Blakefish80
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Bobby is right to be angry. We are way better than we are playing. I am lucky enough to know somebody at the club who grants me access to training sessions. About once a month although i haven't been able to get there so far in 2011. The criticism that City have no team spirit is bollocks. Every training session is a mixture of great fun and grueling physical regimes.
The key things Mancini seems to focus on is posession, awareness and movement so he is rightfully angry when you play teams like Birmingham who (no disrespect intended) we should beat 9 times out of 10 but end up running out of ideas when plan A isn't working. Plan A being keep the ball and knock it around in a crisp pretty fasion get it up to Silva who will weave his magic and play in Tevez who will score.
Another thing Mancini is big on is getting the most out of his FB's. Kolarov and Boateng spend most of their time whiping in crosses and doing endurance training as Mancini always planned for them to be the wide option in a 4-4-2 diamond formation. Sinced we bought Dzeko Bobby has played that formation but our FB's haven't been doing the job they are asked and Dzeko seems to roam around helping ou the midfield so when Kolarov does drill in one of his great crosses there is nobody there.
All in all it is annoying and frustrating that one game we look amazing then in the next we run out of ideas. We need to have more options. Balotelli and Johnson gave us them but their injuries have come at a bad time. I think we wil still comfortably finish in the top 4 and to be fair the title was never really on. Just a dream this year.
One thing i will remind you all however is we may have a great squad but getting rid of Hughes meant re building a team yet again. Mancini now has his players in place and we are starting from square one again. If we are this dangerous at square one imagine how good we will be in 2 or 3 seasons time when this squad knows each others games like clockwork.
3 years into a 10 year plan to make City into a MASSIVE (one for the United fans there ) club and we are laying 3rd in the league with top 4 in our sights when at this stage all Sheikh Mansour wanted was for us to be an established top 6 team. We are WAY ahead of schedule, People need to remember that.
The key things Mancini seems to focus on is posession, awareness and movement so he is rightfully angry when you play teams like Birmingham who (no disrespect intended) we should beat 9 times out of 10 but end up running out of ideas when plan A isn't working. Plan A being keep the ball and knock it around in a crisp pretty fasion get it up to Silva who will weave his magic and play in Tevez who will score.
Another thing Mancini is big on is getting the most out of his FB's. Kolarov and Boateng spend most of their time whiping in crosses and doing endurance training as Mancini always planned for them to be the wide option in a 4-4-2 diamond formation. Sinced we bought Dzeko Bobby has played that formation but our FB's haven't been doing the job they are asked and Dzeko seems to roam around helping ou the midfield so when Kolarov does drill in one of his great crosses there is nobody there.
All in all it is annoying and frustrating that one game we look amazing then in the next we run out of ideas. We need to have more options. Balotelli and Johnson gave us them but their injuries have come at a bad time. I think we wil still comfortably finish in the top 4 and to be fair the title was never really on. Just a dream this year.
One thing i will remind you all however is we may have a great squad but getting rid of Hughes meant re building a team yet again. Mancini now has his players in place and we are starting from square one again. If we are this dangerous at square one imagine how good we will be in 2 or 3 seasons time when this squad knows each others games like clockwork.
3 years into a 10 year plan to make City into a MASSIVE (one for the United fans there ) club and we are laying 3rd in the league with top 4 in our sights when at this stage all Sheikh Mansour wanted was for us to be an established top 6 team. We are WAY ahead of schedule, People need to remember that.