Mancini: City breaches 'not my concern'

Roberto Mancini, speaking from Rome on September 28, addressed reports linking him to allegations of a 'double contract' arrangement during his time in charge at the Etihad. Asked directly about it, the Italian was blunt: the matter, he said, is "not my concern", according to Capital Sports.

The comments land as Manchester City deal with the fallout from being found guilty of rule breaches, according to Capital Sports. The precise scope of the breaches, and any sanctions attached to them, has not been detailed in the reporting so far. On the pitch, City look as dominant as ever.

Mancini's position

Mancini's tenure at City ran through some of the club's early transformation years under City Football Group ownership, and any 'double contract' allegation from that period would predate the current Pep Guardiola era by some distance. His response in Rome was short and left little room for follow-up: he is not engaging with the substance of the claim, only rejecting that it touches him personally.

That kind of deflection is not unusual when a legacy figure is dragged into a live regulatory story, but it does add another name to a growing list of people asked to explain their end of it.

Where City stand now

On the pitch, none of this appears to be slowing Manchester City down. Guardiola's side sit top of the Premier League after five games, five wins from five, a goal difference of plus eight and 15 points on the board. The squad behind that run is valued at close to €1.4 billion across 33 players, with a net transfer spend of minus €152 million in the current window, a squad still carrying six academy graduates among its 32 players.

The contrast is stark: a club winning comfortably every week while fielding fresh questions from a guilty finding tied to its past, as reported by Capital Sports. How the two threads intersect, if at all, is not something Mancini seems interested in exploring.