Intro:

Man City trained and talked on Tuesday (22nd July) ahead of their pre-season friendly versus Sporting Kansas City.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Pellegrini, Manchester City manager:

"Well, of course, one of out targets this year is to continue farther in the Champion League. Last year was the first time that we arrive to the round of 16. We hope that this year we will see the draw, what draw we have in the stage of group but we are very confident that we can do it better this year. We try to continue as far as we can."

SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Pellegrini, Manchester City manager:

"Well, the squad is not finished. We will see now until the last day that we have the option to change it if we need another one, or if we don't need. That's very important for us, this friendly match. We are seeing two or three different things - maybe some player will go out from our squad, but we have more than one month to decide."

SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Pellegrini, Manchester City manager (on the decision by Manchester City Under-21s to walk off during a friendly in Croatia after a player was allegedly racially abused by an opponent):

"Well, really, I don't know too much what happened, but if Patrick (Vieira) think the determination was the correct determination because I think that Patrick must evaluate what happened and I think that, I am sure that he did the best thing he must do. It is impossible to continue to allow those kind of thing during a football game."