Have to admit, this is the first time I have heard Mancini display the type of balls I want from any City manager.
I posted in a thread a fortnight ago that there were certain players (Tevez in the main) who were agitating and presenting the owners with something between a rock and hard place.
What a disgrace it was that Mancini was having to work within these conditions.
The likes of myself, DD and couple others were dismissed at the time as trying to overplay the situation.
Mancini's comments yesterday have borne out that if there were no issues, why comment at all.
I also warmed to Mancini's comments regarding how fulfilling it should be for both him and and any other player at this club, that success would mean a lot more here.
However, and this is the crux of the problem we have as a club. The owners, and we as fans, either have to accept that big reputations come with even bigger expectations and demands, or we go back to square one.
By that, the focus should move away from the big names we all dream of seeing in a blue shirt, and the focus being more on solid dependable, albeit, still at a very decent level of player.
A sort of step above Everton, I would try to equate.
Now that might be okay for a large cross section of City fans, and it may well yield the odd trophy, but if this 'project' is all about prestige and the making of serious cash is directly linked, then I can't see how it does not remain at conflict between board and pitch.
I have appreciated the cut of Mancini's gib today, but there is an unpalatable truth that top players are impatient, they are spoilt and they want everything now.
Does that fit in with out timeframe. You only have to see the hypocrisy of the type of plyers who will suddently become very interested is us if we do make fourth this season.
They are not coming to create history for us - but for themselves.
Footballers are like petulant kids, give them an inch, any sign of weakness, they will take a mile.
My great fear is that these next two games will be dicatated by agendas.
Which is why I want a strong character in charge, why I believe Mourinho would have been perfect fit.
But Mancini has bared his teeth, and if we somehow do make fourth, he will have achieved something every bit as demanding as his title wins at Inter.