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Mancini: City owners back me

Roberto Mancini insists he retains a good working relationship with Manchester City's owners despite the club's slump in form.

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big dave (Manchester United) says...

'We won the Premier League maybe too quickly because usually it is four or five years for a team like City to do this.' - 'Team like City'? There are no other teams like City, Roberto, and there never have been. £930m spent since 2008, two-thirds of which came straight out of a sugar daddy's pocket? Not sure I see who you're comparing yourself with mate. I sometimes take you seriously when you talk about money, transfers, etc. but then I remember that you have more millions at your disposal than most clubs have seats, but you still find reasons why things are so difficult and why City can't be expected to compete against A, B or C. If you take a billion of an oil magnate's cash, giving you ten times what most of your competitors will ever have, you better think a bit more carefully about what needs to be achieved. Spending the GDP of a Caribbean island to win two trophies, then planning a clear-out 12 months later and more astronomical spending makes you look a bit c**p in all honesty. Long may you stay at City.

Posted 7:04am 19th February 2013

onstandby (Manchester City) says...

He's won an FA Cup and a Premier League in two seasons - yes, he should be taking advice from you bunch of morons who have never played the game at the top level or managed your way out of a paper bag. He tried to mix it up with three at the back, and he'll succeed with the right blend. He took Colin Warnock to the cleaners today.

Posted 4:13pm 17th February 2013

utd_till_i_die (Manchester United) says...

It was always destined to end this way. Man City are always going to find it hard to achieve the results worth the money as opposed to real clubs through no fault of anyone but the owner and the players they buy. Managers going there will always look for the easy way out (i.e to spend money when things go wrong) to get out of a fix. And successful people always use adversity to create their future. Not crib and wail like Moancini does.

Posted 2:07pm 17th February 2013

redbornandbred (Manchester United) says...

Like his compatriot, Di Matteo, Euroflop should remember there are special circumstances working for dodgy oligarchs. It is Moancini who has taken the oil-gotten gains and signed the pact with the shady shake of Abu Barclays. It's for him to decide whether he can risk another champions' league campaign - assuming Citeh qualify which is no certainty at the moment; also whether he can trust Euroflop's judgement on purchasing players after Balotelli, Dezko, Nasri etc. etc. As a United fan, I hope the Abu Dhaboo Doo (ref. Private Eye: Heir of Sorrows) shows his usual business sense and keeps Euroflop in his job! Should be even easier for us next season if he does!

Posted 11:00am 17th February 2013

kisstopher73 (Arsenal) says...

Point of correction Mr Machini, lets say all managers who have access to vast amounts of transfer fees but still fail to win the league should be sacked.

Posted 9:55am 17th February 2013

sennas (Manchester United) says...

He's right though... There's JT and the interim.

Posted 7:57am 17th February 2013

colinhunt says...

pure gold. Yep the other '20' clubs should sack their managers because you are gash! Yep that Moyes fella is under achieving, and that Fergie chap has been on thin ice for years, they'd have surely been given their marching orders by now if there were any decent replacements out there.....! Pleb, jog on!

Posted 3:00am 17th February 2013

jenas christ (Tottenham Hotspur) says...

So he is in a roundabout way saying that he is doing equally as well as Sir Alex?

Posted 12:45am 17th February 2013

crowsy (Chelsea) says...

I think the comments are starting to get to Mancini.

Posted 12:42am 17th February 2013

Genusa says...

Mancini, I remembered you and your player said it will be 2 games. Now you are saying 3 or 4 games. If you are not concentrating on winning your own games, but waiting for United to drop points, you might be saying 5 or 6 games. And by the time it is April 8, your players may be giving the United players the "Guard of Honour"

Posted 11:27pm 16th February 2013

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