Mancini warns rivals City will keep spending
MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini has urged the club’s super-rich owners to keep the purse-strings loose as he plots adding European titles to his first Premier League success.
Sheikh Mansour has spent close to £1bn transforming City from top-flight also-rans into champions but Mancini insists further sprees are necessary if they are to claim the Champions League. Arsenal striker Robin van Persie and Lille’s sought-after Belgian winger Eden Hazard are among the players that Mancini is thought keen to add to an already stellar Blues squad.
“Barcelona and Real Madrid every year buy two or three players and spend a lot of money. I think for Manchester City it will be the same,” he said. “We need to improve. We need to have the strength to play Champions League and Premier League.”