lets all have a disco wrote:Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Douglas Higginbottom wrote:"This post isn't by the way about making excuses for him."
Sorry but that's exactly what it read like to me.
to put it the other way, any manager coming in at this stage would've faced the same difficulties. So it's not about Mancini as such. These are mostly Hughes players bought for system and tactics he planned to use. I don't think it's coincidence that we have one central attacking midfielder.
Hughes was looking for another attacking mid,Mancini had six weeks to find one.
He didnt.
Just a thought.
It's a good and valid thought (although I didn't know Hughes were looking for central attacking midfielder).
I'm actually bit confused now who does the deals in the club now. Reading all the recent stories about Jinky, I kind of get the idea Marwood is running the show in that department now. Which for me is hazardous set up. I can't even begin to explain how much I don't believe in director of football system. For better or for worse, manager should be in charge for who we sign. Or at very least make it bloody clear to supporters that our manager isn't really manager but head coach.