Chippy_boy
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BlueMoonz1977 said:Chippy_boy said:Prestwich_Blue said:It's also my understanding that Mancini was never seen by the owners as the ideal choice for our long-term manager
I can say for a fact that this is true. I have never been ITK about anything but a couple of months before Christmas by some weird chance I did become party to some dialogue between the Sheik and Khaldoon. They were more than clear that Mancini was not the long term choice and that they wanted Guardiola at the end of the season at the latest, Christmas if they could get him. I was shocked when he went to Munich, but I guess in the end he just did not want to come to Manchester and we couldn't persuade him.
And where did you become party to this dialogue ?
In Abu Dhabi, during the grand prix.