A selection of players thrown together in a haphazard manner?Hardly.The players Mancini bought needed to be bought and were better than the ones they replaced.There are signs an understanding is coming together and once it does we will win even more.

I agree a closing of ranks and a curb on players mouthing off will nilly needs to be adopted but we should stay focused and shut the critics up on the pitch.

Nevertheless Paul, you make some good points. City did have to spend against the clock before the fair play rules. Moreover, if Mancini could address a few issues to do with how the club deals with the media then that would help the team’s cause as their problems, some of which certainly do occur at many other clubs across the country, would not be aired publicly.

It goes on at every club and so does whining by players who can’t get a game.It is just highlighted at City because there is an agenda for us to be set up to fail……..”All that money spent and they are still rubbish!”………….You know the one!

We spent a lot of money in a short space of time for a couple of reasons.

Firstly we were starting at a base place of almost a whole squad of inferior players who had to be replaced.Just over ten years ago we were in the old third division,drastic action was needed.

Secondly the haste was because of old Platini and his mob attempting to stitch up the champions league against clubs doing what City did by the so called fair play rule where clubs only spend what they generate.A really fair one that when the top clubs are already the richest due to the continued champions league money and most have huge stadiums generating even more cash.But all that would be another post.

What i would do if i was Mancini and Gary Cook is ban all photographic devices and journalists from the training ground with immediate effect.Secondly i would ensure it is written in the players contract they don’t talk to the press without the club’s permission and then only after what they are about to say is vetted.Hey even i have this in my work contract so surely the players should too,they are after all employee’s are they not?

Thirdly i would get tougher on the idiots like woman beating dogger Collymore spouting slanderous bile,as he did against De Jong.The same applies to Ian Wright who is lucky he had a talent for football because with that pea brain and big mouth he would be lucky to get a job picking up litter!

Old Fergie wouldn’t put up with it and i wish the club wouldn’t either.

The outside world can keep sniping and whining it only makes us stronger,as it did in our dark days in the third tier.When we eventually achieve something it will only taste all the sweeter because of it.

The Tevez incident was nothing, simply a guy frustrated at having to come off knowing the job wasn’t done and he would also miss out next week through suspension. I love seeing that bit of fire in our captain who has led by example on the pitch all season.

No one gives a shit about training sessions at West Brom or Wolves, hence we never see photo galleries of Karl Henry’s wild training ground tackles (do they happen? who knows because there are no cameras there to find out).

City are in the media spotlight and it’s something we have to accept. What I won’t accept though is people buying into the propoganda being spouted to create issues that aren’t there.

Fourth spot, three points off the top. Come back to me when there is actually a crisis.

He should have had more than one goal and that, coupled with his fifth yellow of the season that will see him miss next week’s West Ham game (a fixture he loves), had him frustrated. If people had been actually watching the game and not just snippets from the anti-City media they would have seen Tevez laughing and joking with Vieira and Silva in the stands two minutes later.

Tevez is the sort of guy that wants to play every minute of every game and that was it.

The attempts to undermine Mancini and his role at the club are becoming laughable at this stage.

The fact is, argy bargy on the training ground between a hot-headed player and his team mate and YOUR CAPTAIN going off at his manager after been taken off in the 89th minute isn’t paper talk or rumours, its fact and no matter what club you were looking at, be it Bolton, Liverpool, whoever, it’s not out of the ordinary to regard this as fractional relationships within the camp.

This has nothing to do with jealously, and for me it’s childish to come to such a conclusion just because we’re talking about the big spenders here. Nobody is denying City’s deserved position in the top four right now, but it’s deluded to see players going at it, your captain having a tantrum on the field and declare it all rosy when it’s ‘probably’ happening at every other clhb around the country.