From Evening News...

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/manchester_city/s/1049371_comment_is_sven_worth_the_aggro

Spot on.

In my opinion, the voice of reason and realism.

Jim

More wank from the halfwit Bailey.
  It's all about an owner with a three year plan deciding to sack the 
manager because  the club didn't reach year two's target at the end of 
the first year, after he was probably swanning around boasting about how 
good HIS team is.
I said it before, he's greedy if he thinks the squad inherited from 
Pearce could be transformed with one summer's rushed purchases. Okay i 
can hear you saying about Bianchi and Caicedo, but all managers have 
transfer "skeletons in the closet".
He says that Elano was played out of position so often. Eh? What team's 
he been watching this season? Ireland and Vassell were played out of 
position. Does he mean when Elano filled in at right-back? He's making 
it up, he works for the MUEN, what do you expect.
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"I first diagnosed symptomless coma
  three years ago, and since then the number
  of cases has been steadily increasing."

I know that Bailey has a 'closet rag' reputation, but I actually thought 
this was a balanced article. He points out both the good sides and the bad 
sides of the Sven year.

Your point about sacking Sven for not reaching his year 2 targets is made 
up. Nobody knows why Fwank wants to sack him, although the rumour that keeps 
popping up is that Fwank wants to dabble in player purchases and team 
selection. On this point, it is pretty self-evident that Fwank is well out 
of order and Sven is absolutely correct in refusing to allow interference.

As regards Sven's purchases, his success rate is average, when perhaps we 
could have expected better than average. Yes, he only had 4 weeks to 
prepare, but we were lead to believe that he'd spent his post-England days 
building up his little black book. And if Bianchi really is on £60k per 
week, then that is just plain mad. Not just because his age and promising 
but inconsistent Serie A form didn't warrant it, but also because it would 
inevitably fuel higher wage demands from other players.

And you're right to point out that Ireland and Vassell were played out of 
position /as well as/ Elano. But doesn't this just reinforce Bailey's point? 
And the reason that Ireland and Vassell were played out of position is that, 
despite Sven's MANY purchases, not a single right winger was purchased, 
leaving the team without one.

I still rate Sven and have not forgotten some of the fabulous football we 
have seen this season and of course the convincing victory over the rags at 
the swamp. But I think the 8-1 has just tipped me out of the Sven camp. I 
don't mind losing, but I do mind being fucking humiliated.

I'm beginning to think that our club is too soft, too nice. Nice players, 
nice fans, genuinely nice manager. I think perhaps we would get greater 
benefit from a hard-nosed bastard manager. A 'my way or the highway' and an 
'I HATE losing' type of manager. Being nice with these lazy tosser 
millionaires just doesn't seem to work.