Who’s your favourite City manager ever?

For me I can't pick just one because the three I have chosen were all of a different time, but all to me are legends.

1: Joe Mercer/Malcolm Allison. I put these as a team because both admitted they just complimented each other perfectly and when they split that proved to be the case. As a kid they were my absolute heroes and I hung onto every word and believed with them at the helm anything was possible. Until recent events they managed the best players and most successful period in our history and played great football too.

2: Roberto Mancini. He came into the club when the euphoria of the takeover was waning. Although we were obviously better than we were, which wasn't difficult, we weren't ripping up any trees. He tightened things up, gave us a meaner edge and a winning mentality. He connected with the fan's and I don't give a shit what anyone says or who he fell out with he got us, he really did. He rattled Ferguson like no other manager ever had and played a blinder when it looked like we had blown the title. He promised to rip down that fucking banner and did it and moved the mentality of the club to a whole new level. Don't forget we had won nothing for 35 years and no title for 44 and he put that to bed. A legend.

3: Pep. An absolute football genius who has the team playing the best football I have seen in 50 years of following City. We are privileged to have him and watch the football on the pitch he creates in his head. Long may it continue.

I can pick just one and it's Pep by a comfortable distance. I think there's a good chance that he will prove to be not just the best manager City has ever had but also the greatest head coach that football has ever seen. That aside, I'm another that wholeheartedly endorses what you have said.
 
I can pick just one and it's Pep by a comfortable distance. I think there's a good chance that he will prove to be not just the best manager City has ever had but also the greatest head coach that football has ever seen. That aside, I'm another that wholeheartedly endorses what you have said.

Oh Pep is no doubt a genius who lives breathes and sleeps football but Mercer and Mancini did fantastic jobs where the club was at the time. Mercer rebuilt a whole club, got it promoted and won trophies in a short timespan. If it wasn't for mismanagement at boardroom level we should have been set up for years to come.

Mancini had to change the mentality of a club used to decades of cock up's and failure and he achieved that.

I hope Pep stays longer than his contract and builds a real dynasty.
 
Pep just about beats Bobby but I loved Joe who dragged us back from the edge of the cliff and Tony Book who was manager when I went to my first match.

Pep is the fucking man though
 
I can pick just one and it's Pep by a comfortable distance. I think there's a good chance that he will prove to be not just the best manager City has ever had but also the greatest head coach that football has ever seen. That aside, I'm another that wholeheartedly endorses what you have said.
Last time we met was in EL3 on the concourse if you remember mate in Pep's first season..I voiced my concerns on whether his tictacs would work in this league. You was adamant he would prove all doubters wrong, including myself(at that time).
Glad to be proven wrong as Guardiola is clearly proving the manager you said he would become given time: )
 

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