A few losses and now the media think he will sacked?
Although the same people also have been saying City are in crisis and Mancini is likely to be sacked.
Now we are top of the league and inching closer to top form they have started on the next person who is having a dip.
I still think Hughes will go and I hope QPR get rid asap as the longer he is there the closer they are to relegation.
You're top because Chelsea have only picked up 2 points in the last 4 games, which is poor form, and one of the reasons people were talking about Mancini being fired was their poor form in the champs league, which hasn't improved and is vital for a top team winning league titles to also show quality in the champs league, financially, status wise and not least when they've spent more than anyone else.
City also haven't played anyone decent except Spurs yet, and AVB dealt with them for you, dropped their best striker for an out of form idiot, worked to your strengths and to their weaknesses.
City have yet to be tested in the league and they've yet to look good, beating Villa 5-0 isn't a good result, less than 3-0 would have been a bad result, they've been completely awful this year.
As for RDM, he himself knows he's at risk of being fired, European failure is bad for top teams, and very very bad for a team that is in a financial hell hole. Their numbers for last season are, somewhat bogus and optimistic, but include huge extra money from a champs league run, and win, without that they'll be back in the red, on top of another huge spending season.
The reasons a team spending 50mil in wages and aiming for 16th fire a manager aren't the same as those spending 150mil + and expecting the income from a european semi final.
If Mancini fails in Europe, again, even with a top squad and top players... then why would you or anyone else expect that to change in the future. ULtimately if he isn't the man that can bring City doubles, or even a treble, if he can't bring any European success, no matter how much he spends, surely you'd agree he isn't the man for the job? A team spending 100mil is expected to win titles, a team spending 200mil and half a bill in transfers is expected to win MORE titles, there are managers who can do that, Mancini looks increasingly like a manager who can't.
RDM as I said above is a tough one, some expected instant success at City, I didn't, some will expect continued success at Chelsea based off last season, but in reality Chelsea were a completely different side last year and they do need time to rebuild and change their style of football.... the question remains that RDM might not be capable of producing the quality football required to win titles competing with Barca/Real/Bayern on a level playing field.... without a striker to speak of I'm not sure anyone else could do better.
If he got say Falcao for Torres in Jan, and failed to do well from Jan till the end of the season, its less about the results and more about how competitive they were in the big games as a sign of where the team is going.
THis is Mancini's problem, in Europe its not about losing, its about Dortmund being unlucky to walk away without 3-4 more goals, about being completely and utterly outplayed for long spells, and about Mancini's tactical choices in game to turn them, failing spectacularly badly. City don't look close and a bit of luck from winning the champs league, they look poor and in need of all the luck in the world just to get out of the group stages, and Mancini has always looked like that in Europe.
