both extremes are bad. Being entitled is bad, but being a yesman is bad too.
Conte was an entitled crybaby who was aking for the CR7s of the world in a moment we simply could not buuy them. And he blamed the lack of quality of the players to hide his shortcomings, when in fact we had some good players in our roster, and allegri debunked that pretty fast in the season after conte left.
About max, i dont know about you, but personally i have never seen an interview in which he openly ask for isco or any fansista.. and if it exists please quote it. All we have heard are rumours from the “experds". On the other hand, What i HAVE really seen from max is an obsession with players like khedira. Thats a fact and is there for all to see.
So in the end, i would not say he can come with his hands clean on this matter.
Theres is clearly something going on with the board and their decitions in the mercato... but lets be honest, allegri at this point in his career is a top 5 coach, and as one, he is in all his right to make his voice be heard if he seens something not going well.
If he was bending over to the decitions of agnelli and the late beppe, it was his fault. He simply was riding a paycheck. After the midfield got dismembered he had to talk his way out of that problem. I have never seen an urge from his part to fix that.
Remeber his own words “bring me what you can and ill see how i make it work”. Thats a very dangerous way of working because not always you will be able to make random things work