Both Milan clubs are ready to launch £20million bids for Balotelli.
Selling Balotelli would solve one problem for City, club accept they are likely to have to take a slight loss on the £24m they paid Inter for the forward two years ago.
Asked how City fans would feel if United won the title therevMancini said: “I don’t know this.
“I just know that now we have 15 points more than we had at this stage last year.
“So I can say we did well. Now it’s clearly difficult for us to win the title.
“But we hope they can lose three or four points before the derby and after that we’ll see.
“It’s not over. In football it’s never finished. For this reason, I believe always.
“But we did a fantastic season and we need to finish well.”
“In the last month we’ve had problems with player injuries,” said Mancini. “We lost Kompany and Lescott together to injuries for four weeks.
“We also lost Sergio Aguero for two difficult games. But we need to improve more. I want to carry on improving this team, why not?
“For 29 games we did very well. In the last two or three weeks we’ve done so-so.
“Maybe this is something we can improve on next year. But I repeat, six games to the end. 18 points. Never say never.”
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