Patrick Vieira Says Manchester City can win Premier League This Season

Patrick Vieira believes there is no reason why Manchester City cannot win for the Premier League this season and Vieira, Manchester City's football development executive, says this season's title race will be the most open there has ever been and "The league is more exciting now than ever and there are six teams that can win it," Vieira told BBC Sport.

Vieira, 35, won 3 Premier League titles with Arsenal and believes City are now in a perfect position to emulate that feat and it will not be easy but I think people can count on City being there right until the end for if you look in the quality of the team and how City have improved over the last few years, we can now challenge to win the Premier League Vieira said.

Patrick Vieira On City Strike Force for a Aguero is a goalscorer and can make a difference in the big games of he will provide belief and confidence, which will help us challenge the best teams and the Tevez is one of the best players in Europe and the world and so it's important to keep him and he stays it will be fantastic and it is important to talk to Balotelli and tell him that he needs to grow up and he makes mistakes like everyone else of the it know him well from Inter Milan and he is a fantastic player we haven't seen the real Balotelli yet.

The former Inter Milan and Juventus midfielder believes City's summer signings will help make the difference between last season's 3rd place finish and challenging in the title and the Sergio Aguero is a goalscorer and can make a difference in the big games of the players look around and see him it will give them the confidence that will help them win said Vieira who spent 18 months playing at the Etihad Stadium before retiring.

Mario Balotelli still misses home and Not Enjoying Life in Manchester and Would Consider a Move to Milan One Day

Mario Balotelli has admitted he does not enjoy life in Manchester and may not stay with City until the end of his 5 year contract and the Italian striker is tied to Manchester City until 2015 after joining in the club in a big money deal from Inter Milan last summer.

Speculation over his future continued throughout Balotelli's first season in the Premier League and he has now admitted that he still suffers from homesickness and the 20-year-old maintains that he has no problem with manager Roberto Mancini or his team mates and it is living in Manchester that he does not enjoy and i am not well in Manchester and i don't like the city, Balotelli told newspaper.

I'm happy with the coach and within the team, but you can't have everything in life and i don't miss Milan, I miss Brescia, my home and i miss my family and my friends, but I think this experience in England will help me grow as an individual and he is refusing to make any guarantees about how long he will the remain at Etihad Stadium and admits and he would consider joining Inter's rivals AC Milan at some point in the future.

International career for the Balotelli was unable to answer call-ups to the Italian national under-15 and under-17 teams as he was still considered to be a Ghanaian immigrant and the On 7 August 2007, five days before his 17th birthday, Balotelli received his 1st senior International call-up for Ghana from their coach Claude Le Roy for a friendly against Senegal at the New Den stadium in London, England, on 21 August 2007.