Football Banter

It's true about the signings he made, just awful apart from natasic who has done well. Sinclair was bought as a bench warmer but do they really need that? They need to use all their players but Mancini don't trust some of them like kolo toure who could have played yesterday but bizarrely Garcia was playing centre back

(10-02-2013 09:46 )dan g 27 Wrote:  

(10-02-2013 00:28 )Shan_afc_90 Wrote:  

(09-02-2013 13:45 )munch1917 Wrote:  

(09-02-2013 12:59 )mitchell Wrote:  I'd love to see Roberto Martinez given a chance at a club who are in or around the top 4, I thinks he's gonna be a very good manager over the coming years. I wanted him at Liverpool instead of Rodgers.
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I've said for a while that I can see Martinez as a good shout for the England job some day, but he needs to move somewhere other than Wigan to get any chance.
No disrepect to Wigan, they are a decent club living within their means and doing the best they can with that, but there just isn't the money available to invest to take the team beyond a relegation battle every year. Without Martinez, I doubt they'd even be in the premiership still.

As for the Chelsea job (IF that should become a possibility, we all know what paper talk can be like), I'm not sure that would be the right move. I still see a big team rebuilding job there over the next few seasons, but will any manager be given the time to complete such a mission, seems unlikely.
Anyhow, rumour the other day was that Chelsea were targetting the Juventus manager Conte (who is allegedly now in the frame at Real Madrid as well).

Chelsea will probably target klopp as he is the next best thing to pep, wish we get klopp though if Wenger suprisingly decides to quit this summer

He doesn't want to leave Dortmund or Bundesliga.

Well there's not much to consider if u think about it, he won't bring back mourinho, that Malaga coach or frank de boeur should be given a chance but that ain't gonna happen

Any manager who goes to chelsea will be stupid in my opinion, the club is run like a circus, managers get no respect from Abramovic, he might aswell be the manager himself because he seems to think he knows better than everybody else who's been there.

I hope klopp doesn't go there, although i know he's said he is more than happy at Dortmund, they might not have as much money but they are run properly how a club should be.

paying out on the 10th of feb, WOW! paddy power already paid out on man utd winning the league like betfred hav dun twice before! after betfred paid out early, man utd went on to not win the title each time costing betfred a fortune

How can people blame Mancini?? There was 100's of millions on that pitch yesterday and none of them performed. In january man city should've signed a cb, lb, cam and a striker. And got rid of lescott, barry/garcia

They can't just get rid of players, they are all on massive wages, garcia has only just gone to city, he would cost loads, nobody will pay that much in january either, end of the day mancini is the manager so it all reflects on him, he obviously can't put his authority down on big named players for example, tevez, ballotelli walked all over him, tactics in the CL were all wrong, he has to take responcibilty

No doubt the players have let him down. One that springs to mind instantly is that little fraggle Nasri. Silva and Aguero also haven't hit top form at all this year.

But still, some of Mancini's choices, in terms of tactics and personnel, have been bizarre to say the least. I think the pressure has got to him and it's effected how he thinks.

Here are my predictions for this weeks Champions League matches.

Celtic 1-0 Juventus.
Valencia 2-1 PSG.

Real Madrid 2-1 Man United.
Shakhtar Donetsk 2-2 Borussia Dortmund.

A real smash and grab at Anfield tonight. Liverpool dominated the majority of the game, but end up losing 0-2 to West Brom.

Also an interesting statistic about Liverpool this season. They have yet after 14 times this season to beat a team in the top 10 of the league. They have won 0, drawn 7 and lost 7 of those games.

CL Preds:

Celtic 1-1 juventus
Valencia 1-2 psg
Real Madrid 3-1 man utd
Shakhter 2-1 dortmund