City fans are facing a situation of stresses and change. Currently we are dealing with possibly letting go of what we know and have known.. if you like what City was. However fans are eternal, at least the hardcore are and it is they who essentially sustain a club over time.. you cant quite say they are the club but you all know what i mean. So it is no surprise in a way that the revolution that is going on at City is going to throw up not only core differences of opinion expressed in so many ways, but also core differences in held values. and my point is that this is not just between different people it is also within each of us.
None of us want to see the Club lose what we cherish and hold dear and yet we all want the ambition that is on offer.. and we want it bad.
I suppose what this says is that we are in a dilemna.. How much do we have to change to achieve? In what way do we have to change? What do we want to keep and hold at all costs.. anything?
We have ultimately to put our faith in the people making the decisions.. some of which will make us question ourselves fo sho. We may not like everything that happens in the name of success, but there is probably no question that in something as competitive as football ruthlessness is a necessity to achieve the top. But ruthlessness can come in many forms shapes and sizes.. eg. a team on top of its game having a lot of fun controlling the ball in a match can be more ruthless in their play than anything associated with just hard work by value of creative play.
My only concern at the moment is that the Club could have handled the situation with players making the 25, staying or moving on, a lot better than they have, i dont see a reason why some players could not have been handled better knowing, it appears, that they were probably not in the plans for the season. It is maybe a small point but there are echoes of the way Dunny was treated and personally i dont see that professional ruthlessness has anything to do with people management or relationships. If anyone at the club is reading this i would simply say that you need to take care of the way you do things.. all things have a knock on effect and can be very slow burning. There is a pattern that seems to be emerging in the way we deal with personnel we no longer see value in, dont underestimate the way other people both see and read that.. as well as how long they remember it. I assume that Cookie & Co have done all their Core Values malarky on a good old away day some time ago, it wouldn't take a mystic brain surgeon to work out that City have the community and people as one of their traditional organisational values.. dont fucxl it up by just adhering to that in your marketing and public face only. Not treating people with respect can infect a culture and is very difficult to irradicate.
Gripe over.
Mancini is in charge and it is his decisions that we have to have faith in, it is all looking good and we are ready (as much as we can be ) for blast off. So i for one am drawing a line over my annoyance described above as we are going to get enough sh*t thrown at us this season without throwing it at each other and giving the forces that want to see us fail any credit.
So stuff the press, stuff the rags and stuff spurs
Balotelli to start on Sat, let them have the full force!
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