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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed Nov 07, 2012 9:50 pm  
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I know City fans rightly have a strong affection for Mancini, after he finally delivered a couple of trophies, but surely even they can see he is not a top class manager?

Yes, City are in a tough group, but they are looking close to a joke with their performances....All that money spent and yet it could easily be argued they are going backwards.

I said it a few weeks before they clinched the title and I'll repeat it again - A good manager would have a club with the backing that City has had, being a lot more dominant in their domestic league and competitive in the Champions League than Mancini presently has them.


He is struggling massively with continuity I think. He's got so many players with enormous egos that he struggles to keep them all happy. Up front he seems play a different combination every game, City are useless from a Fantasy Football perspective because their strikers play at random. I really don't see why he persists with Balotelli, he is far too inconsistent and his mental problems will always prevent him being a regular starter. Why not just play Aguero and Tevez every week? Why does Lescott play every other week as well? Why not just play him and Kompany every week? Why does Kolorov play one week and Clichy the next? Clichy is better, play him every week.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Nov 08, 2012 2:06 am  
I think the exceptionally strong CL group could save Mancini, and give him until at least the end of the season to keep his job if he puts up a good show in the PL.

But another group stage exit and a 3rd place league finish would do him in I think.

I think Citeh have had really tough CL groups. Last season was a hard one and this years is probably one of the strongest groups ever. But I still think Citeh haven't done enough in their two years in the competition. Last season I think they only beat the whipping boys and took a victory over the already qualified Bayern. This season they have rarely managed to rise above the 4th best side in the group. Considering the strength of the side, it really isn't enough.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:55 am  
The main threat to Mancini's job is if he fails to establish a working relationship with Soriano and Begiristain.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:10 pm  
Well-deserved and IMO long-overdue call-up to the England squad for Leon Osman. He's been criminally overlooked for England while putting in good perfomances for Everton, while players like Cleverly, Sterling and Particularly Shelvey have gotten a chance after 1 or 2 (or zero) good games for their clubs.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:13 pm  
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The main threat to Mancini's job is if he fails to establish a working relationship with Soriano and Begiristain.


Do City think by signing anybody who used to be involved with Barca will turn them INTO Barca? I don't think Mancini will be there come may.

Well done Celtic too. Champions League knock-out stages should be interesting
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:48 pm  
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I think Citeh have had really tough CL groups. Last season was a hard one and this years is probably one of the strongest groups ever.


But isn't that because having no relevant history and performing poorly in the Champions League itself leads to them having a low ranking, thus always being 3rd seed in a group behind two mega-teams?
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:07 pm  
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But isn't that because having no relevant history and performing poorly in the Champions League itself leads to them having a low ranking, thus always being 3rd seed in a group behind two mega-teams?


It does. Altough the problem hasnt just been the two mega-teams (one of which was Villareal last year), its also been the lower seeded teams, Napoli, Ajax, & Dortmond.

I'm not convinced its the quality of the opposition that's the problem. City have also performed poorly in the Europa League against clearly inferior teams. I wonder whether its something to do with the preparation. City rarely play well in mid week games in any competition. Its not a fitness issue, City are always very physically strong, both late in games and at the end of the season. But we always seem to be lethargic in mid week games.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:00 pm  
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But isn't that because having no relevant history and performing poorly in the Champions League itself leads to them having a low ranking, thus always being 3rd seed in a group behind two mega-teams?


We've had to go through the qualifying stages a couple of times to reach the CL group stages.

We've never seen anything approaching as hard as Citeh's CL group this season. I think our CL group this season is a strong group, and one of the hardest we've faced, but it's nothing compared to Citeh's group this year.

I thought Man Utd's exit at the group stages last season was an embarrassment. Citeh's exit was understandable.

I think us and United have two of the strongest CL records in the last decade. I think we'd both struggle with the group Citeh have this season.

I'm not a fan of Mancini. I think he's a decent manager, but not a great one. But I do have huge sympathy for him over the CL because the draws have been really hard and tripped him up before he really had a chance to show anything.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:09 pm  
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City have also performed poorly in the Europa League against clearly inferior teams.


With us, once our squad had the taste of the CL, there was no interest in what the UEFA Cup offered.

Personally I think the re-entry of CL teams into the EL will be scrapped soon. I just don't think it works.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Fri Nov 09, 2012 8:51 am  
If Citeh were Arsenal or Tottenham, then yeah, I'd understand them struggling in their group, but they aren't one of those clubs. They're the alleged best side from our league, they have one of the richest squads in the world and easily one of the biggest wage bills. For me, Citeh not getting through isn't understandable. Last season, maybe, as it was their first, but when you win the league and your league is considered the strongest/second strongest in the world, it isn't too much to ask for to get through a group with Dortmund, Ajax and Madrid IMO. Ajax aren't great, Citeh just performed poorly. Dortmund are a well coached side but they aren't stacked with the individual talent Citeh have. Citeh haven't played against vastly superior players during the groups, they've played against vastly superior coaches and Mancini has been shown up, just like he was with great regularity as Inter manager when he got them in Europe.
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