zabbadabbado wrote:What do you think about the rumours off him going over Mancini head to the board and demanding to be selected for the FA Cup Final ahead off Pants ?Ted Hughes wrote:zabbadabbado wrote:I have to be honest I did not expect us to lose this game today.
However I am a bit more realistic than some and realize that this season was always going to be a bit off a transitional season, totally changing our style off football. I believe we might struggle to finish top 4 this season and top 6 might end up being a more realistic expectation with a Cup win.
You have to look at things objectively, the problems that got Mancini sacked did not just go away, they are still there. Today’s performance was a typical City away performance; we just turn up at lower clubs expecting to win, arrogance, lack of worth ethic through out the side. This performance today would have had Mancini ripping his hair out and ranting on the touch line. I honestly believe Pellegrini was shell shocked at the Jekyl and Hyde performance off the players, to us it was typical City away, to him after last week it was wtf ?.I think he learned a lot today, Ya Ya does not travel well, Joe Hart is better at strutting his stuff on a catwalk lately than he is in his 6 yard box., Playing a high pressing game is suicide when you have defenders who run as if running in treacle and would struggle to trap a bag of cement. I also don’t think Dzeko will suite the new system long term because off his inability to control the ball when it is passed to him. I can see us eventually reverting back to Mancini style to cover for our defensive deficiencies after we ship 3 – 4 goals for a few games. I just don’t think we have the technically gifted players for this style to work yet.
I hope Pellegrini gets the time to deal with the egos in our side and either makes them perform consistently or ship them out of the club. I appreciate it is going to take time, but I am worried time might not be on his side with the 2 Spaniards. I think the job is going to be much bigger than they and some off our fans appreciate.I am not as optimistic about this season as some are, bar Newcastle we have been shipping goals for fun in the last few matches,for me we now look terrible defensively with the Champions League looming.
David Platt said on Al Jazzera Sport today if Mancini had stayed Joe Hart was to be replaced this season., I thought that was very insightful .
Thank Christ he's gone then.
Relacing Hart at that point would have caused fucking chaos.
If he continues to drop bollocks this season, then the manager replaces him, people will accept it. But if he had gone at the start, the bad feeling would have been beyond estimation. Then imagine the new keeper makes a mistake ?
Hart kept us in the game twice first half, due to the Count's choice of picking Garcia, in spite of his criminally inept pre season showing.
Hart dropped one large bollock, Zabba two & the Count, a whole bunch of them.
I personally think he has got to big for his boots. And if I am being honest his sucking Wooneys dick at every opportunity leaves a bad taste in my mouth (excuse the pun), as well as his strutting his stuff on the cat walk I just leaves the impression he is a bit of a Champagne Charlie. I know he is not the brightest bulb in the box, and I think that is part off the problem.
He makes far too many unforced errors. It has got so bad you expect at least one mistake every game from a corner or set piece.
IF , that was true, then it would make him the cunt of the century, but IF it had been true, we would certainly have had it plastered accross the newspapers every day for the last six months & Mancini himself would have made sure everyone knew it, by various media methods.
More likely the business of Mancini dropping Panti caused bad feeling with the players, including Hart.
Hart does make too many errors but so do most others. How many keepers have been error free recently ?
Over confidence is better than being nervous.
And once again, Lescott Hart, Zabba; but what about Aguero ? How are any of their faults were worse than the fucking shite he produced ?