Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has refuted claims that Yaya Toure would be leaving the club in his press conference ahead of Saturday’s encounter with QPR.

‘You don’t become a good or bad coach overnight’, said the MCFC Supporters Club spokesman to MM as he stands up for manager Manuel Pellegrini to stay with the club.

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini deemed Champions League qualification ‘not impossible’ despite his side’s 2-1 defeat to CSKA Moscow.

City host CSKA Moscow on Wednesday night in Group E and are currently two points behind Roma, who face a tricky away fixture against giants Bayern Munich.

Come derby day and the whole city is abuzz with red and blue, with excited chatter, with bitten fingernails. It is a day when Manchester looks only to Manchester, as does the world, yet this most Mancunian of fixtures has lost quite a considerable amount of its Mancunian blood.

Man City come into Sunday’s crucial game against United on the back of three straight games without a win, the latest being a lacklustre home defeat to Newcastle United in the Capital One Cup.

Pellegrini played a half-strength side against the Magpies and was duly punished by goals from Rolando Aarons and Moussa Sissoko.

Ahead of Manchester derby, MM analyse City and United players head to head

City take on Alan Pardew’s Newcastle United in the fourth round of the Capital One Cup at The Etihad ahead of Sunday’s game against Manchester United.

City are on the brink of Champions League elimination while the Premier League already seems destined for London pacesetters Chelsea

West Ham have not enjoyed their recent encounters with Man City, including a 9-0 thrashing on aggregate in the Capital One Cup in January as the team prepare to clash on Saturday.