johnpb78 wrote:brite blu sky wrote:Douglas Higginbottom wrote:the_georgian_genius wrote:Bingo Lewis wrote:Does Mancini intend to keep playing this style of football when he has his own choice of players?
I want stability at the club, so I'm in favour of letting Bob carry this on, as long as he doesn't intend do do what I said above.
If he is promising attack football that is exciting to watch once he's had a summer window to get his own players then I'm willing to get behind him and look forward to seeing what he can do.
If this is how he feels footy should be played, and wants to buy more defenders, more defensive midfielders, and Luca Toni so we can carry on lumping to a big man, then I feel we should part company.
He signed Maicon and Ibrahimovich for Inter, not the kind of signings you make if you are defensive and play the style of football we are at the moment.
Mancini's hands are tied, these are Hughes' players, alot of them aren't good enough to play the style of football fans want to see.
You really shouldn't use that argument about these are Hughes players! Mancini has gone on record praising the quality of the squad. As for them not being good enough to produce the style we want to see , well they were doing that so i don't undrestand what you are trying to say. The problem before Mancini was letting silly goals in usually thru bad individual mistakes and not the style of football or ability to score goals.
agree with Doug here. Bob said the players were quality when he arrived, most people agree that our squad is top quality.
Except that he HAS said that he cannot understand why we had so few central midfielders. Seeing as this is the big area where we seem to be struggling, he has identified the very problem we are all up in arms about, so why he didnt sort it in the window.
It could all be part of the master plan; Mancini identifies target, Cook approaches target, target sits in hotel room throughout transfer deadline day only to find we somehow miss deadline, Cook appoints Mourinho or similar at end of season & he spends the money instead.