Mancini: Mourinho is not important
Roberto Mancini has hit back at Jose Mourinho by declaring that the Real Madrid manager should stop talking about Manchester City, ESPN.co.uk reported.
After Real's 1-1 draw at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday, which meant City could not progress to the last-16 of the Champions League, Mourinho suggested he would have been sacked if his team had been knocked out in the group stages.
But Mancini told the Portuguese, who replaced him at Inter Milan in 2008, that his opinion does not matter to the City manager.
"Mourinho is not my chairman. He is not my owner. What Mourinho said is not interesting," Mancini said. "Mourinho wants to talk about everything and for me it is not important."