Manuel Pellegrini admits he inherited a fractured dressing room when taking charge of Manchester City last summer.
The City manager won his first league title in Europe yesterday.
They hired Pellegrini last summer to bring harmony after the rancour of Roberto Mancini's final season in charge, and the Chilean admitted he had inherited an unhappy dressing room.
"Maybe the relations were not the best," he said. "It was very important to have calm, to try to convince them how we can play and how important it was to be close, all of us. Maybe they were in a very difficult moment when I arrived here but they always believed what I told them."
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