CC1 said:
"What if" You are guessing and trying your hardest to blame the manager. As said in my previous post I expect players who come to City to be able to put in the effort even if it is proven that they are not good enough to play for a top English Club but Dzeko doesn't put in one tenth of the effort applied by Aguero or Tevez. THAT is not Mancini's fault. He gets paid a fortune to run around yet he doesn't think he has to. He wants the ball on a plate so that he can just knock it in the net. In this league, you have to do a bit more than that - ask Adebayor
I didn't try and blame the manager, I suggested reasons why he 'might' be accountable for things, as opposed to you, who stated that he definitely wasn't responsible for certain things. Neither of us know the facts so I was attempting to open eyes to more possibilities.
I agree with you in some capitalist kind of way, but in reality, even though I am paid to do my job, if I go to work and my manager criticises my work but doesn't offer any direction to help me correct it, and continues to praise others over me, only giving me smaller roles then it could affect my attitude to him and possibly my job. He's only human.