The battle for 4th place

[HolisticJim]

The scum will get twatted tomorrow and we will need one more point at the most.

Please let this be true. Ive had so much stick from Liverpool and UTD Fans and would Keving Keegan love it, if I could go back to them and say 'haha fuckers, you spoke to soon!'

 

[Barcon]

Please let this be true. Ive had so much stick from Liverpool and UTD Fans and would Keving Keegan love it, if I could go back to them and say 'haha fuckers, you spoke to soon!'

Imagine if they draw both games and we give them the old, "goal difference skullfuck" again.

 

[vmsuhail]

THAT pundit who predicted we finish outside the Top 4 must be a genius.

 

[prof-taf]

Having just spoken to a WHU player, they are going all out for 4th. Some hope for Tuesday!!!

 

[west didsblue]

What odds would I get for us to beat Swansea, rags to beat West Ham and Bournemouth and Arsenal to lose to Villa?

 

[Brett Sinclair]

Having just spoken to a WHU player, they are going all out for 4th. Some hope for Tuesday!!!

Errr did you tell him there's virtually no chance as our GD is miles better than theirs!

 

[Daz_Blue]

Swansea resting 5 or 6 players on Sunday......just the 2-0 loss then

 

[prof-taf]

Errr did you tell him there's virtually no chance as our GD is miles better than theirs!

I didn't, bugger, 5th it is then. For them I mean.

 

[halfcenturyup]

It's OK, it's all sorted. Desperate times call for desperate measures and, insprired by the tales of the Thai monks who have won the title for Leciester, I have today done two things: first, been round to my local temple where the monks prayed for City to finish in 4th place and for United to fall on their arses and, second, arranged for some "dark" monks in Burma to put a black magic spell on the United players. They now have no chance of winning their last two games and we are safe in fourth place. Cost me a few donations, but rest easy. You can thank me in the weekend :)

 

[Healdplace]

And yet 100% predictable. I and numerous others on here said for weeks that MP basically doesn't give a **** about whether we qualify for the CL and would play fast and loose with the team selections in order to give himself any possible advantage for the CL semi finals.

It was a car crash just waiting to happen.

I agree and like you have said so. He basically seems to have got the huff that he is being replaced and it was human nature he would prioritise his CV selling himself to another PL club (as the press say he seems to have turned down a job in South America with City creating our franchise there and wants to manage another PL team such as Everton).

A CL semi final helps sell that as he ticks all the boxes in his 3 years - title, cup, Champs League success up to SF. What mid table PL team would not think that was gold dust).

So in a personal sense you cannot blame him for doing this if he really feels he should be staying on.

What is much less easy to understand is how stupidly the management above him seem to have let this happen when the signs were there for weeks. They appear to have believed in their own omnipotence and that City could not be bad enough to lose top 4.

The look in the eyes of the big two towards the end of the match yesterday was one of someone who has just suddenly woke up weeks late and figured out what we all did long ago. And that is worrying for two men in their position who have presumably promised Pep something very different.

The media today are full of the awful City fans walking out on Pellegrini and yet I have not seen one yet suggest he has done any of the above things. Maybe like our top brass they think it inconceivable as well.

But I genuinely believe this is why many City fans did not say thank you. They distrust the way he has managed the team in recent months to the extent that some are suggesting sabotage. I really do not think it was that. But I do think that his priorities wandered at the expense of our league position and nobody at the club seems to have seen the risks that he was taking.