I've been saying this for months. Pelegrini is not the type of manager who can deliver instant results. It took him 2 seasons for Villarreal to shine under his command, an unacceptable time-frame when the money spent on transfer demanded instant results.
yep...i remember when he signed for real, we basically all agreed that he would need a lot of time before he could deliver silverware. none of us expected him to win something for real cause 1) there are too many new players and 2) he was brought in because he is supposed to be a wenger typ manager, who could form a team in time.
he's done a great job IMO so far, all things considered. cause as time went by, the team improved constantly. we saw beautifull football, lots of goals, a home record of 12 (i guess) victories etc. all that, followed by catching up on barca, changed the expactitions from he will need at least one season before the team can seriously aim for titles into he must win la liga or else.
i guess his problem is, that he was too good in the average games, while being way too bad in the big ones. he certainly made mistakes, like the ones beeb meantioned from others, but he's not been that bad like he's being made currently.
Negativity will remain hanging around Pellegrini , there is no turning back
U cannot lose games that matter and expect to stay , Manu (sadly i like him ) is not the man to lead this group , they need a much more powerful figure to guide them on the pitch .
punishing crap players is good but not good enough you need in game guidance which he failed to do several times
u can bet your left nut on this , Rafa is leading the polls though (Backed by Perez ) but Mourinho is catching up fast (backed by Valdano ) less than 2 % separate them
i don't think rafa is that much of a leader either. as far as leadership goes, it's mourinho or capello. both unfortunatly have that 1:0 minimalistic football kind of aura circeling around them.
i wonder how xabi alonso feels regarding the possibility of rafa taking over...good bye xabi??? make peace with rafa???
The conductor job is to correct the crap musician in rehearsals , if he allow the crap musician to keep playing the same way in the concert it's the conductor mistake not the musician
you seriously believe that the ability/quality/talant of the musician is not at all a factor to consider and that it's only down to the maestro??? cause that's they way you make it sound to me...like a great maestro can turn water into wine or else he's not a great maestro.
It's how u use the players Viva , the best times was the 4-2-3-1 when Marcel-Kaka-CR were behind Higuain that's the most balanced formation and most effective to the players he got .
he kept tinkering , started with 4-3-3 in pre-season switched to 4-2-2-2 than switched to 4-2-3-1 in the first classico and beyond it than switched to 4-3-3 till the classico .. he don't have the players for 4-3-3
in the 4-2-3-1 he has the best use of his team cause even Higuain can drop to the right winger position and play Benzema upfront (he did that couple of times ) ..
that one big mistake of pellegrini, not sticking with the formation that worked (4-2-3-1). however, i do believe it's also somewhat influenced by the injuries - kaká, VDV, benzema, momo - by the respective punishments - kaká, gago, lass - and the drop in form of some players - lass, gago. who do you play besides xabi, when you punish gago & lass, who also dropped form during the season and momo isn't the same ever since his injury, plus being injured again too. i think desperation caused the change of formation. together with the question who do you play on the left wing when marcelo is a liability.
thus the urgent need and desire to reinforce the midfield...names like fábregas, canales, david silva, javi martínez, ribéry, jesús navas came up regularly and would fit the sceme.
Ive just read in some article that the fans whistled Ronaldo towards the end of the match. I didn't notice it at all, does anyone know if it's true?
Yep it's true , our fans are not stupid and he was really bad
he really was crap...his game was over from the moment he injured/hurt his foot and started to limp. from that moment on, his game was similar to marcelos, running around like a headless chicken, making a lot of noise, a big fuss, but with nothing countable coming out of it.
sadly, he was often left alone too with little support from the midfield or higuain.
If you want stability you need to find a coach who add to the team first than give him time.
I was all for giving Manu his two years , i didn't mind losing the copa or the first classico , CL hurt a big time but still we said maybe it's the players but even now with the classico the output of Manu on the team is close to zero .
Now if you ask me what is our style with Pellegrini i can't answer you , cause it's not like he stuck with his formation and kept it . he changed his methods 3 times already in almost 8/9 month .
his original idea of 4-2-2-2 failed , he didn't keep the successful 4-2-3-1 after beating Depor with 4-3-3
he did gave Granero plenty of chances to play i'll give him that but what about the rest ? in so many games we were winning comfortably and he didn't give some of the youth on the bench some time .
He is a good manager but i was wrong to assume he could be a great manager with the right resources , we need a leader from the bench and Manuel was unable to lead several times .
u can always excuse losing to Barcelona due to the form /continuity / mentality .. but when u add Milano,Alco,Lyon .. nah
i agree with a lot, but you know what beats it for me??? the question wether or not another coach could satisfy the expectations and deliver silverware/glory.
i honestly don't see mourinho, rafa or ancelotti doing that trick. the only one i regard as being capable of doing that is capello - with the question about the beautifull football left open.
if it's capello, bring it on...but if it isn't, stick with pellegrini.
Who gives a shit about Madrid dude. Do we have to pity the Madridistas now?
People seem to like you (allthough virtually) because of your "input" but its hard to understand why you keep supporting that scum club.
They lack talent. They were ,again, acting like scum. They werent playing football. They keep shouting they gonna win it all,yet they dont even win a big match.
Big mouth and playing extremely dirty.
no offense, but that sound hypocritical coming from someone with dani alves in his team, who seems to be of the opinion he's an expert and has to comment on every single issue, plus bitching about real on every occasion. he's annoying ever since he moved to barca...don't know why, maybe he thinks he's the best thing that ever happened to barca.
it's not like barca players never comment on real in a negative manner.
Yep and no , it's all speculation atm
the 5 names are Rafa,Jose,Fabio,Felipao and Carlo
outside but strong bet as well is one of Blanc or Michael Laudrup .
I see Jose as our best bet though due to the state of the mental weakness
good points although i believe in several occasions (first classico is one of them ) both kaka & CR completed each other and played well .
there is a lot to do about guidance and a strong man to enforce his will on CR and Kaka
i see both fitting well the 4-2-3-1 with Kaka in the center and CR on either side of the wings but they do need a strong man to keep the tactic shape intact and that's something Pellegrini failed to do
he is so much like Del Bosque with his laid back and letting the players do their best and improvise hurting the squad in the process plus the difference is Del Bosque had players who played for 7-8 years before with few additions Manu has 5-6 new ones and u can't let them do what they want as each of them come from a different tactical school and manager
it definitly should be capello...what are the chances of him taking over again??? i mean from the club management point of view???
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