by brite blu sky » Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:46 pm
Im starting to like Mancini more and more, but it is stuff that he is doing outside games that is giving me the sense he knows what he is doing with the team and players in general. There is still so much further to go though, it really is early days.
I think he still has some learning to do about the Prem, but also i think he hasn't had the chance to get what he wants going on up front, with all the strikers either injured or not good enough. I think too that there is still a big argument to be made that with so many players coming in they still have to find out how to play together. Yaya, Silva, Milner and AJ together with Tevez.
So as they get used to each other within Bobby's system i really feel that there is a lot more to come.
I also feel that Bob is improving players. Kolo, Vinnie, deJong, Micah to some extent. Slowly but surely for the players that have the right attitude i think he is going to make them even better... which is a mouthwatering prospect to say the least.
How long all this will take is anyone's guess, i dont expect us to be like a well oiled machine until sometime after xmas. There will though be key things that will help both Mancini and the team, one obvious one being a striker that oppositions have to keep their attention on and by doing so gives the forward players just that little extra bit of space. i still think that Ade is capable of doing that and he is just off the pace at present, like Tevez was in the first 3 or 4 games. Balotelli of course may just be that missing danger monger.. teams facing Tevez, Silva, Balotelli and AJ all on form have got to be wondering just what the fucl they can do to restrain them.
So like i say that is coming and when it does and the players get used to it I think it will be pretty safe to say we wont be lacking in attacking potential. When Mancini has that set up then i think we will start to see what kind of attacking play he wants us to have. Until that time im happy to see us grind out results or rely on the individual genius of some of the players. It wont be far off and i have a sense that the timing will be spot on in the end, with us getting stronger and stronger as the season goes on.
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