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Roberto Mancini Assures Manchester City Supporters That Trophy Drought Will End This Season
Italian is confident that transfer spending will pay off this year
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Aug 1, 2010 3:30:00 AM
By Anthony Sciarrino
Roberto Mancini has promised that this is the season that Manchester City will end their 35 year trophy drought.
The 45-year-old has once again spent a fortune in the transfer market this summer in a bid to transform City into one of the Premier League’s elite clubs.
Yaya Toure, David Silva, Aleksandar Kolarov, Jerome Boateng have all come to the Eastlands club this summer, and Inter Milan starlet Mario Balotelli is expected to join the squad soon.
The Italian believes that City’s spending will pay off, and that the team will win their first trophy since 1976.
“I will win a trophy,” Mancini told The Mirror.
“I don’t know if it will be the Premier League, a European trophy or the FA Cup.
“But we will win something. This year we will change our history.”
Mancini believes that it is important that all of the big stars on the City squad must play together if they are ever going to win, and if they are able to do that then he will be able to turn the Eastlands club around like he did with Inter.
“It’s important that we all work in the same way. I hope that all players I bring in will change our way of playing.
“I want to bring in a winning mentality. You can only win a trophy when you work hard - and when you think. Because if you work and don’t think, it’s impossible when you play the game to do a good job.
“When I arrived at Inter they hadn’t won a trophy for 15 years. In one year we changed our mentality.
“We became a strong team. We played at home and away with the same mentality.
“So, in one year you can change. But if you don’t think in a technical way it will be difficult. I think our mentality must be intense.
“It must be to try and win every game home and away, and to try to win the league."
The 45-year-old has once again spent a fortune in the transfer market this summer in a bid to transform City into one of the Premier League’s elite clubs.
Yaya Toure, David Silva, Aleksandar Kolarov, Jerome Boateng have all come to the Eastlands club this summer, and Inter Milan starlet Mario Balotelli is expected to join the squad soon.
The Italian believes that City’s spending will pay off, and that the team will win their first trophy since 1976.
“I will win a trophy,” Mancini told The Mirror.
“I don’t know if it will be the Premier League, a European trophy or the FA Cup.
“But we will win something. This year we will change our history.”
Mancini believes that it is important that all of the big stars on the City squad must play together if they are ever going to win, and if they are able to do that then he will be able to turn the Eastlands club around like he did with Inter.
“It’s important that we all work in the same way. I hope that all players I bring in will change our way of playing.
“I want to bring in a winning mentality. You can only win a trophy when you work hard - and when you think. Because if you work and don’t think, it’s impossible when you play the game to do a good job.
“When I arrived at Inter they hadn’t won a trophy for 15 years. In one year we changed our mentality.
“We became a strong team. We played at home and away with the same mentality.
“So, in one year you can change. But if you don’t think in a technical way it will be difficult. I think our mentality must be intense.
“It must be to try and win every game home and away, and to try to win the league."
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