That's the thing, him getting 'stuck in' with the daft tackles was a product of the fact he was otherwise unable to assert himself on games. He'd frequently get physically dominated to the point of embarrassment in CM.
Got Villareal to within inches of a champions league final and Malaga to within seconds of a semi final
It's City who can't do Champions League footy, like. Rolling over sides in the league with mercenary players every week probably isn't the best preparation for facing Europe's most prestigious teams.
Their squad is pretty poor for the money they've spent
They've got lots of quality players and lots of pretty mediocre ones. For what they've spent players like James Milner should've been off years ago.
Got Villareal to within inches of a champions league final and Malaga to within seconds of a semi final
It's City who can't do Champions League footy, like. Rolling over sides in the league with mercenary players every week probably isn't the best preparation for facing Europe's most prestigious teams.
My only real annoyance with Carr is that despite being a 'fan', he's complicit in finding players for the purpose of resale value who aren't particularly suitable for the team. I also think if he truly 'has Ashley's ear' a more concentrated effort to stress the need for a proper manager and squad of players would be justified.
Funny he's never spoken a bad word about either Pardew or Carver, then. Not to mention the fact he's mentioned enjoying his new position. Now that his pace has more or less gone there's absolutely nothing to warrant him getting PL games in midfield or up front.
I'm not remotely angry, I just don't like him. I think he typifies better than anyone else the deterioration in the fabric of top-end English football in the past 15 years or so. All money and pragmatism. No class or passionate idealism.
He's just a bloke who used to scrub windows for a living pretending to be his hero Jose Mourinho, man. How else can such a failure as a football manager achieve that other than feigning gargantuan self-confidence at every opportunity?