Manuel Pellegrini, the Malaga coach, is expected to be appointed as the
Italian's successor once the La Liga season is concluded on June 1.
City accelerated efforts to recruit the Chilean last week as a result of
Barcelona’s growing interest in the former Villarreal manager.
However, despite claims on Sunday night that first-team coach Brian Kidd had
been asked to take charge of City's
final two games, it is understood that Mancini and his staff were in London,
preparing for training at Loftus Road on Monday morning prior to the trip to
the Madejski Stadium.
Having witnessed a humiliation in the FA Cup final against
relegation-threatened Wigan
Athletic at Wembley on Saturday, it is understood that the club’s
Abu Dhabi hierarchy have now lost confidence in Mancini’s ability to take
the team forward.
A board meeting at the club’s hotel on Saturday morning ended with no show of
support for the former Inter Milan coach and, tellingly, no mandate for
City’s communications department to quash speculation originating in Spain
that a deal had been already agreed with Pellegrini.
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