{"id":749,"date":"2014-01-22T17:12:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T17:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=749"},"modified":"2014-01-22T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T17:12:16","slug":"my-players-score-the-goals-mancini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/my-players-score-the-goals-mancini\/","title":{"rendered":"”My players score the goals” Mancini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says he is the architect of the team’s success this season.<\/p>\n

Current boss Manuel Pellegrini has been credited with making City – who have scored 106 goals already this season – more attacking.<\/p>\n

But Galatasaray coach Mancini, who left City last summer, says it is the players he bought who are responsible.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy that Manchester City is one of the best teams in England because I built this team,” Mancini, 49, said.<\/p>\n

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“The players that score the goals are players that I bought – Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko, Yaya Toure, David Silva and Samir Nasri.”<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

After Mancini’s departure, City recruited the likes of midfielder Fernandinho and striker Alvaro Negredo, who has already scored 23 goals in his first season.<\/p>\n

Pellegrini is targeting an unprecedented quadruple of Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and Capital One Cup.<\/p>\n

The Chilean boss has secured City’s path to the knockout stages of the Champions League, something Mancini failed to do in two attempts.<\/p>\n

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Former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says he is the architect of the team’s success this season. Current boss Manuel Pellegrini has been credited with making City – who have scored 106 goals already this season – more attacking. But Galatasaray coach Mancini, who left City last summer, says it is the players he bought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}