Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has laughed off talk he tried
to recruit Argentina midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron to his
Eastlands squad.
The Italian tactician revealed how an innocent phone call to
his former team-mate and former Manchester United man, was at the
root of the story.
But Mancini is adamant that Veron, now 34 and back in
Argentina as skipper of his first club Estudiantes, was never in
his list of January targets.
Mancini told the club's website: "Veron is my friend. I
played with him at Sampdoria, and at Lazio, and when I was the
manager at Inter he played for me.
"I called him just to say hello and as we talked I joked with
Seba, 'If you want, you can come to play for City', but I was only
joking and he knew that. He plays for Estudiantes and is very happy
there. It was never a possibility for us."
