• Manager expected to agree a deal worth around £5m a year
• List of summer transfer targets also set be discussed
Roberto Mancini is in talks with Manchester City's owners and is expected to sign a new contract soon. The Italian is in Abu Dhabi to discuss the champions' summer transfers and he will also negotiate fresh personal terms.
Mancini earns £3.5m a year and has 12 months remaining on his deal; the City manager and Khaldoon al-Mubarak, the chairman, are expected to agree a three- or four-year contract worth around £5m annually.
Mancini is in Abu Dhabi with David Platt, the first-team coach, Brian Marwood, the director of football administration, and the acting chief executive, John MacBeath, for talks that are being led by Mubarak and which focus on a list of targets headed by Robin van Persie, the Arsenal striker, and Lille's Belgian forward Eden Hazard.
City's long-term planning has also taken Attilio Lombardo, one of Mancini's coaches, to Argentina, where the Italian watched Lucas Ocampos and Ezequiel Cirigliano, two River Plate youngsters.
Lombardo saw the pair in training and attended River Plate's Primera B game with Instituto on 21 April. Ocampos, 17, is a striker and the 20-year-old Cirigliano a midfielder. Read More
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