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Welcome to another day in sports today its all about the job of Manuel Pellegrini. It is now new fashion that we all have to accept in soccer a poor season with your club and you are fired as a manager. Manuel Pellegrini is believed to on the red card side of the city owners either he gets till the end of the season is what we are all looking forward to seeing. Sunday’s defeat at anfield means the coach has to secure his job by winning a trophy, well lets not look into the possibility of him doing that.

          Guardiola, Ancelotti or Simeone? Man City Weigh Up Their Options                       As Pellegrini Falters.

If Manuel Pellegrini get sacked, Pep Guardiola would be the main target, ahead of Carlo Ancelotti and Diego Simeone.

Of course, should the Catalan actually become available, it becomes much less of a debate. Guardiola is the closest thing to a guarantee of success in the managerial game along with Jose Mourinho, and is really the kind of coach that should warrant all clubs doing what Southampton did with Nigel Adkins. They should instantly trade up.

If they can get Guardiola, City should do it.

If they can’t, though, it does get a little bit more complicated.

This is the big dilemma for City, and to some extent clubs like Paris Saint-Germain too. They have the cash and the ambition to aim for a true peak coach, but the problem is that there aren’t that many around.

As it is, they have to go to the rung below, which is where managers like Pellegrini reside; and where there is nothing close to such guarantees.

It also makes every single appointment from that rung feel like a stop-gap - and this is especially relevant with Ancelotti - until they can get the type of grand long-term figure they really want.

That raises questions about how defining any failure should be for their managers, and what City actually want right now.

This is not to say that Pellegrini’s season has been acceptable. It might even be said that it ended on 1 March, as they lost 2-1 away to Liverpool to make the title look an even more distant prospect.

Their all-round defence of the trophy has been so abject, almost as bad as the last time in 2012-13 under Roberto Mancini.

That was so deeply compounded by the nature of the Champions League first-leg defeat to Barcelona, which felt like one of those nights when the truth about someone at that kind of level was finally and fully revealed.

It was not just that Barca so convincingly beat them, illustrating such a huge difference in standard in the first half especially. It was that Pellegrini so naively and clumsily played into the feet of the Catalans, with the kind of baffling formation that only added to so many questions about his tactical acumen.

It was damning and, given what the competition has come to represent for City's hierarchy, it might even be put forth as a reason to sack him on its own. But should it be?

Even with both of these failures there are caveats.

Pellegrini is actually among a pretty ample group to fail to retain the title, and to fail badly. It says much that only six managers have achieved that feat since the second world war, indicating how difficult a challenge it is.

The Barca result meanwhile seemed all the worst because City had been so desperate to make a stride, to prove their credentials in Europe. It is possible that in itself played into Pellegrini’s ludicrously open formation, and should not be forgotten that represented a regression from the previous season, when City set up much more cleverly against Barca until they were undone by a red card.

As such, it’s also possible the Champions League defeat was exaggerated by circumstance; that it doesn’t necessarily indicate Pellegrini is a lost cause in such vaunted ties.

This may just be a bad season, and even a master at retaining the title like Sir Alex Ferguson suffered those. Look at 2004-05.

Ultimately, has Pellegrini really become a worse manager than the man City appointed in summer 2013?

It was known then that his technical approach was good at facilitating entertaining attacking football from talented forwards, and that he had a respectable record in knock-outs, but that he lacked the truly competitive hard edge of a Mourinho or Simeone.

This is as true now as it was then, and he would still seem more suited to the club’s famous “holistic” attitude than an abrasive coach like the brilliant Simeone.

City might argue they need to freshen something up, but that is likely to happen with the pending overhaul of the first team, especially given its high average age.

Again, this is not to say that City should not sack Pellegrini. It is that there is cause for thought, that it should be hugely dependent on the type of replacement they can get.

There is a danger of the club endlessly repeating this scenario over and over, fating themselves to the same familiar situation over and over again.

manchester united news

Could Raphael Varane pushing for Manchester United switch.







With man utd reportedly in need of a world class center back more stories on who will fit the boot of vidic at united continue to trail.

the 21-year-old French central defender is struggling to get ahead of either Pepe or Sergio Ramos in the Real back-line and with Real Madrid viewing the player as ‘one for the future’ the player is keen to do something in the now. Real Madrid are unwilling to talk of selling the player so everyone else is doing it for them in the gossip columns and that is about all you read about the player.

Reports suggest that Real are already lining up his replacement in Aymeric Laporte who also happens to be another Manchester United target presumably as a second choice should Varane prove too stubborn a player to prize away from Los Blancos.

The athletic young defender is also of interest to Chelsea and Arsenal according to the mill and it is thought that £30million would be the minimum to persuade Real Madrid to sell.

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This is simply unbelievable no combiation of any two united strikers can give us 20 goals so far this has much to do with their recent form because they create chances and do not take them.

the manager Louis van Gaal says his expensively assembled squad has not challenged for the Premier League title this season because they do not have a prolific striker like their rivals.

Despite spending more than 150 million pounds ($231.48 million) in the close season, including a six-million pound season-long loan deal for Colombiastriker Radamel Falcao, United have looked uncharacteristically subdued when going forward during the campaign.

Van Gaal has come under scrutiny for implementing a number of different formations and playing forward Wayne Rooney in central midfield as United have struggled to keep pace in the title race, with his team in fourth.

The Dutchman claims the club are 13 points adrift of leaders Chelsea and eight behind local rivals Manchester City in second because his strike force have failed to match the scoring exploits of Diego Costa and Sergio Aguero, who have 17 league goals each for their respective teams. 

this means that the man utd manager has more than alot work to do in the summer. from his statement it is now clear that he will strengthen all his inpitch departments in this summer

southermpton right back Nathaniel set to asses  his options in summer.

Southampton are unwilling to sell the 23-year-old but their hand could be forced as his contract expires at the end of next season coupled with his unwillingness to sign a new deal at the club.

reports from the Mirror say Saints are desperate to keep him but Clyne is in no rush to commit his future to the South Coast club and wants to asses his options over the summer. chelsea are in need of home grown talents, this has lead jose mourinho to at clyne's way but man utd are clear favourites considering the form of chelsea's ivanovic compared to utd's rafeal or valencia.