I'll go one by one and address the Ibra situation in greater detail.
Ronaldinho: Was without a doubt my favorite player growing up and was instrumental in Barca winning the CL in 2006 but what transpired in the 2 following campaigns was interesting to say the least, he was always known as a bit of a party animal but it never was a real issue because he would deliver on the pitch, well this had changed by the end of the 07-08 season when Frank Rijkaard was sacked after Barca went 2 campaigns without winning anything, finished 3rd in the league 10 points behind 2nd place Villarreal in the 07-08 season. Ronaldinho during this time many a time came to training hungover and would actually sleep at the club headquarters... A disruptive player who's disruptions were no longer worth putting up with because he was no longer "that good".
Deco: When Barca won the CL in 2006, Xavi and Iniesta were on the bench but by 2008 they had broke into the starting XI and were threatening to eclipse Deco, who like Ronaldinho was on the downward spiral and surely you can't blame Pep for backing Xavi and Iniesta over Deco given what these 2 went onto accomplish under Pep lol?
Eto'o: The only 1 of the trio that Pep also wanted to sell after he took over as manager but ended up keeping after he proved his worth in preseason, played regularly at striker in the 1 year he was there under Pep in a treble winning season, eventually sold in a money + player deal for Ibra. I've obviously painted a positive picture here and there was definitely problems between the 2 but none of it really mattered in the end because despite it all it was a successful campaign for both player and coach.
Ibra: Pep wanted him, Ibra wanted Barca, it felt like a match made in heaven... but problems started arising when Messi, who by then had become the best player in the world wanted to be played through the middle, a position he never gave up until the arrival of Suarez after he knew Barca had become too reliant on him and it was weighing down their bid to the win the CL again (for e.g. Villa was deployed at LW whenever Messi was played). Pep obviously budged to Messi's request however he tried this 4-5-1 of sorts with the both of them central but it didn't prove to be a success and I'm sure we're both aware of everything that followed.
Hart: As much as it pained me to see him leave he simply wasn't going to fit Pep's system, Pep gave him the option of staying and learning to play with the ball at his feet but considering his England's place was already under threat this wasn't a risk he could take and thus had to go elsewhere for 1st team football, sad even typing this.
Toure: A City legend who's legacy has been tarnished by many nonsensical feuds his agent has decided to have in public with the club going back to the infamous "Cakegate". Toure has spent the better part of the last 2 seasons just strolling about the pitch when we don't have the ball, making us essentially defend a man down and not exactly setting the world alight even with the ball. Pep with his intense pressing game was never going to put up with his sort of discipline, he too was given the option to leave or simply get with the program (run more, take part in the counter-pressing), he's instead picked a 3rd option of collecting his £220k a week cheque and getting his agent involved in yet another public feud with the club.
You seem to confuse mistreatment with simply doing what's best for the team, mistreatment is what Mourinho is doing to Schweinsteiger by making him train with the reserves ffs.
So Carlo Ancelotti is a failure? His record with league titles is quite average given the team's he's managed and I guess Jose Mourinho is a failure too considering he could never deliver the CL for Real with the most expensive team ever assembled?
Lahm as DM and Alaba as CB, the latter only ever happened in a back 3 where you need pace at LCB and RCB to deal with 1v1s with wingers, but his idea in bringing Lahm to the middle was that he was far too intelligent a player and passer to just be used as a RB in the Dani Alves mold.
As far as Gotze is concerned he just never settled in at Bayern and was never able to consistently beat any of the others in his position to a starting place in a squad you yourself called monstrous, and it's a trend with players leaving Dortmund sadly (other than Lewandowski that is), Sahin went to Real, benched, went on loan to Liverpool and eventually came back to Dortmund, same with Kagawa at United and now Mkhitaryan again at United though it's still very early in the season.
P.S. Sorry for the long post, just love football too much.
