Maybe AVB went to attack City and thought they were there for the taking after losing their last match. It's rarely easy to blend a new midfield together, so it's a good idea to give AVB time, he's a good coach who'll get it right eventually. You've got a good chance to put this result to bed against us next week as we are not playing well at all, if you get a result against us I'm sure that will give you some much needed confidence after yesterday. I don't fancy our chances to be honest.
That may well be the case, but then we still only had one striker on the field, who spent a large amount of time in completely un-threatening positions who was backed up by Holtby.
Capello is not a proven winner in English football, his success came mostly in Italian football. Which I know you know, but as a person he has zero personality, isn't engaging and would bring a headmaster type approach, which would stifle the team more then currently, so if you want to look at Capello as a serious option just because he was a great coach then you can do, but he certainly isn't what this squad needs.
Just like George graham was a proven winner but wasn't what this club needed.
We need a charismatic manager, someone with a spark that can create a great team spirit and let players express their ability. the dour strict approach like Graham, or Ramos may lead to a carling cup but the longer they stay, they slowly zap the life out of the club.
I'm not saying he is my first choice, but for me he would be a step up from AVB despite his flaws. Yeh he is just as dull, but I highly doubt we would get stuffed like we did with him in charge. He also won in spain, and has alot of CL experience and is easily better or at least more qualified then any manager we have had recently and others we could be looking at.
I think Rafa was good at liverpool, and despite what people said about him, he vastly improved the value of his squad vs his overall spend, achieved 2 CL finals and a prem runner up spot (admitedly should have won) and assembled the best CM i've ever seen in Gerrard, Masc and Alonso with Gerrard feeding Torres.
If they had had a decent winger, even one as good as Lennon then I think they would have won the league.
Fact is, Martinez, Rodgers, Laudrup, Rafa, and Wenger all play possesion football, they play exciting football and score goals.
We play possesion football, sideways passes and and score f all because we are set up to negate an opposition. Even at home. They in turn are able to negate us because our tactics never change, and counter our high line with effective quick balls, and know we won't score.
This cannot continue, despite all peoples best intentions to look at the situation favouribly. It doesn't matter how good the defense is if you cannot score, but when you conceid 10 goals in 3 defeats something isn't right.
