Roberto Mancini hits out at impending cap on players' salaries

Roberto Mancini has made plain his displeasure at the new Premier League reforms involving the impending introduction of a salary inflation cap.

"I do not agree," said Manchester City's manager. "If I am a rich man I want to spend all my money for my team; it's my job. It's only my personal opinion but I don't agree with the idea in general or these rules.

"We need to buy good players. If you want to buy good players you have to spend money. This isn't only for us, it's the same for every team but we will work hard and find a different way."

While clubs with annual player costs of more than £52m a year will now be limited to a £4m salary increase in 2013-14, they must also limit overall deficits to £105m over the next three seasons or face points deductions. These reforms promise to make it effectively impossible for a future billionaire club owner in the shape of City's Sheikh Mansour to lavish a fortune on their team in order to "buy" swift success.

"If another team is better than you, you should accept this but I don't think that, in these past two years, there is a team that has played better than us. Manchester United is a strong team, Chelsea is a strong team but I think, that in the last two years, Manchester City is the team that has played best in the Premier League", The Guardian reports.