Mancini forced out
Monday 3 August, 2009
Roberto Mancini believes he has not returned to coaching because the powers that be no longer want him in football.
The 44-year-old was fired by Inter last summer despite winning three League titles in a row.
He has been repeatedly linked with some of the biggest jobs in Europe, but a year later Mancini is still out in the cold.
Asked if he thought it would be this way, Mancini replied: “No, I did not expect it, but on the whole it's only a year since I stopped, a year in which I took a break and waited for a great opportunity from abroad.
“Every now and again I think about it and I don't have a clear response. There is no logic. Anyway, it can happen.
“But if an interesting proposal were to arrive from a club with an important project - not necessarily a title-winning one - I would have no problems signing a part from the contract.
“Every now and again I think that certain attitudes are penalising me. Someone, hopefully, has thought about me and then remembered something that I said or did and decided against calling me.
“Anyway, I don't believe I ever broke the rules. I have always said what I thought without being offensive. Sure I exposed myself, but I believe I showed that I know how to train and do my job well.
“Whoever wants me has to take me analysing the values I express on the bench. I have won with Fiorentina, with Lazio and with Inter. If arguments count instead, then amen. I don't know what to do about it. I can only say it wouldn't be right,” Mancini told Il Corriere dello Sport.
The former Sampdoria striker also said he didn't regret resigning and then not after Inter's defeat to Liverpool in the Champions League in March 2008.
“Are there still people who believe that I distanced myself from Inter because I said - in a great moment of tension - that I would no longer be Inter's trainer?
“I already knew Moratti and Mourinho had seen each other. It was the right of the President to change Coach. It's Inter who have made people believe that they got rid of me because of that outburst, but that's not the reality,” Mancini concluded.
