Following the latest nail in Man City’s title race coffin, Gary Neville wasted little time in dishing out another of his brutal assessments on the champions.
“They’ve got a mentality problem. There’s no doubt,” Neville said on Sky’s Monday Night Football. “This team cannot sustain success.
“When you win championships, you’ve got to be able to come back again and show the same hunger. They don’t. They drop off it. They get to the top of the mountain and go, ‘phew, we did it’, and it’s the worst thing that can happen.”
With the Manchester derby looming, the former United captain’s words will take on added significance.
City’s owners clearly have very high expectations for the club and, given their track record of dismissing Mark Hughes and Roberto Mancini, defeat at Old Trafford could signal P45 time for Manuel Pellegrini.
