David Pizarro: I arrived with Manchester City at the top of the Premier League and let's hope we finish there

The Chilean midfielder has made a statement of intent following his loan move from Roma, hoping his creative talents can inspire his new club to their first title since 1968

1 Feb 2012 18:19:00

By Edward Tibbles

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David Pizarro has revealed his desire to help Manchester City win their first league title since 1968, after making his loan move from Roma.

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The Chilean midfielder is confident that he has the ability to add something to Manchester City’s charge for Premier League glory, even though he struggled to attain regular playing time at his former club.

Since making his move he has not had the time to speak to manager Roberto Mancini, so is in the dark over what the manager expects, but is confident of combining well with the talents already at the club.

"I'm fit and ready to play at the weekend. I arrived with City at the top of the league and let's hope we finish there," Pizarro said to CityTV.

"I haven't spoken to Roberto yet but I'm sure we will sit down soon and discuss what my role will be at the club and what he wants me to do.

"I like to play good football and pass the ball around, so I think that combined with players like David Silva and Sergio Aguero will be a positive mix.

"It's great when a manager has confidence in you to bring you to a club, and wants you in the title run-in. I will try to help make history with this club and win the league title."

The new arrival at the Etihad Stadium played down the fact that he had not played much football for Roma, and also claimed that he was not expecting to move to England so the transfer came as something of a surprise.

"It was the winter break and football had stopped in Italy. I hadn't been in the first team for a while and Roberto's [Mancini] staff knew this. We had a chat but I didn't think it would come to this,” he explained.

"It was very, very late and a bit of a rush when it did happen, there had been talk of interest from Juventus. But it was just that, just talk.

"I moved to Italy when I was 19 and the country feels like a home to me. I never thought I would be changing country or changing culture."

The Chilean will be wearing the iconic number 7 shirt, previously worn by club legend Colin Bell, but is confident of rising to the expectations the shirt creates.

He continued: "It's a big honour to wear the number 8 shirt but back at Roma there was a similar situation when I wore the number 7 shirt of Bruno Conti,"

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