Man City primary Begiristain challenges coaching rift with Mancini as his influence increases - Daily Mail

UPDATED: 17:30 EST, 23 March 2013 Birmingham Cityas youth coaches are having to publish detailed Ofsted-style reports on every work out below first-team level as technical manager Txiki Begiristain strengthens his hold on the team. With the future of boss Roberto Mancini undecided, former Barcelona executive Begiristain, 48, is raising his powerbase regardless of who is in charge of the firstAteam next season. Therefore Begiristain can check it for content and value cityas instructors, a lot of whom were hired by Mancini, have already been told to make plans for each practice. He wants every City area from Under-15s to the development group, who play in the Under-21 Premier League, to talk about a typical model based onA Barcelonaas tiki-taka game. Rift: Roberto Mancini has seen Txiki Begiristain's effect grow at Birmingham Town It has led to some anxiety among team at the clubas Carrington instruction ground, who feel torn between loyalty to Mancini and being forced to please Begiristain. The over-riding priority of Begiristain and chief executive Ferran Soriano is always to hire the most effective young adolescent participants on earth, both having worked atA Barcelona whenever a young Lionel Messi appeared through the ranks of these popular finishing college, La Masia. Town have themselves spent A150million on a new school named The Etihad Campus that will start next year on exactly the same site as the main arena. Forces: CEO Ferran Soriano (left) and manager of football Txiki Begiristain (right) are a lot more powerful But, their perspective does not automatically suggest Mancini, 48, will leave come july 1st, though that will be determined by how a Italian and his assistants are designed for a decrease in power. After Cityas second right Champions League failure, there is a realization that the club will need to sign one or more A-list star this summer along the lines of Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani of Napoli. Mancinias first decision, Brazilian Neymar of Santos, is also being chased but is anticipated to join Barcelona. Soriano, 45, described Mancini as aa championa in an interview the other day nevertheless they want him to concentrate solely on coaching the initial group and not restrict the clubas shift or bigger coaching plan. Target: City require a top class striker like Napoli's Edinson Cavani

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