ROBERTO MANCINI has admitted that he could lose his job but said that even if he were sacked as Manchester City manager he would still admire Khaldoon al-Mubarak and that any successor would be lucky to work with the club’s chairman.

Mancini does not believe he will lose his position even if City fail to win the championship, and of his relationship with Mubarak the Italian said: “My relationship with Khaldoon is fantastic. If he sacked me at the end of the season or next year, I would say that every manager who works with Khaldoon is very lucky. He is a really good man. But I don’t have this problem because I will continue in my job. I’m sure that this club has arrived at the top. With two or three more players after this year, this club will start to win, and when it starts to win it will win two or three titles every year. Now it has arrived.

“I know you can lose this job. But it’s important to me that the squad have improved a lot over the last two years. We are progressing. I don’t decide this [my future]. I do the best for my job . .”

City may be eight points behind Manchester United when they kick off at Arsenal tomorrow if the champions defeat QPR earlier in the day, yet Mancini brushed off those questioning his future.

“I have a one-year contract. I started this job two-and-a-half years ago and since that moment we have improved.”