Roberto Mancini is no longer Inter Milan manager. Depending on who you want to believe, he was either sacked by Inter, or left on a mutual agreement.
Mancini’s exit means that there can be speculation about the manager’s future, and which club he’ll be off to next.
Italian journalist Alfredo Pedulla says the stay ended in the worst possible way for Mancini. He’ll pocket €2m, but walked away with a damaged reputation, and that’s something which could prove more costly.
However, that hasn’t dampened Mancini’s ambition. Pedulla says the manager has an idea fixed in his head, and that’s to take over from Arsene Wenger at Arsenal.
For the purposes of the claim, Pedulla believes that Wenger could be coming to the end of a very long stay at Arsenal, and so leave a vacancy for Mancini at some point before next summer.
That’s Mancini’s priority, and he’ll continue to work for it, regardless of what choices he makes over the next few weeks.
This claim from Pedulla may break the mould and be right, but what Mancini wants, Mancini may not get.
The period at Inter isn’t exactly going to leave Arsenal’s power brokers impressed… although it has been something of a basket case club in recent times.
Mancini has Premier League experience at Manchester City, and of course won the title with them in 2012. The Italian also built up a reputation, deservedly or not, of being abrasive at the club and falling out with people.
