I'm not buying this "it's not my team" excuse

[Cretin Hop]

It's not Pardew's team or Pulis' team or Neil Lennon's team etc but they seem to be doing ok don't they since they came in http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/sherlock.gif

City need a decent coaching team; these players cannot be that bad can they?

[A-team]

Its not Rowetts team either.

[blueblade]

The moment he took the job, those players became "his team".

They may not necessarily be the players he would have chosen but i'm pretty confident they will be better than the squad that he is trying to build.