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Shaelumstash said:
Totally agree with this. It's not like we've not had fair warning. It's not like he picked an appropriate side and we got unlucky.

Delph has played left wing 5 or 6 times and been diabolical every time. Picking him there from the start again and him being shite wasn't unfortunate, it was negligent.

Fernando and Yaya have been an absolutely dreadful partnership over the last two seasons. Neither are mobile enough to be the player who is meant to press. If we insist on playing two in the middle, Fernandinho or Delph simply have to play.

Again, it's not unlucky that we lacked energy in central midfield. It's a direct result of the two players picked to play there not being suitable as a partnership.

Bringing Bony on to play alongside Aguero when we need a goal has never worked from what I can recall off the top of head, not once. Yet desperate for a goal away from home he brings Bony on with ten minutes left.

All 3 decisions were down to rank stubborness in the manager. He's determined not to take in to account what has gone on in past games. He'd rather close his eyes and hopes it will all be different this time, as long as he has "trust" everything will work out.
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So frustrating isn't it?
 
KippaxCitizen said:
So frustrating isn't it?
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To be honest mate, I was infuriated with him last season, no doubt in my mind that he held us back. I caught wind last summer that we were getting Pep, so this season I've not been as frustrated. I've just been counting down the days until he leaves.

Games like Newcastle are irritating, we really should be rolling over teams like that. The manager's decisions have not helped at all, in fact they have hindered us an awful lot this season. For reasons best known to him, he's just not going to change, so we have to just accept it. Thankfully it's only another 7 more games maximum that we have to put up with it.

He has been much better in Europe than domestically this season. I think he knows this is his last ever chance to win the Champions League, so he is being pragmatic, making us more solid, harder to beat. We look so much better like that, so it just baffles me how he takes the exact opposite approach in the Premier League. Attack at all costs, no matter how silly it makes us look in midfield and at the back.
 
It'll all be over soon folks. The cadaver can be put back on the gurney and wheeled away to enthrall and delight another set of fans.
 
BillyShears said:
I think the drift(wood) is in the playing squad as well. Pellegrini will rightly carry the can for all the shit performances this season. But there's a reason why probably 8/9 first team players will follow him out the door. A combination of past their sell by date, can't be trusted, and were never good enough.
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Can't disagree, but even more irritating is that it felt like the end of an era 12 months ago.
Nothing's changed.
 
Let's hope our players, cumulatively and collectively get us over the finishing line in the league top four because the manager has failed to guarantee us that spot which should be a given, let's face it.
 
Managed us really poorly in the league over the past two seasons and in truth there was no need for it to be like that.

Hopefully it will be corrected with the new manager and and a number of quality fresh faces.
 
GaudinoMotors said:
Don't all football managers - especially when they make the same mistakes repeatedly?
I'd think the likelihood of this goldfish approach to selection is slightly less with Pep.
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There's criticism and there's bile. Sadly we have too many fans on here not capable of the former. He does deserve the former, no one should be receiving the latter imo
 
avoidconfusion said:
"Well done" my arse. Has taken us backwards massively.
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nellyonthewing said:
2 points in front of the Rags. Well done my arse.
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Backwards and pathetically so. The most horrible season since the takeover - in fact since before the takeover because there was hope and joy before that. Now there is only frustration and dispair at the managers stubbornness.
 
hutton who blue said:
Let's hope our players, cumulatively and collectively get us over the finishing line in the league top four because the manager has failed to guarantee us that spot which should be a given, let's face it.
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Well mate. It's the players attitude that make people on here slam Pellegrini like he single handedly made this PL season a farce. Motivation helps but players like the experienced ones we have shouldn't need it. Not even bringing in the money they make which is disgusting. That's where it starts. Not with putting 11 men out in whatever formation.
 
Pellegrini is out of his depth. He has said that he'd rather lose silverware by starting inferior players than bench somebody who isn't performing. Is it any wonder the players aren't performing? He's basically told them that they don't even have to put forth an effort and they won't lose any match time.

He repeatedly plays the completely useless Bony ahead of Iheanacho. (I am convinced that City would be at the very least safely qualified for the CL next year if Iheanacho got Bony's minutes)

Let's put Yaya in a midfield two. Oh and lets play Delph on the wing while we're doing it!
 
eversince 76 said:
Well mate. It's the players attitude that make people on here slam Pellegrini like he single handedly made this PL season a farce. Motivation helps but players like the experienced ones we have shouldn't need it. Not even bringing in the money they make which is disgusting. That's where it starts. Not with putting 11 men out in whatever formation.
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It's because of the renumerations that motivation and man management are important skill sets. He appears lacking.
 
HolisticJim said:
Backwards and pathetically so. The most horrible season since the takeover - in fact since before the takeover because there was hope and joy before that. Now there is only frustration and dispair at the managers stubbornness.
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You mustn't like Wembley wins and Champions League semi final then?

Maybe we shoul bring back Steve Coppell?
 
Shaelumstash said:
If one or two people who work for you are demotivated, that can be out of your control. Everyone goes through things in their personal and professional life that can result in a drop off in performance.

But whatever the industry, football, fast food, banking, whatever, if the majority of the workers are demotivated, it is the management's fault.

If the recruitment was wrong to begin with, and you've got a load of "bad eggs" that makes the manager's job harder. But it's still the manager's responsibility to learn how to motivate each individual, find out what makes each person tick, that's what man management is.

If there is a general complacency, lack of motivation, dissatisfaction, sulking or whatever, if it is affecting the whole group, it is absolutely 100% a management issue.

Managing a football team is not like a computer game where you select the players with the best statistics to play in their best positions. It's a little more complex than that. You have to manage men. Rich, successful men. Men with huge drive, huge ego's.

It must be an enormously difficult job, I don't envy Pellegrini, or any other manager having to deal with it day to day. But the point remians, if our gross underachievement in the league the last two seasons is down to a lack of motivation in the players, then the manager is directly responsible. It's his fault.
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absolutely 100% true.
 
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