The Manchester City Freakshow has begun....

[kiam06]

No need for the personal insults. You've put your opinion across; surely Kiam is entitled to his? As for getting behind Mancini; pity some of our fans couldn't get behind Hughes.

More important than the fans backing, he was backed by the owners to the tune of 200 mil. I think that's the important bit.

The owners were patient enough for them and that's all that matters.

I see your point but I just think he needed at least one more transfer window as our league position is ok, we are still in touch with the top four so it seems a little bit of a knee jerk reaction to me. We could have left it to the summer and maybe got a Hiddink or Mourinho instead of the 'only option available' which is Mancini.

We are rushing into settling for second best.

 

[zandvoort blue]

If we had stuck with Hughes to the end of the season, what would have been the outcome? More draws, finishing about 7th in the league, and losing a high scoring Carling Cup semi-final cos we currently can`t defend to save our lives.
If changing the manager means we progress, then I`m all for it. Don`t forget our owners are professionals, and they don`t fuck about. If a decision has to be made they will do it. Hughes and the like were on big money, and that`s big money on the promise of results.
FORZA ROBERTO.

 

[Project]

Mancini was given a ready made team? What about the acquisitions of Maxwell, Maicon, Chivu, Balotelli, Ibrahimovic?

If those players are so great where are the Champions League trophies at Inter??

So let's criticise our new manager because he hasn't won a CL trophy in the 3 seasons he took part in it.

 

[kiam06]

If we had stuck with Hughes to the end of the season, what would have been the outcome? More draws, finishing about 7th in the league, and losing a high scoring Carling Cup semi-final cos we currently can`t defend to save our lives.
If changing the manager means we progress, then I`m all for it. Don`t forget our owners are professionals, and they don`t fuck about. If a decision has to be made they will do it. Hughes and the like were on big money, and that`s big money on the promise of results.
FORZA ROBERTO.

Again your point would hold more water if it was Gus Hiddink or Jose Mourinho coming in but Roberto Mancini???

Is he really a big improvement I am not sure, hopefully I am proved wrong for City's sake.

 

[SWP's back]

The 'typical city' tag still remains,

but i feel it will soon end, people will be eating their words when we turn this around.

Hope you a right but I can't see any logic in today's decision, Mancini is on a par with Hughes at best a good player and an inexperienced manager. His Serie A titles are irrelevant as he was given a ready made team and his main opponents AC and Juve had been either relegated or docked points.

I would love to feel confident about his appointment but I just don't, but I will still get behind the guy as the club comes first.

Kiam talks bollocks newsflash!!

Inexperienced my arse,

 

[kiam06]

If those players are so great where are the Champions League trophies at Inter??

So let's criticise our new manager because he hasn't won a CL trophy in the 3 seasons he took part in it.

But he was manager of Inter Milan not Rochdale!! Surely they should be expected to compete for Champions League trophies but they didn't. If he can't get a team like that playing in competitive competitions what hope does he have at City?

 

[Humlannitton]

There is a strong bond between Sven-Goran Eriksson and Mancini, if anyone didn't know. Mancini played in two clubs for Eriksson, and then was appointed assistant manager by Eriksson in Lazio. Not sure where to go with that information though.

 

[Dale Blue]

There is a strong bond between Sven-Goran Eriksson and Mancini, if anyone didn't know. Mancini played in two clubs for Eriksson, and then was appointed assistant manager by Eriksson in Lazio. Not sure where to go with that information though.

What do you reck? Sven for director of football at City?

 

[kiam06]

Hope you a right but I can't see any logic in today's decision, Mancini is on a par with Hughes at best a good player and an inexperienced manager. His Serie A titles are irrelevant as he was given a ready made team and his main opponents AC and Juve had been either relegated or docked points.

I would love to feel confident about his appointment but I just don't, but I will still get behind the guy as the club comes first.

Kiam talks bollocks newsflash!!

Inexperienced my arse,

He was a good player who landed on his feet as a manager just like Guardiola at Barca he does not have the experience to come into a club like City who do not already have a winning mentality and turn it around, it should have been Gus Hiddink who has a proven track record of turning average sides into good sides.

We are taking a massive risk for no reason.

 

[80s Shorts]

Kiam talks bollocks newsflash!!

Inexperienced my arse,

He was a good player who landed on his feet as a manager just like Guardiola at Barca he does not have the experience to come into a club like City who do not already have a winning mentality and turn it around, it should have been Gus Hiddink who has a proven track record of turning average sides into good sides.

We are taking a massive risk for no reason.

Apart from failing to Qualify for the world cup, steadying a team of internationals at chelsea and doin a bit in ditch league,, wat has hiddink done please.