Finished 2nd and gets the chop. According to the BBC, a club statement said he "had failed to achieve any of the club's stated targets this year, with the exception of qualification for next season's Champions League". Oh the heartache City fans must be feeling after finishing second, just imagine spending huge sums of money and only finishing second...oh the pain. I know they were aiming to retain the title, but seems harsh to me.
Can understand it. Awful in Europe, miles behind in the league against an average United team, falling out with plenty of first team players, criticising players and staff in public, not flying out to wherever to meet the owner when asked to. On paper he's done a good job but he had it coming.
Wow. That's bloody brutal. What's the difference between Mancini and a Mankini. Nothing, you can't avoid the sack.
Oh thanks, now youve bought back the memory of seeing a geordie in a lime green mankini the last time we were in the NPC. I thought I bleached that out of my mind!
I think its harsh and short sighted. Particularly as its also the week their close neighbours and biggest rivals say goodbye to a manager of 26 years who they were patient with a few times in the early years, and reaped enormous rewards.
He got an extra year he didn't deserve after our capitulation last year; he never looked comfortable in that job. Mark Hughes CV is winging it's way there as we speak.... ;->
Interesting stats on the BBC. Jose Mourinho 120 premier league games 85 wins 70.83 win % Sir Alex Ferguson 809 528 65.27 Carlo Ancelotti 76 48 63.16 Roberto Mancini 133 82 61.65 Arsene Wenger 636 366 57.55 Rafael Benitez 253 140 55.34 Wouldn't it be nice to have a manager with, say, a 40% win record?
I agree strongly. There can be no doubt that this entertainment of ours is a very strange environment to be in. I don't think I would enjoy working there despite the mega cash available.
The way they did it was atrocious but there are reasons beyond one relatively mediocre season on the pitch.
The farce of the top tier of English football ... I hope they sink ... Two clubs in the top tier have given massive clues on how to do it ... United and Arsenal ... City and Chelsea are both whores clubs ... trying to buy success ... exactly what we were trying to do ... thank heavens we are saved and will have to do with a massive lesson. We tried to buy just to survive and get a foot hold in the division ... the teams left there in DT's Middle league (which is beginning to evolve Swords you cross dresser! ... I was right after all ! and Swansea may win this league at what position ... 8th ... you can reply in 12 weeks or so! x ) are there by luck more than judgement IMO and with a load of weakness coming up next year and only three going down ... the league is a joke now. 2 cups which no one in the division really takes seriously won this year by Wigan and the beautiful Swans and four places which you can only go for if you have a squad worth at least 200 million ... In what world is that fair? ... Prefer to win a few games and build up a head of steam with our quality squad and rip back at them all. West Ham? in the division but without key mature players where's the football? Man City I am sure will have a clear out and Harold will be going to the boot sale
Totally agreed. Call me old fashion or whatever but I really do appreciate what MU, Everton, Arsenal have been doing. No team can always be number one ( although MU are trying ) but it is just so good to see the difference between the stayers and the 'flash the cash' types ( ManC & Chelsea )........... and yes, we to are getting our reward for trying to buy instead of build, a quality team ......... it hurts to say that.
Saying that United will now always be in the best position to buy the cream of talent ... Zara from Palace as an example and they can afford to loan him out
Mancini has been very poor, he deserves the sack. Yes, he won the league a few times in Italy but with an Inter side that had no competition at that time. They never got anywhere in Europe while he was there, Mourinho took over and won the treble with the same team!!! At City, he's spent £291m and won the FA Cup and a Premiership title that wouldn't have happened had our players not known it had finished at Stoke and we'd stayed up. Again in Europe they have been terrible, Real and Dortmund are good sides but they finished bottom of the group and with their squad they should be challenging in the latter stages. Add the fact that they play boring, by the numbers, football and I can totally understand the billionaire's in charge wanting someone different. Anyone that's spent £291m and still plays Gareth Barry and Joleon Lescott deserves to be fired. However, he'll still get a top job somewhere, in fact, he'll take his £15m+ pay off and head to a nice tax-free lifestyle managing Monaco, now owned by more billionaires with no football sense.
