The manager of the bitters has been sacked. I find it a shame really as Man Shitty have won fuck all this season I thought he was doing a fine job.
Mancini Sacked
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Let's be honest, it must be sweeter getting to beat them when they're trying to win the title compared to when they were complete dogshit.
The reasons for sacking him were given as not meeting targets. I speculate those targets were :
(1) Retain the league title or failing that, as a bare minimum :
(2) Come 2nd, win a domestic cup AND improve on last season's Champions League performance by getting out of the group.
Arguably reasonable. In most fields where targets are set at all, improvement on previous performance is logical. However by the same logic, Ferguson should have been sacked in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004-6, 2010 and last year.
The fact remain thus : under Mancini City won their first pot in 30-odd years - Chopper, you're the man with the banner, please remind me - and their first league title in (I believe) 42 years. So the board have reviewed the performance only compared to last year and got rid of the best manager the football club have had for 50 years. Ridiculous. But then, it's par for the course when you consider that Spurs did the same with Redknapp, and Chelsea the same with Mourinho. Football's suddenly about the quick fix, and that really doesn't sit well with me. I hope United honour Moyes' six years, because I'd love at least one club to stand against this terrible trend and prove that long-term relationships mean more than running a football team like it's a business (rather than just an element to the business) with league placings and pots representing profit. I know there is revenue at stake when it comes to the table and trophies, but you don't budget with them. Leeds did that, and look and what happened to them.
So next year's Premier League will start with four out of the teams likely to make up the top six kicking off with new managers. Actually, in a dream scenario, Wigan upset the Woolwich tomorrow night, the board overreact by sacking Wenger, and it's five. God.... if all six teams become weaker under their new managers, Tottenham could win the title!!
Just kidding. The Spurs way is that if Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Everton all imploded and became tosswank overnight, we would capitalize by finishing 2nd to Fulham.
The reasons for sacking him were given as not meeting targets. I speculate those targets were :
(1) Retain the league title or failing that, as a bare minimum :
(2) Come 2nd, win a domestic cup AND improve on last season's Champions League performance by getting out of the group.
Arguably reasonable. In most fields where targets are set at all, improvement on previous performance is logical. However by the same logic, Ferguson should have been sacked in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004-6, 2010 and last year.
The fact remain thus : under Mancini City won their first pot in 30-odd years - Chopper, you're the man with the banner, please remind me - and their first league title in (I believe) 42 years. So the board have reviewed the performance only compared to last year and got rid of the best manager the football club have had for 50 years. Ridiculous. But then, it's par for the course when you consider that Spurs did the same with Redknapp, and Chelsea the same with Mourinho. Football's suddenly about the quick fix, and that really doesn't sit well with me. I hope United honour Moyes' six years, because I'd love at least one club to stand against this terrible trend and prove that long-term relationships mean more than running a football team like it's a business (rather than just an element to the business) with league placings and pots representing profit. I know there is revenue at stake when it comes to the table and trophies, but you don't budget with them. Leeds did that, and look and what happened to them.
So next year's Premier League will start with four out of the teams likely to make up the top six kicking off with new managers. Actually, in a dream scenario, Wigan upset the Woolwich tomorrow night, the board overreact by sacking Wenger, and it's five. God.... if all six teams become weaker under their new managers, Tottenham could win the title!!
Just kidding. The Spurs way is that if Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Everton all imploded and became tosswank overnight, we would capitalize by finishing 2nd to Fulham.
So many brainless City fans are arguing that Mancini ended their 35 year trophy drought, or however long it was. But they fail to realise he's spent something in the region of 300million compared with the shoe string budgets of City's previous managers. And they overlook his terrible record in Europe. I do however think it was a bad move to sack him this year; City may have had a real title shot next season with Moyes getting to grips with United. Now their manager will be in the same boat. We can only hope Chelsea don't get Mourinho back!
Seems a pretty pointless hope. Rumenigge has come out and said that he had a phone call from Lewandowski's agent saying he'd had Mourinho on the phone urging him to tell the player to reject Bayern because he wanted to take him to Chelsea.
Also the fact that Chelsea have been saying forever that they weren't offering Lampard a new deal and suddenly they have.... yeah, Jose made a call and said "actually, I want Frank around."
Yes, idiocy. I think they're fairly blinded by the Champions League performances, and feel that City should actually competing in it rather than getting made to look second class.
Personally I think it's hilarious that in two campaigns City have managed no wins, and Spurs managed to win 4 games in their sole bash at it.
