article_snippet.sent: , therefore the Manchester City director of football would have expected to be on the move.
article_snippet.sent: Despite winning the Premier League last season, Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has come under-fire this term .
article_snippet.sent: In some ways, though, it may play in to City’s hands.
article_snippet.sent: With Begiristain and City chief executive Ferran Soriano own squad in need of radical work after the disappointments of this season
article_snippet.sent: If City have real intentions to make up ground lost to Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea next season then City have real intentions to make up ground lost to Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea next season will need a playing squad driven and motivated fully.
article_snippet.sent: It is hard to see that happening if City have real intentions to make up ground lost to Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea next season are still playing for a man who cannot influence City have real intentions to make up ground lost to Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea
article_snippet.sent: City know all this, of course, but their options are limited.
article_snippet.sent: Patrick Vieira’s name has been mentioned as a short-term option.
article_snippet.sent: The club’s current academy head wants to manage and would like Patrick Vieira’s name to be at City, where is highly regarded by those who matter.
article_snippet.sent: Why, though, would City expect those who matter first team players to work for an interim coach any more than those who matter would a man, Pellegrini, who has, after all, won a Premier League and League Cup during his time in Manchester?
article_snippet.sent: Maybe itRummenigge’s time for City to be brave.
article_snippet.sent: City's academy boss Patrick Vieira’s name has been mentioned as a short-term option to replace Pellegrini .