Three questions you'd ask Manuel Pellegrini

[bacuzzi]

1. Has anyone ever told you there are no easy games in Football?
2. Was there a problem at the dry cleaners?
3. Did you know you are allowed to start James Milner?

 

[Luck95]

1. Are you in a sexual relationship with demichelis

2. Are you aware of the benefits Milner could bring to the game

3. Are you aware of the difference between the English and Spanish football leagues?

 

[BringBackSwales]

Wtf does Jimmy Milner have to do to get a game?

 

[allyboy]

1. Why haven't you learnt that in England there are no easy games. This is not Spain

2. Are you going to play 442 or 451 against Barcelona?

3. If you play 442 against them, will you please hand your P45 to Mr Soriano.

 

[der-bomber]

1 Why are we conceding soft , sloppy goals every game .

2 Why can you not set up our defence to stop this happening .

3 How long is it going to continue , because it is costing us games .....

 

[Plaything of the gods]

Question to the OP .
I agree Yaya isn't capt material but who out of the starting 11 would you have chosen ?

Personally I'd have started Milner as captain instead of Richards, if not Kompany, but from the starting 11 I'd have selected Lescott, but I'm not privy to the relative merits of the team members.

Why Lescott he`s no more more captain material than Yaya .. in a nutshell we lack leaders . only Komps & Zaba are anywhere near capable to wear the armband .So therefore I blame Pellers for not playing one of them .

Well both played full games midweek and are expected to start in Barcelona so I understand why he wanted to rest them. I was surprised that Kompany didn't come on for Demichelis at the start of the second half though. Hope he's not injured. I admit I chose Lescott by default from the starters and agree with you that there appear to be no natural leaders amongst them.

If I were picking the team I'd have started strong, hit Wigan hard and tried to kill the game early and then rest key players. Thus start Milner and Kompany for the right-sided defence and withdraw Kompany for Demichelis when Wigan were broken and Demichelis mistakes would be less frequent and less costly and pass the captaincy to Milner. I really don't get this start weak and slow, go behind and then chase the game attitude that the team, if not the manager, adopt for the 'weaker' opponents.

I'll be so disappointed if Demichelis isn't gone in the summer for a commanding CB that can step up to the captaincy in Kompany's absence. Also disappointed if makeweights Richards and Rodwell aren't sent out on PL loan to get some match practice and fitness and see whether they can actually cut the mustard; would need to get in a decent deputy RB as well of course.

 

[BringBackSwales]

1. Has Jimmy Milner ever let us down in your time with the club?

2. How many games has he started since being man of the match away at the European champions?

3. Would you give him a game if his name was Juan Milner?

 

[nicko]

Does it piss you off that fans who were hailing you as a god 6 weeks ago are now spitting venom at you?

Do you know that managing Man City is extremely bad for your health (and looked looked ill before you took the job)?

Do you realise how big a fuck up it will be if we don't win the league this year?

 

[Hart of the Matter]

We have won a trophy FFS. Get real. We are not going to win everything. Calling for his head, even if we do not win the league is just nuts. Our CB issue is critical. MP likes defenders to play on front foot, nick the ball and pass forward with precision and pace. Attack starts from the back. VK can do all this and defend. Our other 3 cannot. DM can pass and step in but has lost legs and positional sense. Lescott can defend but the game grounds to a halt. Nasty is ok in all departments but not great in any of them.
Lest we forget, we are in transition. Our strikers have not scored for ages. Our squad has not been fully fit at any point this season and we have played more games than anyone else. My questions for MP:
How are we doing in our long term goal to have a set football philosophy across all our teams and when will it start to deliver for our first team?
What have you learnt about English football in your first 9 months?
How can we meet our homegrown quota in future without weakening our squad?

 

[Marvin]

We have won a trophy FFS. Get real. We are not going to win everything. Calling for his head, even if we do not win the league is just nuts. Our CB issue is critical. MP likes defenders to play on front foot, nick the ball and pass forward with precision and pace. Attack starts from the back. VK can do all this and defend. Our other 3 cannot. DM can pass and step in but has lost legs and positional sense. Lescott can defend but the game grounds to a halt. Nasty is ok in all departments but not great in any of them.
Lest we forget, we are in transition. Our strikers have not scored for ages. Our squad has not been fully fit at any point this season and we have played more games than anyone else. My questions for MP:
How are we doing in our long term goal to have a set football philosophy across all our teams and when will it start to deliver for our first team?
What have you learnt about English football in your first 9 months?
How can we meet our homegrown quota in future without weakening our squad?

But Kompany was fit yet we played Demichelis. And Demichelis should not be playing despite the fact that he is quite a good footballer. He is a liability.

Some vald points, but this is a mature squad. Pellegrini's selection, his motivation of the players in these games, and his blind stubborn insistence f playing Demichelis threatens to destroy this season

A domestic treble was on. And it should have been. No one has a squad this strong.

We should have won trophies across the board this season and last.