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Ex-Man City fullback Mills slates Pearce management

Submitted by tribalfootball.com on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 07:54

Former England fullback Danny Mills has slated his old Manchester City boss Stuart Pearce.

Mills has announced his retirement after being released by City at the end of last season.

And he told The Sun: "Stuart Pearce came in and was terrible. He only liked players he could control. He got rid of David James, Ben Thatcher, Claudio Reyna and tried to get rid of Joey Barton.

"From the outside it was 'Psycho - Stuart Pearce - don't mess with him'. But if you stood up and had a go, he didn't know how to respond. When he took his daughter's toy horse into the dugout, the lads thought 'Hang on a minute... '.

"Also, he didn't have a big enough personality to deal with big players - and still doesn't."

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Submitted by Ian (not verified) on Sun, 11/01/2009 - 00:19.

Spot on David. Danny Mills has earnt no right to criticise anyone. Ok he had some injury but how many games did he play in his 5? year contract.
He kept his head down and took the money way after it was clear no one wanted him.
Stuart Pearce did a job with the money available at the time (very little) and is an honest guy how dare Mills criticize after his record.

Submitted by Blue Mooning (not verified) on Sat, 10/31/2009 - 09:01.

Danny who?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 17:01.

I think that if you read the article its a pretty fair analysis of Keegan and Pearce. None of them were good managers and they never will be - for precisely the reasons that Mills suggests. Bang on in my view.

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