Mendy has always gotten away with it because of his injury.
Barring a lamentable first-half showing from us in the loss at Monaco and 20, rinse and repeat crosses in an opening day win at Arsenal, he has never shown anything that justified a £50m purchase.
His deficiencies are many and aren't because of injury or now fitness, it's because he can't defend and isn't particularly quick running back to his own goal.
Same goes for Garcia, runs in treacle and because he came from Barca, somehow gives him a stamp of quality.
Pep went down in my estimation when he picked him for the Lyon game.
Sadly, it is one of many poor errors of judgment during this year.
I genuinely don't see how having two fit strikers today would have made any difference to the result in terms of legislating for other players on the pitch who just aren't nowhere good enough for present Manchester City.