Roberto Mancini told his Manchester City job is safe

Roberto Mancini has been assured he will remain manager of Manchester City despite his failure to lead the team into the Champions League. City's 1-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur last night means the richest club in English football will have to settle for next season's Europa League but the chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, said there are no plans to replace the former Internazionale manager. He and the chief executive, Garry Cook, went into the dressing room after the game to thank the players for their efforts and Khaldoon told them he was confident that, under Mancini, they would be in a better position to break into the Premier League's top four next season. • Match report: Manchester City 0-1 Tottenham • Read Paul Doyle's minute-by-minute report • Richard Williams: Spurs' England contingent shine • Daniel Taylor: City will be all the poorer for failure • In pictures: Tom Jenkins's best images from the game That support will be reiterated in an interview with the club's official website, to be published today, in which Khaldoon expresses his support for Mancini and makes it clear that the club's owners in Abu Dhabi are going to give him more time. Mancini is planning to bring his wife, Federica, to England in September and is renting a house in Manchester after spending his first few months in a city centre hotel. He was asked after yesterday's game whether he was worried about losing his job and replied: "I'm confident. I think I will stay here. Why not? I have worked here five months and you don't start from the roof but the basement. We have worked very well and we are near the roof now. But I am not a magician and I don't have a magic wand. We wanted this [fourth] place, just like Liverpool and Aston Villa, but this is football."