Agree completely with Alan Shearer!
In my opinion, sacking Mancini - paying him and his back room staff off to add to it - will be an even more of a step back than this season.
The money paid out on sacking him will no doubt affect FFP and who we can sign, players will have to get used to a new manager and new system which is a gamble, and who is to say players who have flourished under Mancini start to go to pot with a new manager because of their desired systems?
Mancini knows his team, he knows the faults and how to repair them, he knows we didn't press on from last season and improve the team.
Who is better than him?? Mourinho ain't gonna' come because he has the scum job on his mind down the pipeline, Guardiola is at Bayern, Ancelotti looks set to replace Mourinho at Madrid, Klopp wants to stay at Borussia.
Pellegrini, Simeone, Conte, Laudrup to name a few are all great coaches, but Mancini is as good if not better than them, his trophy haul proves that!
FORZA Mancini I say, one bad season does not justify a sacking if you ask me! He is putting a lot towards building the foundations for where our club will be in 10 years time, developing us an identity and putting trophies in the cabinet at the same time.
We are a new club to the big time in football, we have to have patience, and from what I see is steady progress - yes with a few mistakes made here and there - but no doubt we are slowly becoming the force Mansour hoped to see from us when he bought us.
We don't have the mentality or identity yet of United; Madrid, Barca, Bayern, Milan and Juventus, these clubs have an aura around them in which players automatically know what is expected of them when players sign their contract's for them. Attitude has played a huge downfall on our season this year, Mancini has tried to put it in place with his demands and criticism of players, eventually it will all click into place and players who play for City will know everytime they go on the pitch they have to play at 100%.
Look at United! Some of their first team would probably not even make our bench but because of the aura and expectations around United, players raise their games and play to their potential pretty much most of the time.
If this City team was a United team, it would not suprise me it getting close to 100 points and close to the CL final! The identity of playing for the scum makes every players attitude and concentration 100% at all times, and until our identity, attitude and expectations become matched of that of the current great sides in Europe we will keep getting inconsistency.
Fergie spent a tough first few years trying to put a mentality and identity back in the scum, his managerial stability is the reason why they have that annoying yet praiseworthy attitude of always playing at 100%, and know what is always expected of you, and to go on and do more than that. Would United be the force they are today if they sacked Fergie after those first couple of years and gone though a few more managers in the process? I don't know but I doubt it.
Mancini is the man who is trying no doubt to create this mentality at our club, it is not going to be an overnight process as it take years! By doing this we need stability and sacking Mancini puts us another step behind at achieving this feat!
