Source: team_talk
Edin Dzeko warns he will not settle for substitute role at Manchester City
Edin Dzeko has warned that 'every player has their limits' as he refuses to accept the role of super-sub at Manchester City.
The Bosnia international is the Premier League champions' top scorer so far this season but has still missed out on a series of big games in the current campaign.
And Dzeko has no intention of allowing himself to be seen as merely an option from the bench and has issued a warning to Roberto Mancini.
"You can call me whatever you want but I will never accept that I'm a super-sub," Dzeko told the Sunday Telegraph.
"I'm 26 years old and I played a lot of games before I came here to City and I scored a lot of goals in Germany and, before that, the Czech Republic. I won the league in Germany and was top scorer there. "I was never just a sub and I never will be one. At the moment, maybe, it's like that. It's not great for me. But with my goals and with the goals I have scored so far this year I think I deserve to play more.
"I am enjoying it at City but I just want to play more. People think, 'OK, he's a nice guy and so he can sit on the bench,' and, yes, I am a nice guy. But everyone has their limits. I don't need to speak to the manager. He knows how many goals I've scored.
"Of course I don't expect to play every game. But I'm not talking about every game. "What I don't want is to play one game - and then the next two or three I'm not playing. As a striker you need to play a series of games. I know what I'm capable of. "I came to City to play - if I was scared about playing here because I knew there were good players, top players, and more top players would come, then I would not have come here. But I came here because I know I can do it."
