We've got to where we are this season under Bobby. I don't see why we would ever get rid of him unless we did worse next season. I don't think it matters if we win the league because we have basically been top the entire season and Bobby has shown he has the managerial nounce to guide us to the title.
Certain elements of the squad just need tweaking in the summer and like last year we need a top pre-season and then we'll be sorted. If it wasn't for United we'd of walked this league already and they are in steady decline now, bringing back Scholes and the like shows they don't and can't rely on their own existing midfielders. Obviously they could strengthen but they just haven't got the resources to compete with us.
The only worry for Mancini and his job is if we don't do the business next year in the Champions League as in at least get past the groups because that is the next challenge and this years group was indeed a bit of a blip given we got a team that was in the final a year ago, a team that we beat comfortably and a team that at this moment is beating Chelsea to the quarter finals.
Providing we can stay 2 points at the most behind the scum to the derby i believe we will win that match and then it's going to be a very tense last few games but you have to admit they do have the best run in and they have the experience. Looking at their fixtures i can't see them losing any really except to us.
The way Arsenal are nicking matches at the moment i think we could drop a point there, Chelsea i think we'll win but there are some games you just can't put a score to like Newcastle away.
United could easily slip up too who knows, we have only ourselves to blame though if we do fail to take the title this year, games like Swansea, Sunderland, Fulham and Chelsea away could cost us. Our away form on the whole has been terrible and we have mainly been propped up by the best home form ever seen in the Premier League if we beat Chelsea.
I can't see Mourinho being the solution to fix this, the worst we can do now is take away the manager and leave the same group of players that got the results. Players get results not managers, i strongly believe Bobby is the right man even if we lose against Sporting tomorrow and then fail to win the title.
The tide is turning our way and bringing in another manager will just halt that progress, someone with different ideas and a different mindset of using his players is not what we need.[/quot
Very good post "inbetween", I think it would be a huge mistake to replace Mancini, when we are at a crucial stage of our development, we are going places, its our only second go at challenging for the premier league [ I was there in 1977 when we got pipped by Liverpool ], we need to back this team and manager.............
