by Cocacolajojo1 » Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:50 am
One question, to try to get away from the "who signed the what and who wanted the he and the him":
For whatever reason, the players we got the summer were not the players we initially wanted but they are the players we got. Given the outcome of the transfer window, has a, the team and then b, Mancini, performed as expected, below expectations or above expectations. And no, this has nothing to do with what you had expected at the beginning of the season. What could we expect from the team, given the outcome of the summer transfer window and then the winter transfer window.
For me, the answers on both are as expected. With no new real competition for places there was bound to be complacency in the team. I think it was Neville (sorry) who said that from now on, there were going to be a couple of players who were full so to speak, who'd lost their spark, regardless if they know it or not. Also, Mancini has performed on an expected level, not really rising to the challenge but not doing worse (so far) than could be expected.
What do you think?
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