Taking the last 5 seasons of jovetic is unfair assessment on him tbh. 5 seasons ago jovetic had a torn acl and put him aside for the whole 1 season. taking this season into you calculation definitely will lower his average minutes.
Jovetic played a total of 7032 minutes in the last 4 seasons which is on average 1758 minutes. If we divided the average by 90 minutes, then he would have average of 20 games per season. But then again, it is an unfair comparison. Kovacic, Medel and Brozovic have more time and chances to play. Jovetic faces more competition in Man City.
How about Shaqiri?
2014/15 1717 minutes.
2013/14 1226 minutes.
2012/13 1911 minutes.
2011/12 3081 minutes. (Basel)
average 1983 minutes in the last 4 years. average 1618 minutes in the last 3 years. Does this make Shaqiri a worse player than Medel, Brozovic, Kovacic, etc? Or this actually justifies the sale of Shaqiri to Stoke.
Jovetic had 2 good seasons with 29 games and 34 games after his ACL and before he went to City and started to have love hate relationship with hamstrings.