New deal: Mancini will remain at City with an improved,
lengthy contract
Roberto Mancini has agreed to a lengthy new
contract at Manchester
City that will take him past Sir Alex
Ferguson in the Premier League managers' wage
table.
City are expected to announce the 47-year-old Italian's
new deal in the next week or so.
Mancini, currently thought to be paid around £5million a
year at Eastlands, a similar figure to that of his
Manchester United rival, still has a year left on the
three-and-a-half year agreement which he signed when appointed in
December 2009.
The new figure will take him
closer to the £7.2m paid to English football's highest managerial
earner, Arsenal
boss Arsene Wenger.