Your Top 3 City Managers...

For me being born in 72 - I missed the great years - I started loving City in 78 but only because of my mate and they wore blue. Over the years I enjoyed McNeill, Kendall (brief), Reid, Horton, Royle, Keegan & Sven years. But we really didn't have much choice.

My top 3 in terms of history are below:-
Pellers
Mercer/Allison
Mancini

The top 3 in terms of my life & what I recall are:-
Pellers
Mancini
Keegan
 
I'll tell you the three worst: Benson, Poyser, Coppell (with Allison -in managerial role - a close runner-up)
 
crystal_mais said:
For me being born in 72 - I missed the great years - I started loving City in 78 but only because of my mate and they wore blue. Over the years I enjoyed McNeill, Kendall (brief), Reid, Horton, Royle, Keegan & Sven years. But we really didn't have much choice.

My top 3 in terms of history are below:-
Pellers
Mercer/Allison
Mancini

The top 3 in terms of my life & what I recall are:-
Pellers
Mancini
Keegan
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I'm slightly older than you and I'd tend to agree with that, save that I saw the Book team and they were also entertainers.
 
Bluebee2 said:
In your opinion mate, the thread title is your top three City managers, and my number one is Allison.
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Definitely not. As a coach, under Joe Mercer, he was brilliant. But when he came back in the late seventies, replacing Booky, he damned near finished us off. We only truly started to recover when HRH came in. My top 3 would be Mercer, Pellegrini and Mancini. Joe at number 1, not sure about the order for the following two. Mancini ended the drought but Pellegrini has us playing, on our day, absolutely fantastic football.
 
jimharri said:
Definitely not. As a coach, under Joe Mercer, he was brilliant. But when he came back in the late seventies, replacing Booky, he damned near finished us off. We only truly started to recover when HRH came in. My top 3 would be Mercer, Pellegrini and Mancini. Joe at number 1, not sure about the order for the following two. Mancini ended the drought but Pellegrini has us playing, on our day, absolutely fantastic football.
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I think "only started to recover when HRH came in" is stretching it a bit, jim. We were bottom when he was sacked and in a cup final around six months later!
 
I think what Mancini did in terms of success in such a short space of time from where we were under Hughes to FA cup winners to premier league winners was a great achievement.

Mancini
Pellegrini
Keegan
 
jimharri said:
Definitely not. As a coach, under Joe Mercer, he was brilliant. But when he came back in the late seventies, replacing Booky, he damned near finished us off. We only truly started to recover when HRH came in. My top 3 would be Mercer, Pellegrini and Mancini. Joe at number 1, not sure about the order for the following two. Mancini ended the drought but Pellegrini has us playing, on our day, absolutely fantastic football.
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To be fair so did Mancini in our title winning season.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I think "only started to recover when HRH came in" is stretching it a bit, jim. We were bottom when he was sacked and in a cup final around six months later!
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I meant financially Gordon. That initial 6 or 7 months under John Bond was brilliant. Inspired signings in Bobby Mac, Gerry Gow and Hutch carried us to a league cup semi final (Alf Grey, you ****) and the cup final against Spurs. But let's be honest; the 80s and 90s were, for the vast majority of the time, fucking horrific. We had the successive promotions under Royle, and that wonderful season in the Championship under KK around the turn of the millennium, but it was all done on a hand to mouth basis. By the time we sold Sweep, we didn't have a pot to piss in. Thaksin somewhat steadied the ship, but September 2008 was the real turning point, the day that enabled us to go to another level.
 
Sorry the previous message should have read: Being an old fart who obviously doesn't know how to post a reply but who has seen us win the league 3 times this;
1 Mercer
2 Mancini
3 Pellegrini
Not in order of ability, my favourite being Joe, but that may be nostalgia.
 
Mercer and Pellegrini. I wouldn't include Mancini because when it got tough he couldn't turn it around. Pellegrini had a bad patch, and against my own expectations he turned it around without histrionics and criticising everyone else.

For so much of my time as a City fan, the club was managed overall by Swales and that influenced everything.
 
(in no order)
Mancini,
trophies, passion and fixed Hughes' mess. Signed the right players

Keegan,
brought us back where we belong and kept us there. Arguably most important manager in recent history (Obviously Royle is in the same bracket, but he couldn't keep us in the PL).

Sven,
had us in the top 4 into January. Absolute disgrace that he was sacked
 
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