Mancini

[FA cup winners 2006]

watching ssn and hoping that there is soon gonna be breaking news that mancini has been sacked tonight. the prick is useless and we would be better with anyone else for the rest of the season.

[Ted Hughes]

I've defended him all season. If we'd lost today because we had Dzeko Tevez Aguero & AJ all stranded up one end & Arsenal scored 4 on the break, I would just shrug & go 'fair enough'. What I saw there is one of the worst, most inept, cowrdly managerial performances I've ever seen.

If someody can explain to me, what the fuck he was trying to do, I will gladly be educated.

Today, he was an absolute wanker.

just fuck off. the players on the pitch should have done the job that was asked of them.
if you think AJ is the answer to our bad form you need to learn more about football.

Fuck off yourself.

AJ is an attacker. If we failed to win today the title was over. Seeing as you know so much about football, do you think Ferguson would have taken off nasri & brought on a fucking fullback in a game he was desperate to win.

If you answer 'yes', you are a fucking liar.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Has he been sacked yet ?

[rohanm]

I've defended him all season. If we'd lost today because we had Dzeko Tevez Aguero & AJ all stranded up one end & Arsenal scored 4 on the break, I would just shrug & go 'fair enough'. What I saw there is one of the worst, most inept, cowrdly managerial performances I've ever seen.

If someody can explain to me, what the fuck he was trying to do, I will gladly be educated.

Today, he was an absolute wanker.

just fuck off. the players on the pitch should have done the job that was asked of them.
if you think AJ is the answer to our bad form you need to learn more about football.

Fuck off yourself.

AJ is an attacker. If we failed to win today the title was over. Seeing as you know so much about football, do you think Ferguson would have taken off nasri & brought on a fucking fullback in a game he was desperate to win.

If you answer 'yes', you are a fucking liar.

Agreed.
There were so many rubbish decisions made by mancini today.

AJ would have been useful. Hes the type to take it from the wings, into the box, create those chances. Clichy and zaba just couldnt do that. Also, i thought balo was definitely played out of position.

[blues2win]

The people complaining that the Mancini out camp are over reacting are missing the point. This isn't about one performance shocking though it was. It's about a season that's been collapsing since the New Year. My guess is that Mancini's indulgence in Balotelli is losing him the dressing room. It's not a happy camp and we're playing like it. He can't blame Brian Marwood for Balotelli. It was his call and he couldn't bring himself to admit it was the wrong one. Obviously he has no faith in Dzeko but he should have gambled on Johnson and Tevez. I would have accepted even a 2 or 3 nil defeat caused by being overstretched going for a win. Today we surrendered pure and simple. One of the worst performances by a City side in a match of this importance I've ever seen.

Of course if Khaldoun can't get a top notch manager we'll have to soldier on with Mancini but I have zero faith we'll kick on under him either in Europe or at home.

[ayrshireblue]

Maybe I'm getting pissed off with Mancini too. As has been said his starting line ups, subs, constant rotation and backing of Mario are all wrong. But I definitely don't want someone like Mourinho with his lack of morals in in his place. I used to like watching Real Madrid but can't watch them anymore because of the antics of Mourinho, Pepe and Marcelo. If we must get rid of Mancini please get in someone who doesn't win at any cost, but instead wins with a bit of style and grace.

[Blue Since 76]

Let's fast forward 12 months till Mourinho has spent £100 million and we've not won the league and the football isn't bombastic. Do we sack him and try someone else? Give any manager at least 3 full seasons.

Alan ball? Frank Clark? Or just the good ones?

[PeterParker]

Let's fast forward 12 months till Mourinho has spent £100 million and we've not won the league and the football isn't bombastic. Do we sack him and try someone else? Give any manager at least 3 full seasons.

He won't buy that much. He will bring almost no one. He will get rid of Mario, will put Adebayor in shape, like he did last year and so on.

[rohanm]

Why wasnt silva on the squad again?

[ayrshireblue]

Let's fast forward 12 months till Mourinho has spent £100 million and we've not won the league and the football isn't bombastic. Do we sack him and try someone else? Give any manager at least 3 full seasons.

He won't buy that much. He will bring almost no one. He will get rid of Mario, will put Adebayor in shape, like he did last year and so on.

Don't get me wrong if we go that way then I'll back him 100%. The team is definitely lacking width, pace and creativity. Fuck it, I'm arguing with myself constantly, just get him in.

[hyper]

Let's fast forward 12 months till Mourinho has spent £100 million and we've not won the league and the football isn't bombastic. Do we sack him and try someone else?

This. Why is it always about whoever isn't playing or managing us? If Mourinho did join, and then failed, what the fuck would we do then...

[Ted Hughes]

The people complaining that the Mancini out camp are over reacting are missing the point. This isn't about one performance shocking though it was. It's about a season that's been collapsing since the New Year. My guess is that Mancini's indulgence in Balotelli is losing him the dressing room. It's not a happy camp and we're playing like it. He can't blame Brian Marwood for Balotelli. It was his call and he couldn't bring himself to admit it was the wrong one. Obviously he has no faith in Dzeko but he should have gambled on Johnson and Tevez. I would have accepted even a 2 or 3 nil defeat caused by being overstretched going for a win. Today we surrendered pure and simple. One of the worst performances by a City side in a match of this importance I've ever seen.

