Thursday 23 May 2013 08:11, UK
Malaga have confirmed that Manuel Pellegrini will not be the club's coach next season to further pave the way for the Chilean to become the next Manchester City manager.
Meanwhile, City chief executive Ferran Soriano has been expanding on the reasons for Mancini's dismissal and, when asked what the Italian did wrong, he told CNN: "He did very good things for the club. He stayed there for three years, which is a lot of time. He brought the club to a winning club. "Now we are just looking for the next step, the next cycle. "We have a fantastic squad. We want to play better football and we want to continue winning. "It is not that Mancini did anything wrong. We are just in another cycle, in another era." In their statement that announced Mancini's departure, City referred to the need to develop a "holistic approach" to all aspects of football at the club. It had previously been rumoured City wanted to introduce a fluid 4-3-3 style of play to all their sides, from junior level up to first team. When asked about that matter, Soriano said: "We are looking to play very good football, very beautiful football. When we are playing good football, then we will win. "So it is not only about winning, it is developing football that is attractive and it will be played by our main teams, our first team in Manchester, our young teams in Manchester and also our teams in New York. "We want to share the same football concepts across all our teams."