Originally, everyone in Manchester City was looking forward to Manchester City regaining the top spot in this round, because there were only 10 rounds left in the league!
Whoever was in the lead on the scoreboard would have the upper hand.
This was a fact that was clear at a glance.
But Manchester City lost.
The pressure after the game naturally gathered on Mancini.
The Daily Mail published a sharp and pungent review of the game.
The headline was: Mancini is Manchester City's biggest cancer!
"In this game against Swansea, it is hard to say whether Swansea defeated Manchester City or Mancini defeated himself.
At this critical juncture when the team was at a bottleneck, Mancini had no reason to freeze the team's best striker, Agüero. It was not until the 85th minute that he considered bringing on Adam Johnson to widen the width of the offense. It was not until the 87th minute that he thought of bringing on Dzeko to increase the height of the front field. Mancini had a team in desperate need of goals, but what did he do to his team?
"The players are tired. We are in a difficult situation now." Mancini excused himself after the defeat.
However, such an explanation sounded like a joke when applied to Manchester City, a team with a lot of players.
"How can such a deep bench be tired? How did Mancini rotate? " After the game, the BBC commentator, Mark Trinder, was merciless in his rebuttal to Mancini on Twitter, and it was clearly reasonable and convincing.
The moment Luke Moore's head pierced through the goal behind Hart, some Manchester City fans in the stands hugged their heads and cried bitterly. They really should start preparing in advance to face the fact that all four major leagues were empty with their team at the end of the season.
Perhaps Thursday's home game against Sporting Lisbon looked like an opportunity to continue Manchester City's road to the UEFA Europa League, but people who knew Mancini's European record would give up for Manchester City. In his ten years of coaching, Mancini's record in the European knockout stages was 11 wins, 7 draws, and 9 losses. His winning percentage was only 40%!
When Mancini was in charge of Inter Milan, Inter Milan had been defeated by Villarreal, Valencia, and other teams that were weaker than them in the Champions League knockout stages. They had also been humiliated by Liverpool in both home and away games. This was also the reason why he was fired by Moratti.
Mancini's Manchester City had been eliminated with a score of 1: 2 in the UEFA Europa League last season when they faced Kyiv Dynamo, who had long declined. Why else would it be said that Mancini would not be able to overcome the situation of a headwind and a European match?
Mancini should be thankful that Mansur, who was above him, was such a forgiving boss. It must be known that Chelsea, who was under the name of another tycoon, Abul, would be kicked out of the European competition if his results were even the slightest bit bad.
For a manager like Mancini, who had messed up the Premier League and European matches, who was like a malignant tumor in the team, not only had he not been fired 100 times, he had also been able to hold on to a lucrative job for so long. How could he repay Mansur's kindness?
Mancini's prestige in the team was already very questionable. At the end of last year, Tevez fought with him fiercely. At the beginning of this year, Adam Johnson quarreled with him on the bus. On the eve of Bridge's departure from the team, he had also wantonly criticized his dissatisfaction with Mancini to the media.
The Manchester City players all understood that it was a small matter if they could not win the championship for a while, but it was a big matter if they destroyed their own future. Under Mancini's management, Tevez, who was the Premier League's top scorer last season, was "treated like a dog!"
Adebayor and Bellamy, who were originally the fulcrum of Manchester City's offense, were unable to find their own positions in Manchester City. Fortunately, the two of them were now like fish in water in their respective teams. Adebayor even scored a "double-double" of more than 10 goals and assists!
Paraguay's "Batty" Santa Cruz was still unable to show his ability. In the end, he could only return to his old club, Blackburn Rovers, to look for opportunities. If the Brazilian national footballer could not find the feeling at all, he would lose the prestige he had previously gained in Russia. Kolarov, who was previously favored by Mourinho, could only occasionally show his outstanding talent. He could only hope that Juventus or Barcelona, who were interested in him, would be interested in him to rescue him from Manchester City's misery. Dzeko, who had just found his form, was only lost because he had unintentionally contradicted Mancini in the away game against Manchester City in the Champions League group stage …
As for the several players mentioned above, some were signed under Mancini's management, and some were the works of the previous manager. However, one thing could not be denied was that these players had completely become "waste products" during Mancini's two years of coaching Manchester City. Among them, there was no lack of heavenly star players like Adebayor and Tevez!
The total value of these star players was close to 140 million pounds. Tevez was 25 million pounds, Adebayor was 25 million pounds, Bellamy was 14.5 million pounds, Santa Cruz was 18 million pounds, Kolarov was 16 million pounds, Jorge was 14 million pounds, and Dzeko was 27 million pounds!
A budget of 140 million pounds was a luxury for any club's manager. However, Mancini had so carelessly and completely squandered this money. Not only did this make us doubt his professional standards, but we also couldn't help but doubt his sense of responsibility and ethics as a professional football manager.
Liverpool's Comain and Manchester United's Ferguson were both targets that Mancini could only look up to in the dust. Liverpool had started to spend a lot of money, but they didn't spend it in vain. Including this season's three years of transfer signings, all of them had found their respective positions and roles in the team, contributing more or less to Liverpool's domination of Europe and England. Manchester United had tightened its budget, but under Ferguson, they had made the best use of their talents. Compared to Liverpool's and Manchester City's lineups, Manchester United's lineups were far inferior, but they were still able to compete for the championship in the league table. If Mancini had Comain's joy in controlling the team, or Ferguson's miraculous rejuvenation, Manchester City might have already entered the ranks of the top teams in Europe and become one of the few giants in Europe that could be counted on one's fingers!
Admittedly, Manchester City's boss was a billionaire, but with such a torturous manager, how much wealth could he have to torment?
Since taking over Manchester City in 2008, Mansour had already spent a huge sum of 1 billion pounds on the Blue Moon. However, in three and a half seasons, Manchester City had not won a single trophy other than an FA Cup title, and the team's performance in tough matches had repeatedly disappointed people.
Manchester City's lineups were enough to challenge for any trophy. They had won an FA Cup, but they had lost more important trophies. This kind of return on investment still made Manchester City look like a complete rubbish stock.
Mansour should be glad that he did not renew his contract with Mancini, which gave him ample leeway to choose a more reliable manager to lead Manchester City from the beginning.
"Will Mancini pack his bags and leave at the end of the season? That depends on whether Mourinho is in the mood to come to Manchester City to take over, "BBC commentator Sekal said on Twitter.
If Mansour wants to give an explanation to the crying fans in the stands, he'd better put away his kindness to Mancini and hand his team over to someone like Mourinho. "
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