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Platt: Hard-working Mancini ideal manager for Man City

Manchester City coach David Platt says manager Roberto Mancini is the right man to take the club forward.

According to Platt, City have a man like no other in his desire to achieve success.

He revealed: "Roberto's mentality is to win, to create a club that is capable of winning trophies. It is what drives him on, it is what drove him on at Sampdoria as a player when he had a chance to move to bigger clubs.

"At Sampdoria, he was part of a team that could get to the European Cup final against Barcelona and he enjoys that more than doing it with a club that is already successful. I knew him as a player and I always thought I was competitive and had a winning mentality but he is on a different level.

"He pushes you - and you end up going further with it. His winning drive and mentality is obsessive. He is incessant with it and his demands are so high that he can be taken the wrong way sometimes.

"Because he has done it at Inter, he knows he just has to continue along his road and hope the people come with him."

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