To keep winning, you need to foster an environment where the vision is bigger than any individual in the team. If you let one or two individuals with their larger than life personalities get away with behaviour that contradicts the team's values and vision, the disruption to the team will cost you achieving the objective.
Roberto Mancini tolerated Carlos Tevez being ill-disciplined as a player and captain, and when the player eventually went too far by refusing to get on the field when asked to go on as a substitute, Mancini said that Carlos Tevez is finished at Manchester City and would never play for him again if his team was to improve. He went back on that word, and Carlos Tevez was back less than six months later. He was on the pitch yesterday when Mario Balotelli was given his marching orders, also for ill disciplined behaviour.
Balotelli has been very controversial himself, from failed trick during a game, resulting in what was the main purpose of scoring goals being compromised, to off the field incidents that recently included a high speed car crash.
Now tired of Balotelli's behaviour, Mancini has made comments that he will be selling the Italian "in the summer". Too little too late as this lack of #leadership on his part could have cost him not only the #EPL title aspirations, it might be enough to get him fired.
What did the rest of the team feel about how Mancini always protected and trusted Balotelli in spite of the amounts of times Balotelli proved he could not be trusted with the responsibility of acting in the best interest of the team? How did the team feel when Tevez after his theatrics was allowed back in the team? How is anyone to trust that Mancini would really sell his brown-eyed boy, Balotelli, given he has already proved that he does not keep his word?
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