Harry and Mancini have been contacted by the FA to explain their comments
Fergie gets off scott free
Harry and Mancini have been contacted by the FA to explain their comments
Fergie gets off scott free
No!Originally Posted by Happy GHELmas
Until the end.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Oh dear
"Clean it up, traitor."
"Sunken to new low, huh?"
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says the club's failure to sign striker Robin van Persie in the summer could cost them the Premier League title.
Mancini says he was "very close" to signing Van Persie, who has scored 14 goals in 20 games following a £24m move to Manchester United from Arsenal.
"Robin van Persie is a very important player for United," said Mancini, whose side trail United by seven points.
"He has changed their situation. He is the difference between us."
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We were very close three or four months before he joined United
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Roberto Mancini
Van Persie, who scored 37 goals for Arsenal last season, was linked with City before deciding to sign for rivals United.
"We wanted Van Persie because we knew he could be an important player," added Mancini.
"He is totally different from our other strikers. We wanted him for the Champions League and for the Premier League.
"We were very close. We were sure he was for us but this did not happen and now we can do nothing. We were very close three or four months before he joined United."
Mancini said he knew why City failed in their bid to sign the Dutchman but would not elaborate. When asked if it related to money, the Italian said: "It is not the problem."
Mancini added he retained faith in his striker options of Sergio Aguero, Carlos Tevez, Edin Dzeko and Mario Balotelli despite the quartet struggling to find the back of the net recently.
"I am happy, very happy," he said. "Last year we were the team that scored the most goals in the Premier League.
"But when you can improve your team with another top player, this is important. With Van Persie we would play with three strikers sometimes."
this was from mancini. so not only does he admit to tapping up, it shows how van persie wanted out and just used that statement to make sure he was out.
yet people still blame the club for selling him instead of blaming him. just shows what a **** he is. going behind our backs
RVP signed for Utd in mid August, so according to Mancini they were close to signing him around mid May, by which time the season had ended. We know RVP and the club discussed the new contract at the end of the season, talks which ended badly and from then on everyone at the club knew he was leaving (of course because of the club gagging order this was only made public after the Euros). So I don't know how you assume from what Mancini has said that RVP "went behind the club's back". We signed Podolski knowing full well RVP was leaving.
Pretty much.
I think RVP is overrated as a footballer, but I don't understand how you can accuse him of going behind the club's back. The contract had already been rejected, we had already signed a replacement (and were looking at getting in Giroud at the same time) so RVP discussing terms with Mancini is hardly irregular. The reason the statement was released in July was that the club had told him to keep silent. He had decided he was on his way back in May.
In any case, if RVP and/or City were behaving dishonestly, I'm sure Wenger would have said something to the media. He did when Barca were banging on about Cesc's Barca DNA after all.
Openly admitted you ripped up a contract from Arsenal and put it in the bin is extremely disrespectful but I expect nothing less from such a ****.
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