I think you've just described his three years with us mate. Pretty uncanny actually.
We need to try and con the ref, something they did in plenty when we played them.The best draw for me, defensively they're very susceptible and we can certainly cause them problems. We have to be intelligent now and ensure that particularly in the home leg, we don't get caught too high up the pitch.
I think many City fans would agree with you. Nice guy, cool and calm, maybe too cool and calm to fire players up or organises a team to a champions consistency year after year. But he had pulled some really good things out of the bag for us and I think he'll have a point to prove or a score to settle with Madrid, so it could be big!The fans were divided. In a way many liked him for being polite
and educated, plus a useless record of points in the league, but others like me considered him a boring mediocre loser at heart, irrelevant and unaware of the tradition and mentality at Madrid.
He defended himself saying he had achieved the historical record of points, useless when Barcelona had made more points and won the league, but most of all we were eliminated in the Spanish Cup by a third division for 4-0 away, which is intolerable, and in Europe by a mediocre Lyon, all of that with the fresh signings of Cristiano, Kaká, Benzema, Alonso, etc.
He is called Mr. Puntaje for mentioning the points record as if we cared at all about such minor thing, plus he said it with an expression from Chile, "puntaje" is not used in Spain and sounded so irritating to us. We always fire the coach after a blank season and in his case the two eliminations were unforgettable.
We have reached the Champions League semifinals since he left 6 times in a row (Barcelona or Bayern, 4).
He's probably a good man and coach but... loser at heart, like Wenger. Although if you win the Champions League this year, he'll be your hero and history forever, which must be really boring.
'loser'
I wouldn't label Pellegrini with that tag.He might not have lived up to expectation in some quarters......but i'm going to put that down to our friendly Spaniards poor use of English.
Yeah the loser part was overly harsh but the general gist wasn't far off how many blues see him.'loser'
I wouldn't label Pellegrini with that tag.He might not have lived up to expectation in some quarters......but i'm going to put that down to our friendly Spaniards poor use of English.
Then that's your perogative but please don't use the term on this board.We call him Losergrini. No mistake. And we say it in English because that expression is taken from English for fun, nobody says it in Spanish (perdedor). Search Losergrini in Twitter and you'll see how many people say it.
(Now he's beating us for sure thanks to Murphy's Law).
He's only telling us what they call him. Plus he's called worse by some of our own fans.Then that's your perogative but please don't use the term on this board.
The fans were divided. In a way many liked him for being polite
and educated, plus a useless record of points in the league, but others like me considered him a boring mediocre loser at heart, irrelevant and unaware of the tradition and mentality at Madrid.
He defended himself saying he had achieved the historical record of points, useless when Barcelona had made more points and won the league, but most of all we were eliminated in the Spanish Cup by a third division for 4-0 away, which is intolerable, and in Europe by a mediocre Lyon, all of that with the fresh signings of Cristiano, Kaká, Benzema, Alonso, etc.
He is called Mr. Puntaje for mentioning the points record as if we cared at all about such minor thing, plus he said it with an expression from Chile, "puntaje" is not used in Spain and sounded so irritating to us. We always fire the coach after a blank season and in his case the two eliminations were unforgettable.
We have reached the Champions League semifinals since he left 6 times in a row (Barcelona or Bayern, 4).
He's probably a good man and coach but... loser at heart, like Wenger. Although if you win the Champions League this year, he'll be your hero and history forever, which must be really boring.
I think many City fans would agree with you. Nice guy, cool and calm, maybe too cool and calm to fire players up or organises a team to a champions consistency year after year. But he had pulled some really good things out of the bag for us and I think he'll have a point to prove or a score to settle with Madrid, so it could be big!
Looking forward to both games. We absolutely hate CRonaldo, you might have realised that from the game back in 2013. So he might fire our atmosphere up a bit more.
Will be two special nights for us though even if it will be fairly run-of-the-mill (normal) for you guys.