Pellers got off to a great start with us, we smashed our goalscoring record for a season beating the medias favorites(dippers) on that mark too... he improved the team when he came in, getting us playing good attacking football and he was able to have that influence IMO because he was a new manager. At some point they stopped doing it IMO, he lost their respect and lost the dressing room it seems to me, once that happened he should have dropped players for attitude alone if need be, isolate them.
The only time I remember him dropping any big name was Joe Hart when he had a shaky spell, maybe that's when all the problems started but for whatever reason it's obvious to me now the fitness and effort dropped from the players... that's been one of the biggest changes and the difference it's made on it's own could have made a huge difference for Pellers IMO, these are paid professional adults who have to share a large portion of the blame for the drop in standards I'm not having it was all Pellers fault. As good a player as both Yaya and Nasri can be those two away from the team has been very good for the rest of the players, there's no more ponderous arrogant strolling around the pitch like they are that good all they have to do is show up, I wonder if Pellegrini would have had the same backing of those above to make decisions like that on such well paid high profile players as Pep does now.