The furnishings of his office are quite good, even luxurious, and perhaps Manchester City wants to cover up the lack of trophies and championship atmosphere through this conscious luxury, because even now, Manchester City has not even won the second place in the Premier League, let alone the championship.

Behind the large window, the curtain looked out of the grey sky of the Manchester suburbs, while the training ground was surrounded by a row of dense trees, with no fence in sight, only a narrow road leading to the outside.

Compared with Manchester United's Carrington training base, although Manchester City's training base is also called Carrington, it is much more simple and has few venues, because it is close to remote areas, and Manchester City's youth training has not been particularly ideal, so the entire training base is used by the first team.

Two full-size pitches, together with the two-storey office building where Roberto Mancini now sits and another two-storey recovery area, make up the humble training ground.

Frankly speaking, if Manchester City was still at Maine Road before, they might be very satisfied with this training base that cost two million pounds to build, but for the Manchester City team, which is now rich and worth more than 10 million yuan if any player is singled out, this training base seems too small.

The club has come up with the idea of a south-east diagonal corner of the City Stadium, just south of the Ashton City Supercentre and along the entire stretch of Ashton Channel, which will be a first-class training base that is not lost to Tottenham Hotspur Theorebold and that City will have their own academy squad in the strict sense of the word.

Mansour has indeed been investing in the past few years since taking over Manchester City, and he has a clear plan for the future of the team, which is not only to build a Manchester City that is star-studded enough to compete with Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and other giants, but also to ensure that the team has the best youth team in Europe.

The club's ambitions are indeed very big, and they are also very supportive of Mancini's work, asking for money for money, asking for people, and last season the team was able to finally reach the Champions League qualification zone and win the FA Cup, Mancini's work has also been unanimously affirmed by Mansour and Mubarak and others, and I hope to continue this season.

With the addition of Nasri, Klich, Savage and others, plus the team has Yaya? Top stars such as Toure, Balotelli, Dzeko, Aguero, De Rossi, McConn, Manchester City's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and the depth of the bench is getting better and better, making Manchester City's results in the Premier League also rise.

There are even many people who have raised doubts last season, thinking that Mancini's performance in Manchester City is not outstanding, which is the result of the overall strength of the team, with such a squad configuration, if it is for Ye Qiu, Ferguson, Mourinho and other top coaches, they would have already won the championship, and even the Champions League is expected.

As long as your overall strength is not bad and you lose fewer points, it's hard to say whether you can win the championship, but the ranking is certainly not bad, and the real test of a team is still in those strong dialogues and the performance in Europe.

At this point, Mancini is a weakness!

In fact, neither Inter Milan nor Lazio, where Roberto Mancini really rose, had nothing to say about his coaching experience in Europe, and he was even unsatisfactory in many of the big talks.

If you say, once and a half, it is understandable, but all along, Mancini from Lazio to Inter Milan to Manchester City, he has never been convincing in this aspect, and has never been able to get rid of the role of bullying the weak and afraid of the hard.

Standing in front of the window of his office, Mancini looked at the gray weather outside, and he felt that the heating was on in the room, that London, or England, was starting to cool down again, and that damn winter was coming again.

To say that Manchester City started this season, it was indeed a good start, beating Swansea 4-0 at home and winning a full house, but the second round of Bolton Wanderers made Mancini questioned, because in the case of a 2-0 lead, Manchester City was quickly chased by Bolton to 3:2, and in the last half hour, Bolton launched a crazy counterattack against Manchester City.

But more importantly, Mancini's reaction, with all three of his substitutions clearly intent on strengthening the team's defence, even though he said in his post-game press conference that he didn't think about defending, in fact, Bolton played better in the last 30 minutes.

Therefore, when Mancini said that he had not thought about defending, a reporter on the spot shouted in a mocking and sarcastic tone, "If it is Tottenham Hotspur's Ye Qiu, he must replace Zabaleta with Modric, not Sabaleta for Modric!" ”

This sentence caused a burst of laughter at the entire press conference at that time, and it was obvious that in the eyes of this group of reporters, Mancini's substitution represented a kind of cowardice, a kind of weakness and incompetence.

But they never thought that they were away, Bolton Wanderers is not a weak team, in the 60th minute was chased by the opponent from 3:1 to 3:2, the opponent's morale soared, and our side is a little weak, in this situation to strengthen the defense, is it undoubtedly a very pragmatic attitude, is this also wrong?

Ye Qiu, Ye Qiu, Ye Qiu, Ye Qiu, you bastards know Ye Qiu all day long, that damn Chinese is right no matter what I do, everything I do is wrong, all conservative!

Thinking of this, Manich turned around again and looked at the newspaper on his desk, which was called Craig? Brown guys, they're almost going to take Tottenham Hotspur to the sky, what pop culture symbols, what innovations, what changes football closures, fuck me!

Sitting back in the office chair all of a sudden, Mancini still looked very angry, he didn't understand, why those fans, those reporters must be so harsh?