Of course if Khaldoun can't get a top notch manager we'll have to soldier on with Mancini but I have zero faith we'll kick on under him either in Europe or at home.

You can invent loads of reasons for this & that but unless you know it's true it's just speculation.

I think the players have underperformed recently & some did today but even so, as you say, 2 or 3 nil because we're going apeshit to win it is fair enough.

I really have lost a lot of faith in Mancini today. I thought we'd finished with this shit last season.

[ayrshireblue]

Why wasnt silva on the squad again?

Because he's injured

[Moses]

We had the title, but the clown placed all his faith in a lunatic and deserves the sack for that.
How can he be trusted as a manager going forward?

[Grob]

Let's fast forward 12 months till Mourinho has spent £100 million and we've not won the league and the football isn't bombastic. Do we sack him and try someone else?

This. Why is it always about whoever isn't playing or managing us? If Mourinho did join, and then failed, what the fuck would we do then...

Accept that Man City dominating world football is just not meant to be!

[Ted Hughes]

If Bob has said now in an interview that Balotelli will probably be sold, why the fuck has he been starting him every game ?

[Biamp]

If Bob has said now in an interview that Balotelli will probably be sold, why the fuck has he been starting him every game ?

I guess he really believes in him, and doesnt mind losing his job; as long as Balotellis playing part!!! I still think he will get good eventually but god knows when.

[Grob]

The most worrying thing for me is how much some of the have underperformed, and its going back months and months in some cases.

Balo is obviously massivly underperforming. But Dzeko, Sami, Milner, Johnson, Silva, even Aguero, are just not consistantly playing anywhere near they're best.

The above has got to be down to the management.

Today we surrendered possession from the first whistle and let Arsenel have the ball and total control of the game. Surely that cant have been the plan? You could see Arsenel growing in confidence. Aren't we chasing the title? Shouldnt we have been at them. Why so passive?

We were unlucky with Yaya's injury but in truth, Pizarro came on, looked to get on the ball again and tried to get us going. His positive runs and passes seemed to inspire some of them. Problem is, he runs out of steam after 20 mins and then becomes a passanger.

Enoughs been said about Balo but he should have been off at HT, latest.

Second half, Barry totally ran out of legs and became a passanger, but Nasri is unreliable defensivly so he had to come off to change it around. But to play Kolorov in midfield!?!?! What?!?!

Tevez came on looking a month away from fitness again, yet Dzeko, who can be atrocious but can score, stayed seated. Mind you, I cant think of a dangerous ball that we put into the box today and I wasnt expecting Zabs or Clichy to do so either as neither of them can so prob best he stayed sitting.

I can only assume bringing on Kolorov was in the hope he would score a free kick.

Just another day of strange strange management. And its getting stranger.

We are getting worse

[carl_feedthegoat]

The most worrying thing for me is how much some of the have underperformed, and its going back months and months in some cases.

Balo is obviously massivly underperforming. But Dzeko, Sami, Milner, Johnson, Silva, even Aguero, are just not consistantly playing anywhere near they're best.

The above has got to be down to the management.

Today we surrendered possession from the first whistle and let Arsenel have the ball and total control of the game. Surely that cant have been the plan? You could see Arsenel growing in confidence. Aren't we chasing the title? Shouldnt we have been at them. Why so passive?

We were unlucky with Yaya's injury but in truth, Pizarro came on, looked to get on the ball again and tried to get us going. His positive runs and passes seemed to inspire some of them. Problem is, he runs out of steam after 20 mins and then becomes a passanger.

Enoughs been said about Balo but he should have been off at HT, latest.

Second half, Barry totally ran out of legs and became a passanger, but Nasri is unreliable defensivly so he had to come off to change it around. But to play Kolorov in midfield!?!?! What?!?!

Tevez came on looking a month away from fitness again, yet Dzeko, who can be atrocious but can score, stayed seated. Mind you, I cant think of a dangerous ball that we put into the box today and I wasnt expecting Zabs or Clichy to do so either as neither of them can so prob best he stayed sitting.

I can only assume bringing on Kolorov was in the hope he would score a free kick.

Just another day of strange strange management. And its getting stranger.

We are getting worse

We are getting worse....Mancini has alrerady proved himself inept in Europe..he has proved that with Inter and us....yet lesser managers here in the prem have eaten him for breakfast in the Tactics department.
For me that says it all.

[Ted Hughes]

I was expecting Arsenal to come out firing today so I wasn't surprised, and we were nicely positioned to mug them on the break (as we were about to do when Yaya was assaulted).

I think by about ten mins into the second half we were ideally placed to go for a shit or bust attempt at getting back in the title race. Mancini didn't have the balls to do it & much as i like him as a bloke, I'm not sure I can ever fully trust him now.