It's quite interesting how City have tightened the purse strings on Mancini. It's almost as if they want to upset the manager, the squad, and lose the league.
I know it's good that they have, but unfortunately the damage has been done by them throwing money around like it was nobody's business over the last few years, clubs will want high fees for players.
They haven't done any damage, people have been paying 30mil for players since the late 90's, Utd have done it since the early 00's, the rest of Europe has gone well beyond 30mil for a player. Aguero at £30mil, Yaya at £24mil, those are basically cheap transfers, the only insane prices are for English players and that started long before City started spending, and Utd helped make that worse more than any other team in the league. Despite things like 80mil for Ronaldo, Dembele cost Fulham next to nothing, Tiote/Cabaye/Ba/Cisse were ridiculously cheap. Paying absurd fee's for the few has NEVER changed being able to find a deal. Bad managers like O'neill massively overpaying for average players has nothing at all to do with increasing fee's, but being a terrible manager. He could have said, you won't take 5mil, screw you, and gone and found a whole host of other strikers for sub 10mil who would be better, he chose to overpay massively for someone, he wasn't forced into it at all.
As for tightening the purse strings, they haven't. He has a squad, he has to live with the squad he's bought, if he can't sell a player, he can't buy. That is how football works, at some stage you can't have an infinite number of players and simply keep paying millions to guys who you can't even put on the squad. Mancini is throwing his toys out the pram because he's too stupid to realise this.
Real, basically the silliest spending team in history, sold a bunch of their TOP players, not just the unwanted rubbish, to fund more buying. They got rid of Robinho, VDV, Sneijder, Huntelaar, Robben and several others before they could buy Ronaldo, Kaka, Ozil, etc, etc. Mancini has sold what, 2 players, one he barely used and one he replaced long ago already. He bought Dzeko and shipped out Adebayor on loan, getting rid of Adebayor who was already replaced doesn't mean he can buy someone else.
I can't stand managers who think spending should continue with zero regard to waste, Redknapp, Mourinho, Mancini. City's owners are wasting a lot of cash and overpaying, but there is still a huge difference between giving Milner 5+mil a year when he actually players, and giving another player 5+mil a year and Mancini won't even be allowed to play him due to squad numbers.... but Mancini wants to buy that new player before the guy he's replacing has gone.
As with several managers, he doesn't want the inconvenience of all the poor buys he's made, nor the trouble selling them before getting the replacements. He's of the opinion that if he spent 100mil last year, he should be allowed to spend 100mil this year. I honestly can't stand managers with that attitude.
Despite Dzeko scoring crucial goals all season, coming on in the final game and scoring a crucial goal that helped lead to the league title... he's decided he wants rid of him and wanted RVP instead.... well boo hoo.
Nice pay day for him I guess... would hate to be Rob Green right now though! And well in general haha!