Mancini was already feeling the pressure when he was in charge of Inter Milan, but when he was in charge of Manchester City, he found it even more pressure, because when he was in charge of Inter Milan, Italy happened to be going through the phone gate, and Inter Milan were almost invincible in Serie A, winning with their eyes closed.

But today's Premier League is different, there are Ye Qiu, Ferguson, Wenger, Benitez and other top coaches in the world, as well as local coaches such as Redknapp, Ranieri, Boas or European veterans and young heroes, the competition is very fierce, and a careless person may lead to being swallowed by the opponent.

This kind of pressure, which is almost like a mountain, is torture for anyone.

Mancini even noticed that his hair had turned gray since he didn't know when.

Just as he was angry, there was a knock on the office door, and two of his right-hand men, David? Pratt and Brian? Kidd, neither of these men is a simple figure.

Which David? Pratt has had an illustrious playing career with Manchester United, Aston Villa, Juventus, Sampdoria, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest, and was a regular in Arsene Wenger's first Premier League title when he landed in the Premier League, and was once seen as the favourite to head coach the England national team.

David? Pratt and Roberto Mancini were teammates from the Sampdoria era, and after the latter arrived at Manchester City from Inter Milan, he brought David to Manchester City in 2010. Pratt invited him to help him manage the Manchester City team.

If David? If Pratt is Mancini's own man, then Brian? Kidd is Manchester City's own man, having played for Manchester United, Arsenal, Everton and Manchester City, but most famously he spent 12 years as assistant coach for Alex Ferguson, including David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and others who were promoted during his time as assistant to Ferguson.

He left Manchester United in 1998 and missed out on the Treble, the peak of Manchester United, so few fans will remember him, and after leaving Manchester United, he ushered in a glorious period when he was an assistant coach for Leeds United's O'Reilly, who was at the peak of Leeds United's Brian? When Kidd joined this team.

After several rounds, he joined Manchester City in 2009 and joined Mancini's coaching staff.

It's clear that Brian? Kidd is one of those assistant coaches who can't do it on his own, but at the same time has a lot of football ability and can help a manager get the job done.

The two right-hand men also have the added benefit that they are both Manchester natives and their own in the eyes of the fans.

"It's unfortunate to have met Tottenham Hotspur when it broke out!" David? Pratt is more familiar with Mancini, and as soon as he walks in, he complains, and whoever touches Tottenham Hotspur at this time obviously does not feel relaxed and will complain.

Of course, this kind of talk can only appear between the three of them, and it is impossible to spread it, otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"What are you going to do?" Brian? Kidd is like that, and someone needs to tell him what to do at a critical moment.

Perhaps this is also an important weakness and deficiency of his inability to coach alone.

"What do you think, David?" Mancini looked at David? Pratt.

The latter sat across from him, across a desk, and it was clear that he had a clear look of hesitation.

"To be honest, if we just attack, we can still fight with them, but if you add defensive ......"

David? Pratt's meaning is very clear, in the face of a team like Tottenham Hotspur, especially the Tottenham Hotspur team that has just slaughtered Manchester United 8-0 away, any team can only make a choice, either offensive or defensive, choose one of the two, it is impossible for any team to be able to play against this team when defending against Tottenham Hotspur's attack.

Of course, Tottenham Hotspur is not in good shape when it is another story, but now their guns are still smoking, whoever goes up will die!

Mancini looked at Brian again? Kidd, "What do you think, Brian? ”

Brian? Kidd smiled a little wryly, in the past Ferguson would never ask him what he thought, only tell him how to do it, but Mancini is obviously different, he prefers to discuss, "Maybe we should be braver!" ”

"That can't be!" David? Pratt shook his head vigorously, "If you play against Tottenham, it just hits Tottenham Hotspur's mind, Manchester United is the first to play against them, and as a result, they conceded four goals in 20 minutes, my God, 4 goals in 20 minutes, and it's Manchester United!" ”

To be honest, this game is too much of a deterrent for the entire Premier League, and even all the teams in Europe.

No matter how bad Manchester United is, no matter how weak it is, no matter how much it is affected by injuries, it is still Manchester United in the end, but it was scored four goals in 20 minutes by Tottenham Hotspur in its own home stadium, to be honest, this is something that is almost impossible for any team to do, who would not be afraid?

"That's right, it's too risky to play against the attack, but I'm worried that if we defend and counterattack, as soon as the rhythm and situation are controlled by Tottenham Hotspur, we will be passive all over the field, and it may be difficult to even counterattack after the worst!" Brian? Kidd also watched that game, and all he can say is that it was very shocking.

For ordinary fans, they may have the illusion that Manchester United are playing too badly, or that Manchester United players are in too bad shape, but for insiders, they know very well that it is not Manchester United who are too bad, but Tottenham Hotspur who are playing too well.

It is precisely Ye Qiu's set of tactics and personnel that stimulates the state of Tottenham Hotspur players and makes them burst out with that kind of impactful and rhythmic style of football, which makes anyone have to weigh their own pounds, if it is my team, can it be stopped?

