Former West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini has broken silence on his sacking by telling Chilean newspaper La Tercera.
“Unfortunately, we had a major injury, from the goalkeeper [Lukasz Fabianski] of four months. And the performance of the second [Roberto] was not as expected, he had responsibility in several goals. The team was losing confidence, the results were denied and the owners decided to change.”
Pellegrini added: “In football, the first thing that one must understand is that you always have the responsibility. You can fall into those negative streaks. The players lose confidence and you, as a coach, must find the solution. You don’t always find it and sometimes the board don’t have patience.”
“It has happened to Mourinho, Pochettino, Emery … What happens is that it never happened to me.”
The 66-year-old added: “It [The sacking] hurt me. It is the first time in 20 years that I did not finish the season. In all clubs the season was over. At Real Madrid I did not finish my contract, but the season did. I hadn’t stopped in the middle of the season for 20 years”.
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I think that Pelle was very similar to Avram Grant – Grant almost won the Champions League after all. At least Rafa has shown that he can work at the bottom of the league where you need to grind out results. Pelle’s appointment show that Sullivan really is not very good at choosing managers. Now if we go down we are really in a mess as most players will leave – we might be like Stoke struggling to survive in teh Championship
Agree. Watching LVP beat us with their foot on the break says it all. Even with these grossly overpaid deadbeats we would struggle in Championship. Look at the Leeds v Wigan match. Both teams would beat us. Hard, physical footy. Fun to watch and fast.
Pellegrini was a luxury Sullivan thought would appease the undercurrent unrest of the supporters that never ever will be happy on leaving Upton park and never will I.M.H.O And of course himself for thinking he could make a silk purse out of a squad of players that were in terms a pigs ear ?? Expensive players are all Pellegrini dealt with in he’s previous position at Man City. Thus there lies the problem at first Pellegrini was given a free rein to sign who he could get 1st season Wheelchair being a big mistake. ? Then reality set in, with Sullivan? And the beginning of this season! On his transfer budget he was told to offload before taking on any new signings? The budget was slashed ence Roberto and Sanchez and not to mention doing due diligence on big money buys like Haller which in my opinion doesn’t suit the premiership and if rumour is true Fornals is going to cost Sullivan more money to play any more appearances ?? What I’m saying is Pellegrini was a luxury Sullivan could not finance or afford? he clipped his spending wings where as Moyes’s seems more his type of manager in his knowledge of how much the spending can go and how far to take it? And that in a nutshell is we all kinda know of what our owners are, they would like to think we are a big player in the premiership ? But in reality , someone like Moyes’s is who there looking for and to get what they can afford ??? And a footnote on people who thought we should have got Pochettino Spuds gave him a deal of so many millions to go, but he would have to forfeited it if he took another job in the premiership for a year ( what do think Man United are waiting for?)
Any manager who doesn’t realise that our midfield at the start of the season wasn’t good enough to control matches is an idiot.
Mark Noble should’ve been replaced as a priority. We have no athletisism or speed in the most vital area of the pitch and instead relied on him alongside Rice, and 4 or 5 lightweight, slow, number 10s ahead of them who wouldn’t track back.
Idiotic.
Or could it have been he built a team spending £150m and didn’t make a good signing.
Haller £45m, looks as good as Hugill playing in championship.
Anderson £42m, 1 goal and never tracked back or done a tackle in his life.
Wilshire £100k a week for someone who averaged 6 games a season over 5 years.
Sold 5 forwards brought in 1.
Keeps a defence who ship 2-3 goals a game.
Rewarded two left backs with new contracts who wouldn’t get in a championship team.
No right backs at the club who can run over 50 yards without collapsing.
Left the team without a keeper.
All for a reported £6m-£8m a year.
Will go down in history as the manager who spent millions building a championship team who have less pace than a non league team.
Oh and he thought it was the Goalkeeper.
Pellegrini was clueless – we’re now paying the price for his appalling recruitment.
The writing was on the wall – Fabianski being msn of the match nearly every week should have set the alarm bells ringing, you can’t have your ‘keeper being your best player !
Totally overworked.
Adios, Senor !! 👎
I have been around long enough to see many managers toppled by being so Blinkered that they become Oblivious to the Obvious. Pellegrini took that to another level and was your typical One Trick Pony Chequebook manager. He never had a Plan B or C and didn’t have a clue in setting up a team to be A. Hard to beat and B. Win. A good manager knows the CORE/SPINE of his team is crucially important and provides the basis for success in the Premiership. Simply put, he didn’t cut his cloth to suit, he pursued and brought poorly. Expensive weak mentality, injury prone players, which killed the budget, which wouldn’t go any further. Then he skimped on players in crucial positions instead of looking for the required Premiership quality. It’s not as if he hadn’t managed in the Premiership before and it was a new league to him. We should have left him in China.
In Short, he has been exposed as that chequebook manager, who is now feeling sorry for himself and is looking to blame the useless Roberto, who if he had exercised his managerial due diligence, he would’ve realised that Roberto simply wasn’t good enough.
Pellegrini had no long term plan, he wanted us to play Barca, Real Madrid, Man City football….. But with Poundland players. I don’t care to see Pellegrini Ever Again.
Leeds have Casilla, we have Roberto. They will come up, we will…
Stay up with some hard work and a bit of luck.
Good riddance Pelle.
Yet Roberto is the player about whom Pelligrini kept saying … I trust him a lot. The same was said about Jack Sprat, who is still injured. And what about Sanchez?
Yes Roberto, the clown was useless. But sorry, Mr Pelligrini … you are the reason for your own sacking.
Mr Moyes should learn and not make similar mistakes … one a couple which were done on sat against Brighton.
What he says is true. I tend to think that once the dressing room has lost confidence it’s over. A lot of the lost confidence was started from the keeper problems for sure.
Things were also not helped by signings being not quite right for the system that Pele wanted to employ. Although individually many are clearly talented players, they never would have worked to top potential.
With that in mind I can honestly say exactly the same thing about Moyes trying to shoehorn some players into a style that doesnt quite fit them. I think that hes just one major injury away from losing a already fragile dressing room.
But what tactics could get the best out of what we have?