Former Manchester City manager Mancini: "I built this team"

Roberto Mancini

Current Galatasaray and former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is happy that his former club City are doing well in the league and other competitions.

He is also impressed by what Manuel Pellegrini has done up till now and stated:

“When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players, this is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well and the players should understand this.”

“When you change the manager, it is better maybe, because you change the way to work.”

“I think Pellegrini is doing a good job but what is happening now at Manchester City, we did three years ago. It’s the same.”

He also said that he is responsible in some way for the resurgence of City this season: “I’m happy that Manchester City is one of the best teams in England because I built this team,” The players that score the goals are players that I bought – Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko, Yaya Toure, David Silva and Samir Nasri.”

Mancini, who was very popular among the City faithful, said that he holds no grudges for being sacked by the Manchester City board:

“After four or five years, maybe the manager needs to change team. I did my job, I built a fantastic team, we played fantastic football and we didn’t win last year only because Manchester United bought Robin van Persie.”

“He was the difference, if not I think that would have changed the history in Manchester over the last three years. We played really good football and now they are continuing to do this.”