Holden McGroin 4791 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Does anyone else not think Mancini is just a complete bellend anyway? Egotistical mug he is. I really believe Man City should be nearer to Chelsea and Man Utd than they are already. Awful tactics too, was painful watching a £600m team struggle against Greeks and Poles last season and to be fair in two games against us they were very fucking lucky, we deserved at least a draw in both games imo. True. 3 holding midfielders in 5 man midfield is a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Does anyone else not think Mancini is just a complete bellend anyway? Egotistical mug he is. I really believe Man City should be nearer to Chelsea and Man Utd than they are already. Awful tactics too, was painful watching a £600m team struggle against Greeks and Poles last season and to be fair in two games against us they were very fucking lucky, we deserved at least a draw in both games imo. True. 3 holding midfielders in 5 man midfield is a joke. Signing Vieira was a most bizarre thing to do imo. Been finished 3 or 4 years, and didn't need that type of player anyway. You can tell he'd be spunking in his eye at a 0-0 draw at the Camp Nou, rather than a 4-4 draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 As me and 2J were discussing a while ago, he's another one in the Dalglish mould, i.e. flair player but dour as fuck tactically as a manager. I think it reflects their personality to be honest, what tactics many of them employ. Keegan and Maradona charismatic, creative, interesting, both fuck defence just attack. Whereas two like the above you mention and say Mark Hughes and Gordon Strachan, all great players, but boring cunts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6431 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 I disliked Balotelli at first; then I heard of him sorting out the bullies for that kid; then I heard about some other funny shit; now I think he is a genius - that backheel is a comment on how shit these US pre-season tours are. He is apparently in a retreat convalescing in Hawaii. Prepearing himself for a chip from the half way line as a comment on post-industrial capitalism. He might be a bit of a knob but what sort of message does this send out, be a robot or be substituted? If it had gone in would he have been substituted or lauded? Surely flair should be encouraged not punished; it was only a friendly ffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Does anyone else not think Mancini is just a complete bellend anyway? Egotistical mug he is. I really believe Man City should be nearer to Chelsea and Man Utd than they are already. Awful tactics too, was painful watching a £600m team struggle against Greeks and Poles last season and to be fair in two games against us they were very fucking lucky, we deserved at least a draw in both games imo. True. 3 holding midfielders in 5 man midfield is a joke. In the end and out of desperation Yaya morphed himself into an AM!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolly Potter MD 0 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Mancini: In the management game, he's the Italian version of G.Souness. More of a sideline sideshow tbh, with the ego to match. Of course a top footballer in his hey-day as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Mancini: In the management game, he's the Italian version of G.Souness. More of a sideline sideshow tbh, with the ego to match. Of course a proper footballer in his hey-day as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Does anyone else not think Mancini is just a complete bellend anyway? Egotistical mug he is. I really believe Man City should be nearer to Chelsea and Man Utd than they are already. Awful tactics too, was painful watching a £600m team struggle against Greeks and Poles last season and to be fair in two games against us they were very fucking lucky, we deserved at least a draw in both games imo. They're not really a £600 million team though tbf. City have paid massively over the odds on numerous occasions because 1. every selling club knows they're loaded and 2. they're not a fashionable destination. Sunderland have to do the same on a smaller scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Mario Balotelli subbed after 30 minutes after going clean through then trying to backheel the finish - Angry exchanges with Mancini. http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/...alaxy-13772157/ Think he's quality like. another flawed genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Does anyone else not think Mancini is just a complete bellend anyway? Egotistical mug he is. I really believe Man City should be nearer to Chelsea and Man Utd than they are already. Awful tactics too, was painful watching a £600m team struggle against Greeks and Poles last season and to be fair in two games against us they were very fucking lucky, we deserved at least a draw in both games imo. They're not really a £600 million team though tbf. City have paid massively over the odds on numerous occasions because 1. every selling club knows they're loaded and 2. they're not a fashionable destination. Sunderland have to do the same on a smaller scale. They were a joy to watch in the 2nd half of the FA Cup semi final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Castell 