Pellegrini - The English Managers Syndrome

[Biast]

In fairness, I'd probably do the same. Also I would have started Sterling today. But from the little I saw of Sterling was on I clearly would have been wrong.

Point being, we all can have our ideas on who to start, but their performances have constantly varied.

RE Sterling - I too would have started him considering he didn't feature against palace. I strongly believe he is a player that grows into games as appose to being an impact sub. His best games for us have been when he has had a run of starts, I've yet to see him change a game by coming off the bench from the top of my head...

 

[cleavers]

The stupid fouls in dangerous areas don't bother me that much. It is those in mundane areas. At some point he chased Antonio to the corner and kicked him. Should have gotten a yellow for it but didn't. It was unnecessary. Antonio was going nowhere. Those are the ones that do my head in.

Both do my head in, I've no problem with the "taking one for the team" fouls that prevent a scoring opportunity, but stupid fouls anywhere are just that, stupid.

I reckon he was given license to go up and down. He was just poor often on the down part. Besides we gave up a lot of balls in bad positions that erent his fault but the results was us being down to just Yaya.

I think it was part of the game plan, let Delph do the donkey work and Yaya sit, I've no problem with that, but Delph isn't as good at it as Fernandhino (yet), but he does have the energy to do it, and is proving a very good signing for me, today I liked his drive forward, so I thought he was having a good game, and I thought Yaya, early lack of concentration aside, was pretty disciplined.

However there was a lack of balance in midfield, because 2 of the 3 attacking midfielders do f*ck all defending, and that is 2 too many, and leaves us too open. We need to be defending from Sergio backwards, and yet we only really start with whoever the 2 in midfield are.

I don't see it changing under Pellegrini now unfortunately, as he doesn't inspire (instruct) all our players to defend, way too much emphasis on attacking. Many teams have worked this out now, but also some of our 'stars' just don't work hard enough, and as I said earlier, we don't play as a team, too many of our attacking players, leave the defending to others, and that's not good enough at the level we are aiming to be at.

 

[Dax777]

Both do my head in, I've no problem with the "taking one for the team" fouls that prevent a scoring opportunity, but stupid fouls anywhere are just that, stupid.

I think it was part of the game plan, let Delph do the donkey work and Yaya sit, I've no problem with that, but Delph isn't as good at it as Fernandhino (yet), but he does have the energy to do it, and is proving a very good signing for me, today I liked his drive forward, so I thought he was having a good game, and I thought Yaya, early lack of concentration aside, was pretty disciplined.

However there was a lack of balance in midfield, because 2 of the 3 attacking midfielders do f*ck all defending, and that is 2 too many, and leaves us too open. We need to be defending from Sergio backwards, and yet we only really start with whoever the 2 in midfield are.

I don't see it changing under Pellegrini now unfortunately, as he doesn't inspire (instruct) all our players to defend, way too much emphasis on attacking. Many teams have worked this out now, but also some of our 'stars' just don't work hard enough, and as I said earlier, we don't play as a team, too many of our attacking players, leave the defending to others, and that's not good enough at the level we are aiming to be at.

Orit could be some of our star players don't wanna do it. I've seen them half heartedly press in a few games. But by and large its not natural to them. Mancini didn't press either, yet Navas and Milner and Tevez did it as a matter of personal choice. Aguero, Silva, Yaya, Adebayor, Garcia, and all the others didn't.

So if pressing is gonna be our style under Pep, then favorites like Silva are as likely to get cut as the hated Yaya.

 

[cleavers]

So if pressing is gonna be our style under Pep, then favorites like Silva are as likely to get cut as the hated Yaya.

I don't disagree, but they can all do it, if they wish, or if they're instructed too, I'm not sure which it is, and if they are instructed to and don't, then its a bigger worry.

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Did he?

sleep on this, think this through and you'll notice certain things.
Like scoring the record amount of goals in the league (& obviously winning the league (& double)). Winning CL group this season...

Now let's just see this season through and then look back and have a look what he did or did not

He won fuck all last season. Should have been binned. Why wasn't he?

 

[brian the blue]

We'd do just as badly as we are now without a manager. He's worse than Hughes.

 

[BobKowalski]

Waiting for him to fuck off. At least he is fucking off so small mercies and all that.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

A successful Arthur Daley

Strange comment. Arthur Daley was, by any reasoned measure, successful. He ducked and dived and never seemed to be skint. He frequently had his collar felt by old bill for his various schemes, but they never got anything to stick. He was, ultimately, a survivor.

Poor analogy, mate.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Its a meeting of time and place that is doomed to fail now and probably always was. When he took the job the club said it was looking at 3 year cycles, and so it has turned out. Im all for that myself. But he had an ageing squad which has kept its core, and the club have picked away around the edges at fixing that without committing to really replacing the important men. It needs a big change, its cyclical and it will happen, but we need a new boss and a new spine of a squad.

 

[Dax777]

I don't disagree, but they can all do it, if they wish, or if they're instructed too, I'm not sure which it is, and if they are instructed to and don't, then its a bigger worry.

We have seen them half heartedly do it in the past. I don't think Pelegrini is has instructed them to stop, they just don't do it well. They even did it w bit Yesterday.

Coaches like Mourihno have binned players or benched them for not working defensively. Some players are just not good at it. And we might have a good number if them and they are mostly our stars.