Still angry

[bert38]

Correct.

If we lose today the aught to be booed off. We boo the CL anthem for unfairness (basically) but allow our own team and players to cheat us and steal our hard earned cash.

Bring back SWP, Rosler, Barton, Beagrie, Morrison, Tiato et al because they were miles shorter on ability but they actually gave a fuck and that is the first thing we need.

I actively dislike a huge portion of this team now. The last 18 months has turned me against them.

You'd dislike them more when they were relegated.

 

[mosssideblue]

We have failed and I am 100% certain our owner feels the same.

The coming few weeks will show that, I expect many changes on and off the pitch, the excuses and bullshit have to stop

All depends how you measure failure. It seams for you not winning 4 of the last 5 titles is failure, but for me (and I suspect a fair few others), that's just unrealistic expectations.

I'm sure there will be many changes as you say this coming off season, not because of failure, but more of natural progression as we bring together the final pieces of the jigsaw. Serious question. What do you believe are achievable goals these next three seasons with Pep in charge and several new players

 

[TRUE BLUE NO1]

This just confirms all I need to know......should have moved on when the news became official....This team has just been playing in the same way and now I can see why they've had no fight, passion or hunger the last 5months....If the manager feels like this, the team is just going to follow...

Read Man City ‏@ReadManCity 9h9 hours ago
Pellegrini: "For me, next season started in February when the announcement was made." #MCFC

 

[flb]

I suggest the club have a read of this thread and have a listen to the excellent Latest City Watch podcast that went live on Friday.

The natives are getting pissed off.

 

[Keeper!]

You'd dislike them more when they were relegated.

The teams that were relegated were poor players, the players since Mancini came to the club have been quality internationals ( at least before they signed), that's the big difference.

Far too much player power in that dressing room, the captain down.

Pep is the BOSS, the one and only BOSS...his way or the highway

 

[Neville Kneville]

Reality and opinions offen differ for many reasons

We should have had two titles with Mancini & at least two with Pellegrini. The Utd side which won it were nothing & Leicester whilst doing magnificently, are nowhere near it.

They asked any Leicester player & the manager 'when did you really think you could win the title ?' The answer in every case 'at Man City'.

Everyone knew we were the team who could come through, batter everyone & win the league. We got fucking mullered. If it had been a stuffy 0-1 it would have been different. But we showed we were fuck all & they showed potential title winning ability. The week after, we gave Spurs a boost too. They fell apart as soon as they got a bit of pressure on. As most suspected they would.

With Chelsea gone, that title was ours for the taking. And Arsenal should be 2nd. Both should be miles away from the rest. This should be the big, last effort of our 'old guard' team saying goodbye with a title. Instead we are hoping they turn up for 2 games.

All the spark & spirit has gone from the club. We have actually become Arsenal.

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

We have failed and I am 100% certain our owner feels the same.

The coming few weeks will show that, I expect many changes on and off the pitch, the excuses and bullshit have to stop

I really hope that you are right re changes on and off the pitch. The general malaise within the playing side of the club is unbelievable, and stems imo from the manager. His relaxed, lazy approach to the game has permeated throughout the squad, most of whom need very few excuses to take the easy route.

When Mancini was here, he wasn't perfect, but he realised that the one missing ingredient at our club was the lack of a big club mentality. Big clubs find a way of winning through adversity, big clubs don't use excuses, and big clubs don't ever produce the kind of performance we saw on Wednesday night. Mancini set to work on instilling this mentality and by and large had done so. And then along comes this 'charming man', who in one fell swoop has destroyed everything that Mancini had started.

Not to open any old wounds, but it is only my opinion that the club made a huge mistake in siding with the shit house players when they dispensed with Mancini. It's not that I had any love for Mancini but if they were going to release him, then why not at least try and find someone who could build on the winning mentality that RM had started. Why go for a guy who was serial failure and had not won one major title in Europe? Somebody fucked up royally there.

We need a manager who knows what it's like to be a winner, someone for whom failure is not an option. A manager who doesn't stand by reputations, but rather by application. I believe we have that man coming in now in Pep, but oh what a shame he's having to start from such a low base.

 

[Blue Mooner]

Good post!

I've felt like this since Burnley away last season. Pellegrini's personality, style football and blasé attitude has rubbed off on the team and we've signed poorly for years which has meant the quality of the team has gone backwards coupled with this far too laid back approach in every inch of the first team squad and it has resulted in us being in this situation.

The life has been sucked out of this club by Begiristain and Pellegrini. The football is shite, the players are given no direction or gameplan and no reprimands when they're shite. Even Soriano to a certain extent, who has done a better job than those other two and is far less guilty, has continually rinsed the fans for our money and all those people behind the scenes who aim for this Americanised/children's theme park "matchday experience" which I hate and with these last two I can see why those thousands of fans have fallen away from our support (didn't PB say once that only about 20000 original SC holders from the move to The Etihad remain to this day?).

But then as a result of those first two it's resulted in a team of players who don't know what they're doing. The frustrating thing is that they haven't had it within them to say "right this isn't good enough". They've just floundered away, seemingly, without a care in the world. I feel less and less of an affinity with the players because if this. Like you say, it's getting to the point where I don't care who leaves. If we had Charles Joseph John Hart (he needs to be captain of this club now Kompany is too unreliable to stay fit, never mind selling him for someone who can pass nicely!) and ten new outfield players and a bench of EDS players I think we'd be going in the right direction!

I've enjoyed this season less than seasons in previous decades when we were shite and sometimes really shite. I've enjoyed being in lower divisions more than I've enjoyed this season. And we've won the FL Cup and got to the CL semis. But it's true! I saw better preparation, organisation and gameplans from Joe Royle and seen more fight from Andy Morrison, Gerrard Weikens, Kevin Horlock, Paul Dickov and Shaun Goater than I have our shite manager and bunch of prima donna players!

My guess is you were moaning just as much then as you are now. To be honest if this club is going to be truly successful we probably need to lose more of those 20,000 that remain, either that or those remaining need to move with the changes in the club. Some of our fans are just not made to support a successful club, when it was likely the lack of success that attracted them in the first place.

For our players to get the amount of criticism they are for getting good this club to the champs league semi final beggars belief.

Some of the players time is up, no doubt, but they go with my thanks for helping turn around this woefully underachieving club.

 

[flb]

We should have had two titles with Mancini & at least two with Pellegrini. The Utd side which won it were nothing & Leicester whilst doing magnificently, are nowhere near it.

They asked any Leicester player & the manager 'when did you really think you could win the title ?' The answer in every case 'at Man City'.

Everyone knew we were the team who could come through, batter everyone & win the league. We got fucking mullered. If it had been a stuffy 0-1 it would have been different. But we showed we were fuck all & they showed potential title winning ability. The week after, we gave Spurs a boost too. They fell apart as soon as they got a bit of pressure on. As most suspected they would.

With Chelsea gone, that title was ours for the taking. And Arsenal should be 2nd. Both should be miles away from the rest. This should be the big, last effort of our 'old guard' team saying goodbye with a title. Instead we are hoping they turn up for 2 games.

All the spark & spirit has gone from the club. We have actually become Arsenal.

You going today mate, I know you were thinking about fucking it off?

I've fucked it off and you know what mate I'm looking forward to a day in the sun than clapping that crap off after the game!

 

[Keeper!]

I am sick of seeing people like Les Chapman dicking about behind the scenes, I even don't like seeing the players coming out onto the pitch holding their kids ( Augero)

We are a major football club whom the owners want to become a world wide entity....City please cut out all the crap.