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bawlmer
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Registered: Apr 2006
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In my opinion Mancini just lost the team. You could see this in the way they were playing the last few months of the season and culminated in the loss to Wigan in the FA Cup final.
Its easy for a team to turn on the manager when the manager is constantly calling them out in the media and embarassing them. He did this with a few players and it was supposed to be a motivational tactic that backfired. Klinsmann did the same thing with Clint Dempsey for the national team and so far, fingers crossed, it seems to be working. That wasnt the case with Mancini.
A manager also cant say that he sometimes wants to punch one of his players in the face, which Mancini did about Samir Nasri, and a manager cant get in a physical confrontation with a player, which Mancini also did with Mario Balotelli.
On top of all of this he takes arguably the best box to box midfielder in the world, YaYa Toure, and plays him in a defensive midfield role instead of the attacking role that he has thrived in and that has made him one of the best players in the world.
On top of top of that only one of his summer acquisitions last year worked out. Everybody else he brought in didnt help the team at all, and probably he didnt give them a chance to. One of those signings, Jack Rodwell, scored 2 goals last weekend in his first substantial playing time of the year. Thats millions and millions of dollars wasted.
I am happy to see him go. His ego got in the way and he tried to make himself bigger than the team when all he really needed to do was site back and watch his all star team produce without him holding them back.
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