Utterly hopeless against the weakest Ajax team in decades. Too many egos, too much money, no love of the Club, lousy manager. Jose had all the same elements and moulded a team of incredible tenacity, with players ready to run till they dropped. The slackers, like Joe Cole for a while, got the elbow, but then got the picture and responded brilliantly. Joe was at his best under Jose, and for the first time in his career, worked his ring off for the team. Mancini can't do the business. He is forever putting out fires with his lazy arrogant players. My only concern is that when he gets the arse, Jose will get the gong. If he does it's game over for all of us.
Mancini has done OK given his limitations. God forbid Jose or a proper manager went there though, then we'd really be in the ****. City look like they are believing their own hype this year. Everyone wants to beat the champions hence why it is said it is harder to defend a title than win it.
I still see them as the main challenger for the Prem and to that end them still involved in the CL would be of benefit to us. They don't and won't care about the EL as they showed last year.
They seem to have arsed it up good and proper in Europe last year and this, but their performance in the PL is pretty impressive. Of the Mancs I they will provide the biggest test!
A champion team will always beat a team of champions - this is the danger for City as we found out at Chelsea; its all very well accumulating the latest talents in the universe, only one problem.......you can only put 11 players on the paddock and no one will stomach bench-warming for too long. That being said I still see City being up for the Premiership title come May - as with other EPL teams struggling in CL I don't see it as a drop in standards; I think there's more of a level playing field in Europe where the availability of talent is not limited to the usual suspects: Barca, Utd, Real or Bayern. As for Jose, it was a pity for City that he didnt replace Hughes as they would've reaped far greater rewards - now with the FFP coming into force it would be interesting to see how he would cope with a limited transfer budget.
Sorry cannot agree with your points, yes we were poor the other night but I think you do Ajax a disservice, they are not what they were but they played some great football and would give the majority of teams in the ECL a game. To many egos, money, no love! you obviously didn't see us beat WBA with 10 men and the celebration that followed,not to mention the last six games of last season. Mancini, not been here 3 years yet, delivered 2 trophies our 1st ones in ages. I don't see or want Jose coming here so don't be concerned. In conclusion I'd expect this **** to come from a utd,arse or tots fan but there you go, good luck Sunday
It was a great comeback v WBA and credit to the players, not Mancini for that. How many more times will late come backs get your manager out of jail??
So when the players play well it's down to them and when they play **** it's down to the manager, sorry cannot subscribe to that, Mancini makes mistakes as do all managers but the players have be responsible as well, the last 5min in Madrid was not down to Mancini.
The players do have to be responsible of course but personally I think Mancini is an average manager who benefitted massively from the scandal in Italy and has benefitted from massive investment whilst at City. Even still, he has constantly failed at the biggest stage i.e the Champions League. Inter sold their best player and won the treble when Jose went there, before then under Mancini they struggled. Likewise it looks like 2 eliminations on the trot with you guys. I can see why you're happy with him given the trophies but frankly that would have happened anyway when you spend that level of money and even then you nearly blew the league twice last year.
