Roberto Mancini insists he won't quit Manchester City

Roberto Mancini has vowed he will not quit Manchester City, telling the mega-rich club's owners that they will have to sack him if they want rid of him.The Italian saw his under-performing City stars suffer their third defeat on the bounce on Thursday night, falling 3-1 to Polish outfit Lech Poznan in the Europa League.The disappointing loss followed league defeats to Arsenal and Wolves coinciding with reports of unrest between the players and the under-fire manager. Time running out: RobertoMancini looks on as his City side slump to their third consecutive defeat, losing to Lech PoznanYet Mancini, whose future looks increasingly uncertain, insisted he has a good relationship with chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak and won't be walking out as he approaches a year into the job.The Italian, who succeeded sacked Mark Hughes as boss last December, said: '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.' Falling down: There are reports of unrest in City's mega-rich squad as they struggled yet againMancini has spent over £200million reshaping City's squad incredibly without any reward so far and knows he must lead them to victory at West Bromwich Albion this weekend followed by a potentially make-or-break crunch Manchester derby next week.He said: 'At the moment everything is against us, we are very unlucky,'I'm disappointed because we didn't deserve to lose this game. Weplayed a good game and we had a lot of chances to win but we mustcontinue to work.'We lost the last three games but that is football, sometimes you play well, you deserve to score but you don't.'  Roberto Mancini defiant despite third straight loss for Manchester CityManchester City Match Zone: Roberto Mancini's men must be United after third straight defeatLech Poznan 3 Man City 1: Mancini woe as late goals punish wayward sideMANCHESTER CITY FC

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