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Manchini - i built thí team
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Shame he couldn't manage it for ****
In fairness, he did win the league.
And in fairness should have carried on winning the league kicking on with confidence after winning it. They should have been almost unbeatable.
Instead he got beat by a United side on it's last legs. He should have won the title by 15 points not lost it at all.
Assembling an unlimited side is easy, getting them to consistently play well is another matter. I doubt many city fans miss him.
Indeed he did and that was only via goal difference on the last day. All that talent and they barely won the title then went onto lose the FA Cup final against a Wigan side that wasnt even worth a quarter of his City side.
LOL...his man management left a lot to be desired for in all honesty.
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I think there is something key to the top managers that Mancini doesn't have. The ability to continue to get the best out of players, as said that first year he should have done better and last year the team was, for the quality available, a joke.
Look at Aguero this year and his first year, vs last year. Redknapp is kind of the king of buying in form players, gaining success off said form but struggles to maintain that without consistent player buying. Aguero came to the club in great form, but after a year with Mancini his second year form was no where near. As managers can gain from a managers past work (or have to work past the bad things previous manager introduced) players also continue to reap the rewards(or the bad sides) of their previous training. Maybe Aguero was doing 2 hours of shooting practice every day before and under Mancini it was running laps and focusing on fitness. The sharpness from training every day doesn't disappear instantly, but a year later and a summer off, then coming back and still not doing the shooting practice you'd expect the player to get worse.
Mancini scraped a title with by a huge margin the best squad against a team with a "meh" squad. Aguero with last year's form in his first year and City wouldn't have won the title.
I think that Pellegrini is working against that, players needing to come back to form and getting stronger in attack, mentality stronger in attack away from home and the change is quite obvious, their attacking increasing dramatically, every striker at the club in brilliant form, Yaya back to form, the defence suffering from Kompany being injured, their away form has improved a lot.
Mancini also fails to point out all the crud he bought, the wasted what, hundreds of millions, the fact that the team suffered defensively without Kompany because with vast funds he wasted it on Rodwell, Lescott(I like him but City should be aiming WAY higher than him) and others meant the back up/rotation defenders aren't nearly as good.
Look at Aguero this year and his first year, vs last year. Redknapp is kind of the king of buying in form players, gaining success off said form but struggles to maintain that without consistent player buying. Aguero came to the club in great form, but after a year with Mancini his second year form was no where near. As managers can gain from a managers past work (or have to work past the bad things previous manager introduced) players also continue to reap the rewards(or the bad sides) of their previous training. Maybe Aguero was doing 2 hours of shooting practice every day before and under Mancini it was running laps and focusing on fitness. The sharpness from training every day doesn't disappear instantly, but a year later and a summer off, then coming back and still not doing the shooting practice you'd expect the player to get worse.
Mancini scraped a title with by a huge margin the best squad against a team with a "meh" squad. Aguero with last year's form in his first year and City wouldn't have won the title.
I think that Pellegrini is working against that, players needing to come back to form and getting stronger in attack, mentality stronger in attack away from home and the change is quite obvious, their attacking increasing dramatically, every striker at the club in brilliant form, Yaya back to form, the defence suffering from Kompany being injured, their away form has improved a lot.
Mancini also fails to point out all the crud he bought, the wasted what, hundreds of millions, the fact that the team suffered defensively without Kompany because with vast funds he wasted it on Rodwell, Lescott(I like him but City should be aiming WAY higher than him) and others meant the back up/rotation defenders aren't nearly as good.
True! Thats what an unlimited budget does to you lol.