Mancini talks at the Community Shield press conference prior to the Man City v United match

Roberto, can we start with, in terms of the injury situation, Sergio Aguero, with problems with his feet perhaps? No, no, Sergio is OK. He had a problem, but yesterday he did a 20 minute train, but today he will train, I think that will be available. He'll come on the bench. So he should be OK for the community shoot? I don't think he's 100% ready, but he's fit to come on the bench. What's the situation at the moment as far as Carlos Tevez is concerned? Do you think he will come back on Monday? Yeah, yeah. Carlos will come back on Monday because he had 21 days after the Copa America. Only Xhaba is here because if we had a problem with Mika, we had only one right full-back, so Xhaba is here. But for Carlos, the old agreement with him was 21 days after the Copa America. Do you think he ever will play for Manchester City again, or is there a deal in the pipeline for him to go to Inter Milan in exchange for Maicon? No, Carlos is a City player. At the moment we don't have any news about other teams, and Carlos will play for Manchester City. You had plenty of things to say about Mario Balotelli when he was away in America with him showboating, maybe not having a strike at goal when he should have done them. There's been comments he's made about not liking too much about Manchester. How do you feel about his situation? No, but I think he wanted to say that maybe he's missing his family, his friends, probably. Because I think I spoke with him many times, he loves the supporters, he loves the teammates, and he likes to play in Barca's Premier League. Maybe, probably, he's young, he's 21 years old, and maybe he's missing his family. But when you start to play football, you are a professional player of football, and this situation can happen if you want to go to play in another country, it's normal. In terms of this game against Manchester United, officially it will be seen as a friendly, but as far as you're concerned, is it important to win this game and maybe send a message? I don't know this. I think that this one game is totally different from Barca's Premier League, from the FA Final. It's the first official match in the season. It's important because this game will play against United. It's a derby, we want to win, I think, like United. But I don't think that the team, at this moment, is 100% ready to play, like maybe in two months, because we are only the first week in August. I don't think that all the teams are ready. And given the fact that you have now won a trophy, given the fact that you can go and spend £40 million on one player, is this club in a position now to maybe overtake Manchester United in the future? I think that Manchester United, at the moment, are on the top because they are a strong team. They won the last Barca's Premier League, they bought four or five good players, and at the moment they are over us. Roberto, why do you think that Sir Alex Ferguson is making more of this Community Shield? Normally he plays it down, this time he's saying it's a bigger game. I don't know this, maybe because it's a derby, but they play this game a lot of times. For them it's normal to play this game. For us, no, it's the first time after a long time. What I said before, I think they want to win this game because it's important, because it's the first game, like us. We heard again a couple of weeks ago, noisy neighbours. He seems to want to ramp things up a bit. He seems to obviously want to get under your skin, or maybe you got under his skin. What do you think? I think that we are very close, but I think that United has five yards more than us. With that in mind, will there be much more activity? You mentioned that Tevez returns to training, that's still very much up in the air. Aguero's here now, he's going to feature. What more will happen before the end of the window? With Carlos. I think that we need two or three players, and if Carlos stays, I'm happy, because Carlos is a top striker for us. When Carlos arrives on Monday, he starts to train, and when he's ready, he plays. Can you tell us the situation with players that may be leaving, because there are still players with uncertain futures? No. At the moment, the players that are here are good players, but they weren't part of our plans for this year. Just finally, about the Manchester situation with Balotelli and Tevez, they obviously don't have any great luck for the city. You've moved here, how have you found life in Manchester? Is it that terrible? I stay very well with my family. The problem for Mario is because he's alone, because he doesn't have his family here every day. I can understand this, but I don't think that my feeling is good here. And also because we play for Manchester City, and Manchester City is a top team in the Premier League, and we play in Bayern's Premier League, which for me is the best championship in Europe. It's a fantastic experience for us that comes from another country. Roberto, are you confident that Carlos Tevez will be 100% committed to Manchester City on the training pitch and on the pitch when he returns? Because if he doesn't have another team, or play for us, I don't think that there is another chance. Carlos is a professional player. If he doesn't have another team in the next ten days, two weeks, I think that he'll play for us, he'll play seriously, like last year, like always. Do you think he will still be here at the end of this month? I don't know. In one month, anything can happen. But if he stays here, I'm happy. If he leaves... The squad overall, the players you've brought in... No, no, we're missing other players because we don't have many players for all season. This is a problem at the moment. Do you think that it is still possible that you may be able to sign Sadio Mane? It's better that we don't touch this. You've spoken a little bit about Sean Blackford and how you will see him in a couple of days. Sean is a different situation because Sean is a fantastic guy. I love him, I like guys, I like players. But it's difficult for me when I need to decide to send him on the stand, or when I say, Sean, you can play today. And for him, that is difficult. He can't play every game. And I need to speak with him today. We decide. Sean is a totally different situation from the other players. Because if he wants to stay, he can stay. Because he works always very well. He's an important person in the dressing room. But I understand that it's not easy for him to not play every game. I don't know. But I said before that the other players that are here, at the moment, are part of our plans. Roberto, you said last season was a historic moment for City, winning the FA Cup and qualifying for the Champions League. Do you get the feeling that this season could be even better? We want to try this. We want to try to improve last season. But if we want to do this, we should try to win back the Premier League. Or maybe stay at the top until the end of the season. It's difficult to say who can win the title. United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool. But it's important that we... Last year we were there until the end of February. I think that this year it's really important to stay at the top for a long time. And after, in football, it's strange. Everything can happen. It's important that we improve our team. And we try to do the best that we can do in the Champions League. Has last season added more pressure on the club and on yourself to achieve more because of winning the FA Cup and getting into the Champions League? No, no, no. I think that this year... Now, we need to forget what we did last year. What we did last year is finished. At the moment, our concentration should be on our future. This season, we need to improve. And we improve only if we forget what we won last year. At the moment, our targets should be top on the table, Champions League, FA Cup. Play every game to win. And coming up. Roberto, do you have any other injury concerns for this game? No, no, no. We don't have any. Bellamy and Adebayor, would they be in consideration to play? No.