Justified logic wrote:Our regressing league positions and players' attitude don't lie. Name one player who developed under Pellegrini or youth who was given a decent crack at a first team place. I wouldn't include Iheanacho in that as Pellegrini was constantly preferring Bony (ffs) to him until long, long, long after everyone was screaming for him to be played.
If you apply 'Justified logic' you might realise that pellegrini knew from day 1 he was keeping the seat warm for pep. So if he wanted to see out the 3 years he had to put something in the cabinet, that was undoubtedly his priority - why would it be anything else and he did that with 3 pots in his 3 seasons and was why so many of the kids weren't given a chance.
That said and using Iheanacho as your example, Kelechi himself has said it was pellegrini that gave him his chance when others were less keen to take him and he had nothing but praise for how he had been allowed to develop under pellegrini.