garcia and Nastasic'? All I can remember from that summer is Mancini spending the first part of it telling anyone who'd listen that he wanted Di Rossi, Hazard and RVP and never once can I recall he or anyone else ever mentioning Nastasic or Garcia. He was even reportedly summoned to Abu Dhabi and told to button it by SM because he was so pissed at our lack of transfer activity.
If ever there was a transfer window for us to consolidate our position and drive home our slender league advantage, then this was the one. As you correctly mention FFP, was looming large on the horizon so apparently £55m was the most we could spend, so are you seriously trying to tell me that Mancini would have said 'Bollocks to RVP, Di Rossi and Hazard, its quantity I need not quality so I think I'll turn my covetousness away from 2 out of those 3 and pursue Garcia, Nastasic, Rodwell, Maicon and Scott fuckin Sinclair instead'?
In 2012 we came up short like you said, but when asked in an interview about our transfer activity that summer, Mancini told the press to go ask Marwood as he was the man in charge of transfers not he. No matter how unpalatable that may be for you to absorb (as you seem intent on blaming Mancini for everything that went wrong that summer), it is what it is. Mancini warned we'd regret what happened that summer and so it was proved as we meekly surrendered our title to ManUre and have spent the subsequent 2 years trying to jettison the players bought that summer.
Now tell me again if all that sounds like a move Mancini would have made? He may have had his faults like we all have, but he's not bollock-brained enough to go out and buy that lot over trying to land RVP, Di Rossi and RVP. As for Marwood, our embarrassing 2012 transfer window sounds like something an unqualified football manager would have done, so that's the dots joined up and the picture painted for you.
