Yes I totally agree with you, it's either the coach hasn't identified the main issue or he is admitting to suggestions that he doesn't really has full control of the dressing room and I guess you understand what this means for any coach. I expected Manchester city to have improved from what we saw last season but it seems as if the teams is still being haunted by their past which is not good at all because if they continue this way it would affect their performance in the UCL
But seriously, it's not a dressing room problem because I don't really see any big player in that team anymore that can detect for Pep. I personally think that they are not big name players anymore in that City team. Manchester City is a team built on expensive quality players. Look at the team right now, how many quality do they have now as against few years ago, the big names have either left or retired and Pep didn't replace them with their own kind. I think that's the major problem with the club.
You are right the main issue is the club, this is why it's important to build a team in such a way that every player is good enough to hold their ground, I don't like the idea of star players because it makes other players lazy, when these star players eventually leave that club does that mean that it should reflect so much on their performance ? It doesn't really tell well of the team...city is at this point right now