Mancini in swoop for former Red Veron

MANCHESTER City coach Roberto Mancini is set to test the loyalty of his team’s keenest fans by trying to sign a 34-year-old former Manchester United player.

Mancini is already close to completing a deal for France captain Patrick Vieira, and now wants to add Juan Sebastian Veron to the City ranks.

Veron is a former team-mate of Mancini’s from their playing days at Lazio and he has offered the player a lucrative one-year deal to see out his career back in Manchester.