The Manchester City manager declares that he still holds Rooney accountable for Kompany’s sending off and also acknowledges that City have a problem with all the injuries and sending offs...
After embarking on a 250 million pound shopping spree in the summer transfer window last season, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roberto-c31294 Mancini is telling the media that he still thinks that Manchester City are now short of players in their squad after taking
into account all the injuries as well as the departures for the African Cup of Nations in January. Vincent Kompany’s red card against Manchester United which means that he will now miss four matches for Manchester City has added to the problem that Mancini
faces at City where his first choice centre backs are either injured or away on international duty.
City’s 3-2 defeat to Manchester United showed that the Citizens were short of creativity in the centre of the park due to Yaya Toure’s absence despite the fact that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Silva-c10601 played for them against the Red Devils. With Dzeko,
Balotelli out with injuries, Roberto http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mancini-c23323 is also short on offensive options, something that might derail City’s attempts to take on Manchester United in the English Premier League title race.
Mancini said in his latest interview, "All the people think we have a lot of players. But we have 19, plus keepers. It is not a big squad. If we are unlucky and we have three or four players injured, like at this moment, we can
have a problem. The club knows this." Next season, City might have trouble buying their way to success in the Premier League especially with the UEFA financial fair play rules that prohibit clubs to spend more than their income.
Mancini stated, "I said four weeks ago that December and January would be crucial months. Until three weeks ago we didn't have any injuries. Now, we have a problem. We have players injured and others who went to the African Nations
Cup at a crucial moment. I am not happy about this but we can't do anything about it. If we don't get the players back we will play with the young players. If we don't have a central defender we will play with (Karim) Rekik."
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