Given issues ultimatum to Mancini
Shay Given’s tenure at Manchester City may be at an end after the Republic of Ireland goalkeeper issued an ultimatum to manager Roberto Mancini to pick him for their Premier League opener against Tottenham Hotspur this weekend.
Speaking at Ireland’s training session in Malahide this morning, Given laid it on the line that if Joe Hart is picked ahead of him that he will consider his position at Eastlands.
The Donegal man missed the end of last season at the club after injuring his shoulder, with Mancini declining to bring back Hart from a loan spell at Birmingham. He returned to Eastlands over the summer, with Mancini turning down an offer from Sunderland to take the 23-year-old England goalkeeper on loan this season.