Mancini didn't love the club. He's not a fan of the club. The vast majority of players and managers who've played for and managed the club, didn't love the club, but I'm fairly convinced he held the fans in affection, as others have too. I've seen him turn up to Santa Stroll when it was pissing down with rain, I've watched him spend a good half hour talking to fans and signing autographs at an open training session, along with only a few others including maligned players like Balotelli - who apparently couldn't give a shit about the fans either according to his critics, though he gave more of a shit than most of the players who didn't bother to stick around at all to spend some time with the fans who'd turned up to watch.