City boss Pellegrini looks on as his side get beaten by Barcelona at the Nou Camp

Manchester City were sent crashing out of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday night after suffering a one goal reversal against Barcelona at the Nou Camp and with that ended our 2014/2015 season. As I suggested in my last article for this site, the Champions League was the only thing we had to play for this season after a string of horrendous results in the Premier League left us with absolutely no chance in the world of retaining it. Coming to our European hopes, whatever chances we had of proceeding to the Quarter Finals were greatly reduced thanks to another disastrous performance in the first leg against the Catalans. As things stand right now, we have nine games left in the season and not a distinct target to aim for.

Ivan Rakitic scored the only goal of the game after an exquisite loft past Joe Hart

At this point of time, our season is all about perspective. Is the glass half empty or is it half full? The overwhelming opinion is that it is half empty, and why wouldn’t it be? The Manchester City that we have grown used to over the years are a group of winners. City have won the Premier League twice in the last three years along with an F.A. Cup and a League Cup. How can the fans of such a team be content with a second place or even lower finish in the League? How can the fans accept being knocked out of both the domestic cup competitions after only the second round? A Round of 16 exit from the UEFA Champions League may still be accepted especially if you consider the kind of opposition we had to face, but our poor performances in the other competitions are totally unacceptable. There is absolutely no way that I can consider this season to be anything close to a success.

Sergio Aguero wasted a great opportunity to restore parity to the game but saw his penalty saved by Marc-Andre Ter Stegen

Our coach, Manuel Pellegrini has been feeling the heat for a long time now but the recent run of poor results have turned up the flames so much so that the British media have gone a step further and claimed that his job may be on the line. This point has divided the opinion of the City fans as not everyone of us seems convinced that sacking the Chilean would be the best thing to do. In fact, most of my fellow Citizens would like to give the man some time to get back to winning ways. This season may have been a disaster, but what we cannot do is overlook the massive contribution this man made to us last year. A Premier League and League Cup double along with an F.A. Cup run are some of the things that he gave us to be proud about. One poor season is in my humble opinion, not reason enough for a man such as Manuel Pellegrini to get the sack, especially when you consider the things he has accomplished with us just the last season. Rash decisions are always harmful because the decision makers usually do not think too much about it before making them and right now we need to hope that our club’s big wigs don’t make a rash decision.