In fact, the two assistants said it in front of them, but in fact they didn't say anything.

Attack, the risk is too great, and the defense is also very risky, so is it to attack or to defend?

The ball was actually kicked back at Mancini's feet and both assistant coaches looked up at Mancini and waited for him to make a decision, as the next few days of training would revolve around that.

Klich, Kolarov, Hangrande, Lescott, Zabaleta, McConn, Mika? Richards, Coloe? Toure, plus Gareth in midfield? Barry, Yaya? Toure, De Rossi and De Jong, it stands to reason that such a set of tactics is indeed no reason to say that their defense is bad.

Looking at the entire Premier League, who else dares to say that their squad is more luxurious than Manchester City's?

"When we all feel that it is very risky to play an attacking game away from home, do our opponents feel that way? Will they also speculate that we don't dare to play against each other away from home? ”

Mancini thought of the group of wall-grass media reporters, didn't they all want to boast about Ye Qiu as if they were gods? Didn't you say that Ye Qiu was very fond of attacking? Doesn't that mean I'm conservative? Then I'll take a risk to show you once!

What do you mean...... "David?" Pratt and Brian? Kidd was visibly surprised by Mancini's words.

This is not like Mancini's usual style, he is usually more cautious and cautious.

"yes, I mean, when everybody thinks we're going to be on the back burner away from home, what do you think would happen if we suddenly attacked away from home? And even if we can't attack, we can take the opportunity to disrupt the rhythm of Tottenham Hotspur, and then slowly look for opportunities to attack and strive for goals! ”

When he said this, Mancini also felt more confident the more he spoke, "You must know that Tottenham Hotspur's two wings are weak, and now the midfield is not Yaya? Toure, he is now under us, with De Rossi in a double midfield, while Tottenham Hotspur is a single midfielder, Andrea Pirlo! ”

Mancini knows Pirlo very well, when he was at Inter Milan, he had a lot of contact and games with Pirlo, and he knew very well that although this player has defensive ability and excellent defensive awareness, there must be a premise that there is a sweeping player like Gattuso in front of him to sort out and block the frontal impact.

In other words, Pirlo's defense is not a head-on confrontation, but more of a more ingenious way to complete without much confrontation, and as long as you find a way to break the ball away from the defense zone of Tottenham Hotspur's two central midfielders and directly hit Pirlo's area head-on, then Tottenham Hotspur's defense will be self-defeating.

I have to say that Mancini's analysis is indeed very tempting, David? Pratt and Brian? When Kidd heard this, he was obviously a little moved, and even a little excited, because there are such players in the Manchester City team, whether it is Van der Vaart or Nasri, or Aguero and Balotelli, who have the ability to attack directly against Pirlo.

"However, I always feel that it seems that it is not that simple!" Brian? Kidd was a little puzzled.

In the eyes of the world, Ye Qiu's tactical understanding ability has reached a level comparable to that of Ferguson, and Brian? Kidd is a tactical skill who has experienced Ferguson's peak moments, and for a manager of their type, if he dares to play the card of Pirlo's single midfielder, it is unlikely that Pirlo will be exposed.

Of course, Tottenham Hotspur's set of tactics has only been used twice, of which Everton's one is not obvious, and the one that can make people pay attention is the one that plays Manchester United, so there are still very few places that people can study and investigate, and it still looks very unfamiliar, whether it is a weakness or not, it is not clear for the time being.

After hearing this, Mancini smiled, "You are too careful, Brian, there is no perfect tactic in this world, and there will be no tactics without loopholes, and the thinness of the midfield brought by the single back is the biggest weakness of Tottenham Hotspur!" ”

Italy's head coach is outstanding in tactics, especially defensively, and Mancini is no slouch in this regard.

At least he has always had a strong confidence in his ability in this aspect. Manchester City have such players in the team, whether it is Van der Vaart or Nasri, or Aguero and Balotelli, who have the ability to attack directly against Pirlo.

"However, I always feel that it seems that it is not that simple!" Brian? Kidd was a little puzzled.

In the eyes of the world, Ye Qiu's tactical understanding ability has reached a level comparable to that of Ferguson, and Brian? Kidd is a tactical skill who has experienced Ferguson's peak moments, and for a manager of their type, if he dares to play the card of Pirlo's single midfielder, it is unlikely that Pirlo will be exposed.

Of course, Tottenham Hotspur's set of tactics has only been used twice, of which Everton's one is not obvious, and the one that can make people pay attention is the one that plays Manchester United, so there are still very few places that people can study and investigate, and it still looks very unfamiliar, whether it is a weakness or not, it is not clear for the time being.

After hearing this, Mancini smiled, "You are too careful, Brian, there is no perfect tactic in this world, and there will be no tactics without loopholes, and the thinness of the midfield brought by the single back is the biggest weakness of Tottenham Hotspur!" ”

Italy's head coach is outstanding in tactics, especially defensively, and Mancini is no slouch in this regard.

At least he has always had a strong confidence in his ability in this aspect.