Manchester City: Why Manuel Pellegrini was the right choice On the eve of 13th May, Manchester City

announced that they had parted ways with Roberto Mancini due to him not achieving any of the clubs stated targets. The club fell a long way short of backing up their title success from 2011-12, did not improve in the Champions League and disappointed in both of the domestic cups. Their only achievement last season was beating Chelsea in the Community Shield, but that is heavily disappointing for a club for a club that spends 54 million; to add to that, most of them have not come close to justifying those prices. There has also evidently been strained relationships in the dressing room; Mancini consistently applying double standards on Mario Balotelli, mismanaging Edin Dzeko and still granting Carlos Tevez a key role, which is morally wrong for so many reasons. It is evident that there were a lot of inequalities in the way he managed different players in his team. That in itself will never make you popular for the most foremost reasons, it is wrong. Manuel Pellegrini, on the other hand, is a very sophisticated, cultured and articulate human being. Before a Champions League match against Rangers, Pellegrini, manager of Villarreal, said: I expect to be kept very busy. They have not come here to defend. They have come to win the game. The team that makes fewest mistakes will win. This quote is concise, the message is proportionate to the objective of the match and foremost, it gives a very mild impression to everyone of what to expect. Roberto Mancini should be advised to read this before he rants about another team or another manager before the match and about his own team, the other team, the other manager and the referee after the match. Pellegrini is also a prototype of the typical, tactically adept coach in this day and age. His primary objective is always to attack, but he has also shown with Malaga that with goals hard to come by, his methods can enable the team to become very hard to break down. A primary example of this was in last seasons Champions League; over the two legs against Borussia Dortmund, Malaga only averaged 44% of possession, they never really harried Dortmund, but they kept at their chances, blocked a lot of shots and counter attacked efficiently and ruthlessly with the likes of Isco, Baptista and Joaquin in the final third. At some points during these two legs, I thought that Dortmund were understandably a bit overwhelmed by Malaga and were not quite sure how to deal with them. Eventually Malaga crumbled but Im sure that you understand what I mean. To clarify, Pellegrini will always set his team out to attack, as shown by him constantly using 4-2-2-2 formations at Villarreal, but he is very tactically adept and he will not send out a blind 4-4-2 like Roberto Mancini. More to the point, I think what separates Manuel Pellegrini from other candidates his ruthless enterprise, the attractive football that his team play, how universally liked he is and of course, his track record in the Champions League. Sheikh Mansour and Ferran Soriano most likely envisage him changing team ethics at Manchester City, lifting team sprits and changing the style of football that Manchester City play in order for the club to become a global attraction. He is the manager that is most likely to tick these boxes and to improve Manchester City.