Roberto Mancini parts company with Galatasaray after just one year

The former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has left Galatasaray by mutual consent. Photograph: Sedat Suna/EPA

Roberto Mancini has parted company with Galatasaray by mutual agreement.
In what appears to be a dispute over the club’s future direction, Mancini told Gazzetta dello Sport: “As a coach I understand the demands of the club. However, when I accepted the coaching post, Gala’s aims were different.”
He added: “In the past eight months, despite enduring a challenging start, I have done my job pushed by passion and by hunger which has resulted in the team qualifying for the Champions League, lifting the Turkish Cup and finishing second in the league.
“It’s with sadness that I leave Istanbul and the club’s fantastic supporters.”
The Turkish side finished runners-up in the Super Lig to Fenerbahce and won the Turkish Cup in the Italian’s first year but there has been constant speculation that he was looking to leave Istanbul.
“Our relationship with the coach Roberto Mancini and his contract of employment, which was signed on 1 October, 2013, has been terminated by mutual agreement,” said Galatasaray.
“We wholeheartedly thank him for his success and achievements and wish him happiness in his next mission.”
Mancini, who had two years remaining on his contract, has been strongly linked with a return to Serie A and his former club Lazio where the coach Edy Reja could only lead them to a disappointing eighth in the league.
As well as managing Lazio, Mancini spent four years with Internazionale from 2004, winning three Serie A titles and two Coppa Italias.
He was sacked by Manchester City last summer despite leading the club to their first league title in 44 years in 2012 and the FA Cup in 2011