Manchester City’s players appear to have lost their desire under manager Manuel Pellegrini, Peter Reid has told talkSPORT.
City’s Premier League title defence is in tatters after Saturday’s humiliating defeat at Burnley, while they are also staring down the barrel of a Champions League exit at the last 16 stage, with Barcelona holding a 2-1 lead ahead of Wednesday’s second leg at the Nou Camp.
Pellegrini’s position is reportedly under serious threat, and Reid admits the signs do not look good for the Chilean coach.
Speaking on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast, the former City boss said: “There's no desire when they lose the ball to get it back, to zip it around the park.
“We can all have off days in any walk of life, but that desire, fighting for the shirt, not wanting to get beat, I’m looking at City and I don’t see that.
“The players have got a big responsibility to show what they can do. At this moment in time, it doesn’t look as if they are doing that. They are real top, top players and they are not doing the business at the moment.
“To be fair to Pellegrini he did recently leave [Vincent] Kompany out and last year he left out the England goalkeeper [Joe Hart], so he has made hard decisions. But for, some reason, it looks as though they are not playing with that desire. And how you get it back, I don’t know.”
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