'AJ will join another top team'

[The Future's Blue]

Mancini clearly states that he let AJ go because he wanted 1st team football. He also clearly states that AJ can make it at a big club, that big club is not Sunderland.

That'll fire O'Neill up.

 

[MCRJON]

i think Mancini was happy to let him go as he was sick and tired of him turning up to training hungover.

City sweep a lot of things under the carpet.

 

[Akira]

Strangely,according to our manager
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Mancini tips Johnson for top

October 5, 2012

Roberto Mancini says Adam Johnson has the ability to leave Sunderland and join another "top team".

The England winger returns to Manchester City for the first time since his £10 million move on Saturday, and while Mancini reluctantly accepted that Johnson, whose opportunities at the Etihad Stadium were limited, had to leave, he believes the 25-year-old has the talent to take him back to another elite club.

"He will do well for Sunderland and go to another top team because he deserves this," Mancini said. "I think Adam played well here. The problem may be that he didn't play always. For young players like him it is important to play every game. He is a good guy and a good player."

Johnson only made ten Premier League starts for City last season and was used more as a replacement while David Silva and Samir Nasri became Mancini's first-choice players on the flanks. "I like Adam, but he wanted to play every game," the City manager added. "Here it was difficult."

Last season Sunderland were the only visiting team to leave the Etihad Stadium with a point following a 3-3 draw, and Mancini, whose side went on to win the league on goal difference, believes the late goals scored by Mario Balotelli and Aleksandar Kolarov proved crucial.

He added: "Last year the point we did against Sunderland when we were 3-1 with five minutes to go was an important point in the league."

Neither Maicon nor Micah Richards is expected to be fit to face Martin O'Neill's team while Javi Garcia, who limped off in the Champions League draw with Borussia Dortmund, is a doubt
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Keywords.

Mancini uses this label for his benchwarmers and would-be leavers. Its also like a giant hug.

 

[decmancity]

He is saying it to be polite imo.

He isn't going to slate his players current or past.

I don't think Johno will get to another "top team". He doesn't have the right attitude if you believe the rumours nor enough to his game unless he really turns himself around with O'Neil.

I still think he is a good player and one of my favourite players of recent times but he has just gone backwards these past two years and when you see basically every player in the current team having come on quite a bit under Mancini it would suggest it isn't Mancini's fault.

 

[Panthera Tigris]

It's just Mancini being his usual banal self. When Has Roberto ever said anything of any real consequence or importance?
He's just like his mentor Eriksson, a bullshit artist.

 

[Ragnarok]

It's just Mancini being his usual banal self. When Has Roberto ever said anything of any real consequence or importance?
He's just like his mentor Eriksson, a bullshit artist.

I just skimmed through your post history. You really light up any room you enter with your positivity, dont you?

 

[foley87]

It's quite clear he's said this to put pressure onto AJ to perform tomorow knowing full well he won't deliver

 

[VinceYoungisaBLUE]

Mancini didn't want him to go it was AJ who wanted out for 1st team football

only thees....

I thought AJ was one of the best impacts subs we could have had, and even when he started I thought he got an unfair amount of criticism.