{"id":863411,"date":"2026-09-28T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863411\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:16:16","slug":"mancini-refers-to-double-manchester-city-contract-and-says-it-isnt-my-problem-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863411\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancini refers to \u2018double\u2019 Manchester City contract and says it \u2018isn\u2019t my problem\u2019 | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roberto Mancini appeared to acknowledge he had \u201ca double contract\u201d when he managed Manchester City after the club were found guilty of breaching<\/a> the Premier League\u2019s financial rules.<\/p>\n

But Mancini, who in 2011-12 coached City to their first Premier League<\/a> title in a half century and is now in charge of Italy, also said that what is developing potentially into the biggest scandal in English football history was \u201cnot a problem that concerns me\u201d.<\/p>\n

Among the raft of charges that City faced is an alleged failure to provide accurate details for player and manager payments between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons. The German magazine Der Spiegel in 2018 published evidence showing that Mancini doubled his base salary of \u00a31.45m for advising a club in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Mancini led City to their first titles after Abu Dhabi\u2019s ruling family bought the club in 2008, also winning the FA Cup in 2011. He was fired by City days after a shocking loss to Wigan in the FA Cup final in 2013.<\/p>\n

Mancini was asked about his contract with City at Italy\u2019s news conference in Turkey before a Nations League match on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a problem that concerns me,\u201d Mancini said. \u201cAnyhow, it\u2019s not something new, because every four or five years this comes up. Manchester City<\/a> is not guilty and the fact of having a double contract isn\u2019t my problem but theirs, probably.\u201d<\/p>\n

City said on Friday that their case with the Premier League was \u201congoing.\u201d They have always denied wrongdoing and the chair, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, restated that stance<\/a> in a letter to fans on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Premier League process still has a long way to run, and our confidence and intent in proving the club\u2019s innocence is just as strong as when this began,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto Mancini appeared to acknowledge he had \u201ca double contract\u201d when he managed Manchester City after the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-863411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}