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iirc he only won a single title by default in 04/05.

He did well with Inter in the League, dominated Italy for 4/5 seasons but was unable to do anything in Europe.
 
They were on about this on Soccer Saturday, Mancini said something about Balotelli being the best in the world in 2 years time and the comments were "You're not going to be there in 2 years time unless you win something"

I imagine that's where it has all come from.
 
In 2006–2007, Mancini guided Inter to a second successive league title as they amassed a record-breaking total of 97 points, which is an Italian football record and until the season 2009–10 was a European record, too.
Furthermore, Inter with Mancini as manager went on a record-breaking run of 17 consecutive victories in Serie A, starting on 25 September 2006 with a 4–1 home win over Livorno and ending on 28 February 2007 after a 1–1 draw at home to Udinese. The 5–2 away win at Catania on 25 February 2007 broke the original record of 15 matches held by both Bayern Munich and Real Madrid from the "Big 5" (the top flight leagues in England, Italy, Spain, France, and Germany). The run lasted for almost five months and is among the best in European league football, with just Benfica (29 wins), Celtic (25 wins) and PSV (22 wins) bettering it. Inter also won with 5 games to spare and ultimately by 23 points and only losing once in the league all season. Mancini became the third coach in Inter history to win back-to-back league titles after Alfredo Foni (1952–53 and 1953–54) and Helenio Herrera (1964–65 and 1965–66).

I think you huys are under-estimating him, he was at inter milan for 4 years, a job which doesnt take any prisoners. he also broke many records.
 
I can't see them winning the league imho.

You never know with cup's, I mean Pompy won the F.A. cup a few years ago :p
 
During a time that Juventus were relegated and had to rebuild their whole team, bar one or two players, and Milan were docked points and had a team full of pensioners. As far as I'm concerned, those were his titles to lose rather than his to win.
 
Biz.Kid09 said:
And it was a bit of a joke :/....as in utd fans always say the same things over and over eg you havent won anything in 34 years,your not gonna win anything etc
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I have a feeling that when you win the Carling Cup on penalties you're going to act like you've just won the Champions League and thats next.

:p
 
I reckon he'll be out before Christmas. Not just going on this last result, but he hasn't impressed me once since he's come in. They had an absolutely terrible pre-season, yesterday they made hardly any chances at all and he thinks that Ballotelli is going to come in and immediately change that? What planet is he living on, the owners aren't going to show him any leniency, he needs to get results and quickly, yesterday City barely put up a fight and if it wasn't for Hart they'd have been dead and buried in the first 30 minutes.
 
Hart was outstanding yesterday for City.

Agreed on him not impressing, he's shown nothing to me so far that warrants him being able to take Manchester City to the league title.

They looked stale, poor in defence and created nothing.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
milan with their team full of pensioners who had won the champions league?
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That's what happens in knock out tournaments, look at Liverpool in '05. Awful in the league, excellent in Europe.

The fact Milan finished a comfortable second behind Juventus in '06 with 88 points then finished 27 points behind that total in '07 and 24 points behind in '08 shows they weren't able to compete as they could in '06. Mancini won one title by default, another because he had absolutely no competition and struggled to win his third once Roma got their act together. If it wasn't for the match fixing scandal he wouldn't have a title to his name.
 
i dont think he's a poor manager,

his players arent exactly good enough to win anything.

world class: hart (extremely consistent last season, form has led through into this season) and tevez (this man is a machine, can score and create from anywhere but on his own he cant do it all), robhino (has shown what he can do on the world stage, has no confidence and lacks motivation outside the brazilian league)

potential world class: balotelli and adam johnson (need a little fine tuning but will get there)

good players: toure, adebayor, silva, boateng and bellamy


the rest are all average players: barry, lescott and co.


he has 3 world class players (1 of them who doesnt want to be in the squad - robhino) and one is a keeper. they need a world class creative midfielder (johnson and balotelli can hopefully cover this) and a world class defender, then they will have a strong core.

without a strong core, they have sub par side.

their strongest line up would be.

robhino - tevez - balotelli


silva - toure - johnson


kolorov - boateng - toure - richards

hart

bench: adebayor, bellamy, de jong, barry, viera, kompany, lescott and given

yaya toure would have to be a holding mid in this 4-3-3 formation, but as you can see it is too attacking minded and half of those players cant defend. they need much better full backs.
 
You cant judge us on one game...but then again because weve spent money everyone loves to attack us because we didnt win :/...and when we do start playing well we will get the usual "your only winning because you spent all this money" etc....
Psycho sunny how on earth is that our strongest team?
 
Biz.Kid09 said:
You cant judge us on one game...but then again because weve spent money everyone loves to attack us because we didnt win :/...and when we do start playing well we will get the usual "your only winning because you spent all this money" etc....
Psycho sunny how on earth is that our strongest team?
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all of those players are your best. who would you say is your strongest?
 
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