Roberto Mancini - next Italy manager

Hero, the man who put winning into the dressing room, after seeing us win the League Cup in '76 it'd looked like that was it til I popped my clogs but Bobby came in and sorted it.

Before anyone says with all our cash it was an easy thing.....obviously, it wasn't, fat arse hughes wouldn't have got the job done and if he'd stayed until the end of the season we'd have missed the FFP boat as well.

The behind the scenes politics that went on we'll never really know what happened, but his position was made untenable before the Wigan game, was he hung out to dry by our Spanish boys or was it Barca stirring it?

He deserved better much better even if he was a nightmare to work with.

But what happened happened and now let's leave it and all get 100% behind Pep.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Mancini? Rancour and bitterness? Surely not.

Poor Roberto - if only his owners gave him everything he wanted whenever he wanted it then he'd be a world-beater.
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You know, being the ego maniac that he was, I can believe every single word of that. He was thoughtless and entirely motivated to succeed in his own way.

He'd want what he wanted whether it was right or wrong, but for the all the talk around him since he left, he wasn't wrong was he?

We absolutely needed those players we were after and have digressed since. The time to strengthen is when your at your strongest.

I thought he was a fabulous manger who made and the laid the foundations for what we see today.

It's just a shame he was so pig headed and self centred because he could have been here still, unrivalled to anyone.
 
What Mancini achieved at City is often overlooked in the media and it seems some on here are forgetting the scale of his achievements whilst at City. Right from the start the pressure on him was huge. The media wanted him to fail and when he turned us into a solid team who rarely conceded, his team was labelled boring and sneered at in the press. Once he'd sorted the defence out he went on the attack and the football was as beautiful as it was ruthless. When he left it was time for him to go, he'd upset too many people, but Pellegrini wasn't a better manager, just better at being told what to do. The character assassination of Mancini by the club was nothing short of disgraceful and left a sour taste.
I'll always be grateful for what he did for us but I'm not harping back to when he was here or wishing he was here again. I'm just appreciating what he did for us and that was a lot. He took that banner down at the swamp and for that alone he should always be a club legend.
 
best manager we had for a long time and so what if he was a iron fist look at piss can fergie over the road you don't have to be friends with the players just respect them. he was a part of history and putting our manchester city back ON THE MAP and winning silverware and he will going down in my book as the man who took down united and fergie and ripped that banner down at OT that alone was SPECIAL
 
franksinatra said:
I could not agree more. His reputation was smeared on this board but as history has proven, if he did talk to Monaco, he had every right too. Funny though how he was painted as the villian for speaking to another club but no one has the same issue with the club for speaking to another manager.
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Given their respective starting points at city in respect of squad depth and league starting position, Pep will have to serious rip up trees to get even close to achieving as much as Mancini did. Whilst a title and a cup win in 3 years would be a good return for pep in the next 3 years it would mean he had seriously underachieved when put next to mancinis record. Ironic that the club undermined Bobby (and Pellers) in order to begin a 3 year long sojourn for pep. 2 titles and 2 cups in 3 seasons would put pep on about par when comparing the two.
 
stony said:
What Mancini achieved at City is often overlooked in the media and it seems some on here are forgetting the scale of his achievements whilst at City. Right from the start the pressure on him was huge. The media wanted him to fail and when he turned us into a solid team who rarely conceded, his team was labelled boring and sneered at in the press. Once he'd sorted the defence out he went on the attack and the football was as beautiful as it was ruthless. When he left it was time for him to go, he'd upset too many people, but Pellegrini wasn't a better manager, just better at being told what to do. The character assassination of Mancini by the club was nothing short of disgraceful and left a sour taste.
I'll always be grateful for what he did for us but I'm not harping back to when he was here or wishing he was here again. I'm just appreciating what he did for us and that was a lot. He took that banner down at the swamp and for that alone he should always be a club legend.
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This. Bobbys team played the best football the prem has ever seen.
 
I'll always be grateful for what Bobby Mancini did for us. The title winning season was unbelievable. God bless Bobby!
 
stony said:
What Mancini achieved at City is often overlooked in the media and it seems some on here are forgetting the scale of his achievements whilst at City. Right from the start the pressure on him was huge. The media wanted him to fail and when he turned us into a solid team who rarely conceded, his team was labelled boring and sneered at in the press. Once he'd sorted the defence out he went on the attack and the football was as beautiful as it was ruthless. When he left it was time for him to go, he'd upset too many people, but Pellegrini wasn't a better manager, just better at being told what to do. The character assassination of Mancini by the club was nothing short of disgraceful and left a sour taste.
I'll always be grateful for what he did for us but I'm not harping back to when he was here or wishing he was here again. I'm just appreciating what he did for us and that was a lot. He took that banner down at the swamp and for that alone he should always be a club legend.
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Well said, stony.

Pretty much exactly how I feel about Bobby Manc.
 
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