The odds are currently heavily stacked on Pellegrini being his replacement. The betting then goes Mourinho, Ancelotti... Rodgers! For some reason Benitez is only 5th on the list. Wouldn't be a bad shout at 25/1.
Pellegrini has denied all knowledge. Just what does the City owner want? A title and FA Cup in three years isn't bad is it?
Spurs have never looked so stable by comparison. Will Mancini get paid up for the remainder of his contract? £30M, I think. I'd be sacked for that- no problem. City are rivalling Chelsea for the most arrogant, classless, myopic club in the PL.
They have put their money were their mouth is (unlike a certain Director/owner ) so they have set the benchmark at the highest level. Mancini knew any form non deliverance is unacceptable to them, it goes with the job. There endless cash pot means they can buy themselves out of any mistakes. (As Chelsea can ) IN two years they have won far more than we have in over 2 decades.
Luke,I've posted for a while now that City is built on very shaky foundations and that it will all come tumbling down. Next season just might see that happening. It's never really been a stable team at least not in recent years and I can see Europa beckoning or maybe not at all. Sid,we've been consistently in the top flight whereas they've been right down the divisions.
Mancini is a poor manager, he bought to many of the same players and didn't have enough flexibility in the system, hence the failings in Europe and the 'one season wonder' that was the title. Pellegrini would be an incredible appointment, a fantastic, reactive manager who always has a plan a, b, c & d, City would be a much stronger proposition with him, absolutely no question. Mancini will likely fleece £4-5million a year from AS Monaco, have a bet on that
Paolo's,I think care should be taken with appointing managers who take smaller clubs to success,remember Juande Ramos who did well for Sevilla was it,came here and flopped. I advise caution.
Mancini has paid for the club's abysmal European performances, if you want to be one of the top clubs successive failure to get out of the group stages is pretty unacceptable on their budget. Agreed Pellegrini is one of the absolute top managers around at the moment and City would be lucky to have him. I also think that Benitez, although he is the butt of many jokes and generally ridiculed, he has done a superb job to stabilise Chelsea and seal Champions League for them in such a hostile environment. City could do a lot worse than Rafa.
Of course, but Pellegrini's pedigree is stunning. He guided Villareal to CL football year on year, playing stunning football and competing, went to Madrid, did nothing wrong, and was wrongly sacked for losing to the best club side ever in a tight title race, and at my second club Malaga (I live in Marbella 6 months a year) he has done an incredible job. Initially bankrolled, he bought a team that instantly knitted together, no 3 of the same, every signing complimented another, he brought on youth players, he completely rebuilt the youth and community schemes, he then had the rug pulled, lost a massive chunk of his first XI then guided the rebuilt cobbled together team to within 15 seconds of a CL semi, and they are still riding high in a mega competitve league. Pellegrini is a fantastic manager.
RDM apparently stabilized Chelsea after AVB and look what happened to him. Chelsea have been too inconsistent to be described a stabilized. City have also been inconsistent losing 3-1 to us and Saints and losing to Wigan caps it all off.
Spot on this. Benitez is much-maligned, but again his record is exceptional. He ****ed up selling Alonso, and that one critical error maybe stopped the Fiesta pinchers from winning a title, he had them very, very close.
The only people who would say RDM stabilised Chelsea are Chelsea fans. I'd say the mark of a 'stabilised' club is improved league performances, and RDM's were no better than AVB's (arguably worse). RDM's incompetencies were just masked by two flukey cup runs.
I've just checked Pellegrini's record and he seems only to stay a year or two at his clubs. If he goes to City I'll give him less than a year. Spot on WY.
He was at Villareal 4 years and only left for the lure of Real. To be fired after a year at Madrid is hardly his fault, he did nowt wrong there!
Please raise your hand if you'd like a massive pay-off and a move to a tax haven, where you'll be paid another ton of cash?
He won the league against one of the worst performing United sides for a long time, on goal difference, with the last kick, on the last day, from 2-1 down, Roy of the Rovers stuff and for me, not convincing. This season is normal service and the owners should realise thats not too bad in the timeframe, but I'd agree two no shows in Europe shows a weakness, on the bright side it has attracted an award...not one they want though! worst performing English club ever.
Gossip says Pellegrini wants to make a signing for his new club Man City,it all moves too quickly for me. I'll give him a year if he goes there. Like a lot of foreign managers have found out he won't find the EPL as easy to win things as elsewhere. Four years is a one off for him Paolo's,look at the others. Mancini is in demand already.
