Roberto Mancini

blueinsa said:
Another potty mouth I see.

I dont hate Mancini, he was brilliant for us but if its fair to lambaste a manager for his so called defensive frailties, despite having a very good record if you can be arsed to check it that is against every other team and manager out there, including Mancini, its only fair to show that even Bob had spells where it didn't go to plan.

Revisionism and re writing of history at its best on here at times.

As for the armchair comment, would you like to call me a fucking knob to my face on boxing day?
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But you're looking at 10 matches where he was trying to freshen the defence with a young player rather than full seasons.
 
citykev28 said:
But you're looking at 10 matches where he was trying to freshen the defence with a young player rather than full seasons.
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It's not even worth arguing about. Every halfwit knows that Mancini was better defensively than Pellegrini is. It's the sort of manager he is. I rather liked the idea that you knew we would win if we went 1-0 up, there haven't been too many times when a City fan could relax and just enjoy in-game in the last 30 years, but I also rather like the idea of scoring a lot of goals. I think we all need a happy medium at the moment ...
 
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ancoats said:
but the long term plan was always champions league and you will only get that if you build a club on a good setup in the premier league. forget this barca style of play you will never do it in the premier league there is to many good clubs in the premier league who don't roll over in a weak league like in spain. the base work that mancini did was right he worked on building a squad to win the premier league and cups first and champions league was put to the back burners

I feel for mancini he took the job on the back of a media hiding they was all over him for taking the job from mark hughes they even said that he was working behind the hughes back and sat in the stands. but it was the new owners choice and it worked you got to understand he took over a squad of players that was bought to build a club from nothing to fight for top spot. many was just bought in just to hype the name of Manchester city we needed to put the name back on the map and bring in the media and big money signings who was here for the money first and football 2nd the foundations was rocking all over the place

so mancini started to fight back with a iron fist kicked out the mercenaries and built his own style and got it right he built from the football side of things set the foundations in England with the fa cup and then premier league he was going down the right road and at a rate of knots. but the champions league was his downfall we was not ready to fight with the so called big clubs in Europe he knew it but the owners did not

I don't really know what happen but the club went on another path somebody sold the club on this barca style of play and a long term plan to build again and Europe was put to the top of the list and wipe out all the good work that mancini did in a very short space of time in the premier league and England they just ripped up the plans and started again
the back bone of manchester city was a core of 6 or 7 players who was a mix of that very big push in the media we bought into the club from day 1 and mancini had to weed out the weak and the mercenaries and what come of that was the hard core the back bone of Manchester city what we see today

sometimes I stop and think about how fast football life is them 3 years have gone in a blink of a eye and we did the unthinkable from little old man city who took the premier league title of united and fergie you can never take that away from mancini and the bond is set in stone with the fans
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Cogently expressed.
 
blueheart84 said:
Played our best football in the second half of 2011 before we made it hard for ourselves in the first half of 2012.
I think the second half of 2011 (first half of 2011/12 season) was better than anything Pellegrini has produced tbh.
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Fully agree, blueheart.

In the first few months of the first title-winning season, teams just didn't know how to cope with the expansive, attacking football we were playing.

The 5-1 at White Hart Lane and the Sick Swan spring to mind.
 
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