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Mancini dismisses sack claims

Roberto Mancini has denied claims his Manchester City job could be on the line this weekend by saying his critics "don't understand football".

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big dave (Manchester United) says...

It's a fairly simple equation for the owners, who have to balance stability, and what they expect to be achieved with £1bn in a league where nobody else could afford even a quarter of that. I don't think they expect to be 12 points behind their considerably worse-off rivals for that kind of money. But the devil is in the detail, as ever. In football you will get beaten by weaker teams, you can have the best squad by a distance and come second, and a £50m player can be a flop. All you can do is minimise these risks with shrewd decision-making, fantastic man-management and coaching, and so on. Does Mancini look to the owners like someone who did everything right, and was unfortunate, or does he look like the wrong man for the job? We will find out one way or another in Summer I think. He deserves a couple more years to build something lasting, but if I were him I wouldn't keep harping on about things like how RVP is 'the difference' (when Mancini spent over £20m on a player ten times in the last four years), how he needs to rebuild in the summer (when he has an embarrassment of riches that aren't playing to their potential under his management), or how everything is 'difficult' for City. That would p**s me off if it were my billion that had just been spent.

Posted 4:10pm 19th February 2013

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