Mancini

[Haydn]

It seems unlikely we're going to win the title from here, we will most likely be 8 points behind come Sunday before facing a tough game away to Arsenal. We could win the league, but we are now relying on United dropping points other than against us, and we have to win pretty much every game we have left. I just can't see it happening.

I ask you:

a) do you think Mancini will be our manager next season?
b) do you want Mancini to be our manager next season?
c) if you want him gone, who do you want as a replacement?

I certainly want him to stay as manager, I think he's a top manager, knows what he's doing (most of the time) and there are very few better managers around. But it looks as if we are going to end the season without a trophy and I wonder if the owner will stick with him.

If he does go the only man I can think of who the owner will go for is Mourinho. He's a big name and has had success in England before, and he's said he would like a return to England.

Your thoughts?

 

[marbella blue]

It seems unlikely we're going to win the title from here, we will most likely be 8 points behind come Sunday before facing a tough game away to Arsenal. We could win the league, but we are now relying on United dropping points other than against us, and we have to win pretty much every game we have left. I just can't see it happening.

I ask you:

a) do you think Mancini will be our manager next season?
b) do you want Mancini to be our manager next season?
c) if you want him gone, who do you want as a replacement?

I certainly want him to stay as manager, I think he's a top manager, knows what he's doing (most of the time) and there are very few better managers around. But it looks as if we are going to end the season without a trophy and I wonder if the owner will stick with him.

If he does go the only man I can think of who the owner will go for is Mourinho. He's a big name and has had success in England before, and he's said he would like a return to England.

Your thoughts?

Have to stick with Bobby for me, only 2nd full season and has achieved 3rd with FA CUP and probably 2nd this year. I think some fans need to be more realistic, we would have jumped at that 4/5 years ago, it was easy to get carried away with our early season form but it has always been my opinion that this team is far from the finished product, we have waited a long time, another season or 2 is ok by me. I believe JM would be a massive mistake!

 

[steve_scfc]

The fact that you have the best squad and yet still do not win the title must be galling for the owners.

I think if you could get Sir Alex you'd be almost guarenteed the title next year, anyone else and I'm not so sure.

If he was to come how would he be greeted?

 

[HugoEkitikeN01]

Anything can happen in football-All is not lost.At the begining of the season no one wth the shadow of doubts that you people are not going
to run away with the title.Tevez saga has done some damage to your club also;if he has not gone awol at some stage in the season you people
would have more points than you currently have.Most people want the title to change hand this season at least.
I am not saying Tevez is every thing..but he have the experience of the premiership compared with new recruits.

 

[Father_Jack_Hackett]

The fact that you have the best squad and yet still do not win the title must be galling for the owners.

we don't have the best squad if we did we would be miles ahead of united by now, Dzeko has been a failure, Balotelli needs a good fecking kick up the arse and Tevez went AWOL, how would Baconface have managed the squad any better with his top striker on golfing holiday for 3 months?

I think if you could get Sir Alex you'd be almost guarenteed the title next year, anyone else and I'm not so sure.

If he was to come how would he be greeted?

The standard of wumming here gets worse by the week.

 

[Haydn]

Suggesting Ferguson would even consider joining City, even just for a discussion, is ridiculous. There is absolutely NO chance of that happening. Nobody at City would want him, and why would he want to throw away his legendary status at United at such a late stage of his career?

 

[Father_Jack_Hackett]

Roberto Mancini's Manchester City future is not guaranteed beyond the end of the season and the club's chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, will review whether the Italian's abrasive management style is helping to move the club forward, if they lose out to Manchester United in the title race.

The relationship between Mancini and Al-Mubarak has always been a good one and the manager's more ruthless mentality than his predecessor, Mark Hughes, is perceived to have been a vital asset by the Abu Dhabis, with whom Mancini has established far closer direct relations than Hughes ever did. But Mancini's determination to stick with Mario Balotelli in a season when he has publicly challenged other players is having an increasingly divisive and toxic effect in the dressing room and damaging the manager's credibility with his squad.

Narrowly losing out to United may be acceptable to City's owners – who had targeted this, their fourth season of ownership as "the year we were going to go for it" and "win the league". But a more substantial deficit on United – six or more points, perhaps – and further evidence of the internal strife that has left James Milner as the latest disgruntled squad member may force a rethink. Mancini, who has spent £240m on 16 senior players and is at serious risk of ending the season with no silverware, has 12 months remaining on his current £3.5m-a-year deal, so the cost of parting company with him would not be substantial. He will get a new contract if he stays.

http://youtu.be/TjJHnKw7YNA




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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...b-in-doubt-due-to-citys-disarray-7608895.html

 

[HugoEkitikeN01]

Suggesting Ferguson would even consider joining City, even just for a discussion, is ridiculous. There is absolutely NO chance of that happening. Nobody at City would want him, and why would he want to throw away his legendary status at United at such a late stage of his career?

Money talk.....making an offer he cannot refuse is going to do the trick.

 

[Paulpowersleftfoot]

I'd only be happy to see baconface come to city if it was to watch a public burning of the vile ****

 

[Alan]

I'd only be happy to see baconface come to city if it was to watch a public burning of the vile ****

Very classy post. Expect nothing less from you Bertie ****.

 

[Paulpowersleftfoot]

Thanks alan

 

[steve_scfc]

we don't have the best squad if we did we would be miles ahead of united by now, Dzeko has been a failure, Balotelli needs a good fecking kick up the arse and Tevez went AWOL, how would Baconface have managed the squad any better with his top striker on golfing holiday for 3 months?

The standard of wumming here gets worse by the week.

You do have the best squad in my opinion FJH - But a squad does not necessarily make a team.

Regarding Sir Alex - In my view there are only 3 managers that no amount of money could buy and two of them are no longer with us - Shankly, Paisley and Ferguson.

and finally, yes I'm wumming but I've seen much worse.

 

[Dave A]

we don't have the best squad if we did we would be miles ahead of united by now, Dzeko has been a failure, Balotelli needs a good fecking kick up the arse and Tevez went AWOL, how would Baconface have managed the squad any better with his top striker on golfing holiday for 3 months?



The standard of wumming here gets worse by the week.

You have easilly got the best squad. No other team can claim to have a spine as good as Hart, Kompany, Toure, Silva and Aguero. It's the wings where you're lacking most imo and it's the wings where United are strongest. The problem is, having the best squad, player for player, doesn't always equal the best team. Motivation can be a massive influence on how well the players perform as can getting it right tactically. You say Dzeko has been a flop, he's certainly not set the league alight, but he's done better than most strikers in the league this season and that's without you playing to his strengths.

That siad, I do think Mancini is a good manager and I think it would be a mistake for City if your owners got rid of him.

 

[Cruyff's Turn]

Your argument doesn't stack up does it? The best squad has to include the effect that certain key members have had on the performance of the team.Tevez and,to a lesser extent Balotelli have,through their indiscipline, served to undermine a good manager and the rest of your squad.

It's probably the polar opposite of what we have had at Norwich where excellent discipline and team spirit have raised the whole team,management and supporters.I think if United fail to beat QPR you have a slim chance,if they do though it's all over.