But Mancini, who has blown £300million on building a superstar line-up,
refuses to quit - saying: "For me it is totally clear, I will stay at City
until they fire me.
"I've seen the owner Sheikh Mansour two or three times and we have a good
relationship.
"I also have very frequent contact with the president, Khaldoon Al Mubarak.
"We speak three or four times a week and he often comes to training."
City are fourth in the Premier League despite their mega-bucks outlay on new
players.
But Mancini insists he will eventually get it right - if he is given time.
He told French magazine So Foot: "As a coach I've taken teams that weren't
winning such as Fiorentina, Lazio and Inter and I've won."
Mancini now faces crunch games against West Brom on Sunday and bitter rivals
Manchester United next Wednesday.
His side were sunk by two late Poznan goals in their Group A clash.
And he groaned: "We didn't deserve to lose. Everything is against us and
Poznan were lucky.
"To say the team are against me is all rubbish.
"There were some hard discussions with some players but the team follows me.
"The club have asked me to qualify for next season's Champions League and we
are going well for that.
"We must change this situation. It's difficult but we must pay more attention
in the way we play.
"We can only change things if we stay together.
"We have lost the last three games but, here, we didn't deserve to lose.
That's football."
There was some good news for Mancini as skipper Carlos Tevez flew back from
Argentina to Manchester after his thigh injury and trained at Carrington
yesterday.
