Your Top 3 City Managers...

Mercer, Pel and Sven for me. I dunno why, but I like the cut of Sven's womanising gib.
 
1. Mercer/Alison - They got us to eclipse the "Evil Red Empire" only for the Club hierarchy to fuck it up prior to the Premier League starting, things could have been so much different if we had been run better.

2. Mancini - He started the current success and stood up to Fergie's bullying tactics and came out on top, I will always have a soft spot for him.

3. Royle - He stopped the rot when things could have downhill fast.
 
Big Joe for a couple of amazing promotion years
Mancini for bringing back the glory
Mel Machin - I started going to away games during his time so have some great memories. Bradford 1-1, Huddersfield 10-1 and 2-2 in the cup, Bournemouth 3-3, Walsall 3-3, Sunderland 2-4 in midweek when i should have been at school, and of course the Maine Road Massacre 5-1, first derby win for almost a decade with a core of local lads. Didn't seem to have the charisma to be a top manager but certainly respected as a coach.
 
Brian Horton made a great team out of a load of dross. He won over the fans and the players. Shame the club was in chaos when he was here or in another light imagine where the club would be without him. He left and we dropped 2 leagues within 2 years!
 
Brian Horton made a great team out of a load of dross. He won over the fans and the players. Shame the club was in chaos when he was here or in another light imagine where the club would be without him. He left and we dropped 2 leagues within 2 years!
 
Number one for me is Mercer.

He won the league with a team he had built and brought up from the second division. Then he won 3 trophies in the next two seasons.

Then Mancini and Pellegrini, with Mancini just ahead as he won the FA Cup.
 
urmston said:
Number one for me is Mercer.

He won the league with a team he had built and brought up from the second division. Then he won 3 trophies in the next two seasons.

Then Mancini and Pellegrini, with Mancini just ahead as he won the FA Cup.
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Damn - that was what I was going to post.
 
urmston said:
Number one for me is Mercer.

He won the league with a team he had built and brought up from the second division. Then he won 3 trophies in the next two seasons.

Then Mancini and Pellegrini, with Mancini just ahead as he won the FA Cup.
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mine are
mancini- our first tital of the new era ,
pellegrini- our 2nd tital of new era,
royal- i just thought he was a great man, humble and down to earth and what a great season when we won promotion to prem, that game against blackburn when christian daily scored an og (wasnt it?)

best and worst of the rest:- prior to royal for me horton had good tactics, post royal i'd say keegan was the most disapointing as he looked like a used car salesman that hadnt had a sale in a decade towards the end with us, pearce is not a manager so im not even talking about him (and that doesnt count) sven was ok for 1/2 a season then omg
 
In no particular order:
Mercer/Allison (you have to mention both with Allison way ahead of his time as a coach and Mercer to control him - just from reading historybooks).
Mancini (for all that's been said already on here, and giving me 5 days to remember: 1-6, FA-Cup semi final and final, and Aguero and when I ran in to him at Nero's).
Pellegrini (was thrilled when we signed him as I had followed him abroad, than totally living up to expectations in his ever charming way and attacking minded way).

Special mention Book, Bond, Royle and obviously Keegan. Again in no particular order.
 
Have to agree that top three must be Mercer, Mancini and Pellegrini, but other worthy contenders for me are Book, Keegan, Royle and Horton
 
Horton - very limited resources but great football - some of the time anyway!
Keegan - again great football esp 2001-02 Promotion season, at the time it seemed like we were finally on to something.
Mancini - enough said...

Pellers, Sven and Kendall would also get mentioned in dispatches for various reasons as well...
 
3. Pellegrini - carried on an already successful team, played good football, some good signings and very underated outside of City.

2. Mercer/ Allison - made City a powerhouse in the late 60's/70's (as we all know) loads of trophies, great players etc. took City from div.2 to champions, was easier for a team to do this then obviously with various teams having come out of div 2 to win the top division in a fairly short amount of time.

Also City's most successful manager (management team) with our only European cup to date and clearly they both had a love for City which is always a plus.

1. Mancini - you have to remember the situation he came into, City were on a run of something like 8 draws in a row before Hughes beat Sunderland 4-3, we were in 11th (ish?) he took us to one game off the champions league that season, 3rd and an FA Cup in his second and a community shield and the league in his 3rd. Not only that he had the added pressure of knowing that City had unlimited resources so as soon as anything went wrong everyone would be on his back.

He also did that whilst controlling players like Balotelli and Tevez who were clearly not the easiest characters. Obviously the characteristics that lead to his success at City were also his downfall. But without a doubt he did as well as anyone could do with the team he was given.

(I could include myself having won every trophy possible on Championship Manager 05 with Kiki Musampa as my star player ;)
 
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