ant london wrote:Serious question for you Georgian Genius
What is your appraisal of how Mancini currently has us playing
What do you think are the positives
And the negatives and....
How do you predict that our season will end?
I think he is very very cautious with us, based on the fact that Champions League football is so vital to us. I think he would rather win scrappy slow games than play pretty fast flowing attacking football and lose a couple, but only this season.
I used to watch Inter Milan when he was in charged because they are my favourite non english team and i have been to see them a couple of times over the last decade so i have a bit of a soft spot for them and whenever i watched them i never saw them play boring football, they were an exciting pretty team to watch and he too was a creative flair player who played beautiful football.
It is because of the above that i don't think this is the kind of football we will be seeing under him if he is to stay for a while, i think if we were to get in the champions league he would release the shackles on his side and we would then see the team play this fast tempo game we all love to see and with the players we have i know it will be good to watch, we have seen potentially this season how good we can be.
Could we play fast flowing up tempo football with this side and get in the champions league? Without a doubt but that's his decision and if we get champions league football next year does anyone really care how we did it this season? Next season we should care but this season? Nah, lets get passed that hurdle first.
The positives, for one i like the players he has bought. Silva is different class, Yaya no matter what anyone says is a top player, Balotelli is unreal when he wants to be, Boateng has looked fantastic at Centre half even if he hasn't shown that form that often, Milner is a player every team in this league would love to have, the only one i have doubts about is Kolarov who at the minute looks a poor buy but as always i will give him time, next season is the best time to judge him properly and secondly, all top sides are built from the back and we look brilliant at the back, 2nd best defence in the league? Impressive that and more so when you take into account most of them are Hughes's boys who looked so clueless when he was in charge not to mention we could of had David Luiz if the board had not acted so slow and lost him to Chelsea.
The negatives, like i said above he is very cautious but in my mind that is temporary.
As for the rest of the season, i think we will finish 3rd, the FA Cup is a lottery, if we beat United i think we will win that which would mean this season we would of qualified for the champions league and won our first trophy in 35 years which would be fan fucking tastic. If we don't finish in the top four then i would have to have a long hard think if he should go or not and at the moment in my mind he probably would have to go.