Mancini unveiled as new Man City boss
Manchester City presented Roberto Mancini as successor to Mark Hughes as manager of the Citizens and confirmed his contract will run for three and a half years.
The Italian revealed former City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson - under whom he played in Serie A - had been in touch.
"Sven called me yesterday, he is very happy for me, he said Manchester City is a fantastic club."
"After Inter Milan I wanted to stop for one year but I had four (approaches from clubs). I preferred to wait because I wanted to go to England and the Premier League."
Mancini revealed he hoped to lead City to a top-four finish this season - but said he had not been given a target by the club.
He said: "My squad usually play to win, always. My target is to arrive in the top four - but it's my objective, my target. I think it's possible.
"Next year we want to win the Premier League."
He added: "City is a big club. I want to stay here for many, many years and I want to contribute to winning many trophies because City has great supporters and I hope we do a good job for them.
"My job is to work hard every day to improve the play, to improve the victories. This is all.
"I think I can do a good job because we have good players."
Mancini took training with the City players for the first time today.
"I told them to believe in ourselves and they are great players and we can win if we work hard every day," he said.
The former Inter Milan coach will wait before deciding whether he wants to bring in any players of his own, but he does not feel his Premier League inexperience will be an issue.
"I want to see this week the players and after we'll make a decision," he said. "For now it's important we concentrate on Stoke.
"I played in (the) Premier League 10 years ago with Leicester and I watched the Premier League for many years.
"Last year I stayed in Milan and I saw a lot of games. I think that football is the same (throughout) the world."
Mancini expressed sympathy for his predecessor, saying: "I'm sorry for Mark but when we start this job, this situation is possible.
"My job is a manager. I stayed in Italy for four years and I won seven trophies.
"At the end of the season they sacked me. This is our job.
"I don't want to look back."
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| Home | Away | Score | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu Feb 9th | |||
| Lazio | Cesena | 3 - 2 | 19:45 |
| Sat Feb 11th | |||
| Udinese | Milan | 1 - 2 | 17:00 |
| Cagliari | Palermo | 2 - 1 | 19:45 |
| Lazio | Cesena | - | 23:00 |
| Napoli | Chievo | - | 23:00 |
| Siena | Roma | - | 23:00 |
| Sun Feb 12th | |||
| Siena | Roma | - | 14:00 |
| Parma | Fiorentina | - | 14:00 |
| Udinese | Milan | - | 14:00 |
| Catania | Genoa | 4 - 0 | 14:00 |
| Internazionale | Novara | 0 - 1 | 14:00 |
| Lazio | Cesena | - | 14:00 |
| Cagliari | Palermo | - | 14:00 |
| Napoli | Chievo | - | 14:00 |
| Atalanta | Lecce | 0 - 0 | 14:00 |
| Bologna | Juventus | - | 19:45 |
| Mon Feb 13th | |||
| Napoli | Chievo | 2 - 0 | 19:45 |
| Siena | Roma | 1 - 0 | 19:45 |
| Wed Mar 7th | |||
| Parma | Fiorentina | - | 17:30 |
| Bologna | Juventus | - | 17:30 |
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| Milan | 23 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 47 |
| Juventus | 21 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 20 | 45 |
| Lazio | 23 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 42 |
| Udinese | 23 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 41 |
| Internazionale | 23 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 36 |
| Roma | 23 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 35 |
| Napoli | 23 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 34 |
| Palermo | 23 | 9 | 4 | 10 | -1 | 31 |
| Genoa | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | -11 | 30 |
| Cagliari | 23 | 7 | 9 | 7 | -2 | 30 |
| Fiorentina | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 28 |
| Catania | 21 | 6 | 9 | 6 | -2 | 27 |
| Parma | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | -7 | 27 |
| Chievo | 23 | 7 | 6 | 10 | -11 | 27 |
| Atalanta | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | -2 | 24 |
| Siena | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 23 |
| Bologna | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | -8 | 22 |
| Lecce | 23 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -16 | 18 |
| Cesena | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | -19 | 16 |
| Novara | 23 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -22 | 16 |
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Comments (3)
WRONG lol...love it when nobodys claim to know more about football than the professionals classic
'"Last year I stayed in Milan and I saw a lot of games. I think that football is the same (throughout) the world." - WRONG
good signing now they may be able to sign more than big team rejects.....they needed a real manager to sign good players....
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