0 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Mancini is only rated because he's a eyetie (is wop too racist?). He's no better than Hughes who can get his teams to play more positive football, sometimes. If the Arabs had any sense they'd replace Mancini with someone far better who gets teams to attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Mancini is only rated because he's a eyetie (is wop too racist?). He's no better than Hughes who can get his teams to play more positive football, sometimes. If the Arabs had any sense they'd replace Mancini with someone far better who gets teams to attack. Keegan would have done much better with the money, ironically, IMO. Under him, they would be expressing their talent, home and away - but that FA Cup win may be a breakthrough for Mancini though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TicTacWoe 0 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 I think people are a bit harsh on Mancini. Regardless of the money he's had he's done OK there and put together a decent Inter Milan team before. As for Tevez and Balotelli, they've always been unpredictable characters and they've both performed well on the pitch most of the time. The football they play is fairly dire but with Aguero added to the attack it might prove to be very effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 He's won the FA Cup. I'd take that like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 He's won the FA Cup. I'd take that like. KK, in his time here, probably had as much money to spend (in relative terms) as well. Don't get me wrong, I love Keegan and don't think Mancini is that great but he's delivered what is still a huge trophy in quite a short amount of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 He's won the FA Cup. I'd take that like. KK, in his time here, probably had as much money to spend (in relative terms) as well. Don't get me wrong, I love Keegan and don't think Mancini is that great but he's delivered what is still a huge trophy in quite a short amount of time. Basically what I was alluding to, without any disrespect to KK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenerased 0 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 He's won the FA Cup. I'd take that like. KK, in his time here, probably had as much money to spend (in relative terms) as well. Don't get me wrong, I love Keegan and don't think Mancini is that great but he's delivered what is still a huge trophy in quite a short amount of time. No he didn't. Keegan's Newcastle were amongst the top spenders, but that was it - amongst them. Teams like Liverpool were spunking 8 million on Collymore. Man City have literally no limits when it comes to their spending and can blow anyone out of the water at will. Keegan also made a decent profit on alot of his transfers, doubling or tripling in alot of cases. Ruel Fox in for 2.2m, out for 4.2m. Andy Cole in for 1.7m, out for 6.5m + Keith Gillespie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 (edited) He's won the FA Cup. I'd take that like. KK, in his time here, probably had as much money to spend (in relative terms) as well. Don't get me wrong, I love Keegan and don't think Mancini is that great but he's delivered what is still a huge trophy in quite a short amount of time. No he didn't. Keegan's Newcastle were amongst the top spenders, but that was it - amongst them. Teams like Liverpool were spunking 8 million on Collymore. Man City have literally no limits when it comes to their spending and can blow anyone out of the water at will. Keegan also made a decent profit on alot of his transfers, doubling or tripling in alot of cases. Ruel Fox in for 2.2m, out for 4.2m. Andy Cole in for 1.7m, out for 6.5m + Keith Gillespie. Well, KK had the money to break the world record with Shearer and Alan Oliver (I know, but he did have the inside track on the club at the time) reported they made a world record bid for a defender at the time for Maldini at the same time as when they signed Shearer. So I think you could say their relative spending power was comparable. It wasn't a dig at KK incidentally. NUFC probably had more pulling power at the time too. Edited July 29, 2011 by alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Maldini was absolutely fucking immense. Can't imagine him ever signing for us Didn't John Hall go and try to sign Del Piero? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26100 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Baggio wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 I think he was trying for two players and just sat in the waiting room Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Baggio wasn't it? I think we were linked with Del Piero after Shearer got injured pre-season at Goodison but I doubt it was anything more than paper talk. The attempt to sign Baggio was after the USA World Cup where he'd starred for Italy. The renowned Zen Buddhist supposedly wanted 50k a week which was outrageous at the time. Again, that's according to Alan Oliver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 With Maldini and Andy O'Brien as stalwarts of our defence we could have won the league man whatyyy ayyeeee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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