he's 20. he's childish and immature. and hot headed. but he's 20. 4 years younger than Dzeko. and scoring. when he matures you'll appreciate having him.

Doesn't matter if he's 13 or 37. His job on the pitch is to score and NOT bring down the team's morale. You'd think that the latter would actually be the simplest part. City has tons of players who can just as well fill his role by scoring. Regardless, scoring doesn't give anyone the right to act like a childish fool especially when it brings everyone else down. Maybe we will appreciate having him when he does mature. As for right now, many City fans straight up DON'T appreciate having him because he represents the club so poorly despite the fact that he may score on occasion - which, ironically, is often attributed to the help he's received from his teammates. The dude needs a major life intervention. Perhaps transferring him elsewhere so soon would get the point across.

Come on now Speak for yourself-Give the GIVE THE GUY A BREAK! It's understandable if it's coming from a non-City supporter; nevertheless, it is sad now that it's coming from a City fan. First of all, his attitude has greatly improved since his arrival & it continuously will. His ability/skills on the pitch are just simply outstanding. I doubt that either of you even watched this game because his attitude was fairly positive in this match.

BadTripRich, very well said!

Nobody coach? and what is mancini exactly?...Avram grant is a nobody coach too but when mourinho built a team for him before he left, chelsea went to the champions league final because there team was formed thanks to about £200million on players...same with mancini...mancini aint a good coach if that was alex ferguson and a player like balotelli had a bitch fit he wouldn't play for them again...beckham and ronaldo thought they were bigger than man u they left and we're still top.

Maybe mark hughes did flip a bit but thats just when high testosterone is built up when another "man" takes you for a dickhead.

look up mancinis record

Poor comment AdnanBosnia. First of all the whole 'Fergie doesn't take bad attitude from his players' cliche is rubbish. Remember when Ryan Giggs was young and banging in the goals for United? He was a playboy then and had a really bad attitude but Fergie carried on playing him whilst he helped Giggs mature into a real professional. He put up with Ronaldo when he first went to the club even though he had a bad attitude and offered little to the team. Even when he was the best player in the world he had an awful attitude. Ferguson didn't sell either of these players 7 months after they arrived.

Secondly, did you really just compare Mancini to Avram Grant? Don't get me wrong he did a great job at Chelsea but what Mourinho did for Grant, Mancini did for Mourinho. Much of Mancini's Inter squad were still part of the team that won the Champions League. Although Hughes was the one that bought Tevez, Kompany and De Jong, most of his other signings are the weak links in this season's team.

I sort of respect that point. Especially if prioritizing Dzeko results in getting Balotelli completely off the pitch. Dzeko would be a great target man especially if his polish holds up. Tevez would be a great roving supporting forward or attacking midfielder even, due to his substantial work rate. Tevez is also willing and able to set his teammates up quite well and often. I think he's perhaps too well rounded to play the isolated lone forward who spends so much time off the ball and kind of waiting. Dzeko is also taller and more methodical or patient as a target. Tevez is also kind of a chaser which I like, but perhaps not ideal for a target man, especially when you factor in his size.

He doesn't need his polish, he's Bosnian ;P

Adam Johnson is injured and has been for a while.

Agreed about the defence. Toure only plays well with Kompany, Lescott is unreliable, Boateng hasn't lived up to expectations and defending is not the strongest aspect of Kolarov's game.

Barry brings consistency to the midfield; he offloads the ball to the more creative players in the same way that Cambiasso does for Inter. Yaya is undeniably a gifted player but he hasn't shown a good enough attitude to be a player that Mancini builds the midfield around. That's my opinion anyway.

i think that city is the hardest team to decide a starting 11 like seriously WHERE DO YOU BEGIN...besides releasing Lescott lol

Very true...

Mark Hughes was pissed because when they lost at craven cottage 4-1 he was still a man and shook mancinis hand even with defeat at home where as mancini drew at home 1-1 and hughes stuck his hand out first to shake it and looked him in the eye...but mancini turned away and just stuck his fingertips out like a pussy...i dont know where your from but thats not manly that some bitch s**t

@ AdnanBosnia,

make sure you pay close attention to the video. he most certainly does not hold out his hand like a gentleman for a respectful handshake. he held out a pity shake and so Mancini did the same. but he reacted like a bitch... probably because on his teams best day and ManCity's worst, he still couldn't win.

they are both guilty of poor handshakes, but Mark Hughes reacted.

PAUSE THE VIDEO @ EXACTLY 11:05.. THAT'S A HORRIBLE HANDSHAKE ON BOTH THEIR PARTS.

And DELLA is right, if it were Balotelli (or Rooney or any temperamental player) we wouldn't hear the end of it.

dzeko and ballotelli both played

@BadTripRich,

Yes Both Balotelli and Dzeko started. Mancini used three strikers first half, and when he realised it did not work well without support from midfield (Silva was absent and Berry played crap) he put Patrcik Viera to replace Dzeko not crappy bad energy childish Balotelli. That is the reason I said Mancini prefered Balotelli over Dzeko.

Balotelli takes the whole team down with his temperamental attitude. We will see what happen in the end of this season, I really have a bad feeling when Balotelli play. I seems the team are much happier and played as a team when he was injured.

I felt bad because Hughes gets out of his seat like he's about to have a friendly chat with Carlos. He looked so disappointed as Tevez moved on to shake everyone else's hand.

united legend...

Nice job in the Carling Cu... oh...

Remind me when City got knocked out of that competition. I don't remember

September 22nd 2-1 to West Brom. And, before you disrespect the Baggies, 3 days later: Arsenal 2-3 West Brom.

Man City - Arsenal 0:3!
let the score do the talking!

I seem to remember the most recent, and therefore more important, match between City and Arsenal finishing 0-0. City didn't play for over 85 minutes with 10 men in that game as well...