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Graeme Souness fears Manchester City will fall out of the title race after it was confirmed manager Manuel Pellegrini is leaving this summer. Pellegrini announced last Monday that he would depart at the end of the season, with Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola named as his replacement - and then on Saturday City lost a vital top-of-the-table clash to Leicester.Pellegrinis side have dropped to fourth place - six points off the leaders - following the weekend fixtures and Souness says the managerial situation will have an impact on results. He told Sky Sports: Announcing that the manager is going at the start of February isnt a good thing. It cant be a good thing.It wouldnt surprise me if City fall away now. The speculation was there and has been there for years - poor Pellegrini has lived with it for a couple of years. The Times Oliver Kay thinks Manchester Citys announcement was right There will be elements in that dressing room that cant be happy because theyre not playing all the time, so for him to go... theyll be rejoicing in that, quietly.That will have an influence. Its not a healthy situation and its just not something we are used to in this country.Manchester City were comfortably beaten 3-1 by Leicester on Saturday with Pellegrini insisting he was unhappy with the performance. Manuel Pellegrini will leave City in the summer And Souness says thats an indication of a lack of passion among the players.He added: They were playing against a team that were their biggest rivals. If they defeat them on Saturday they were [level on points with them].It wasnt any team they were playing, it was Leicester and if they are going to win it they know they have to do the business on that day. They went in there without any passion or any fight. I think thats disturbing. Graeme Souness They went in there without any passion or any fight. I think thats disturbing. On no level can the management situation have helped on any level on Saturday.However, City are still involved in four competitions this season and fellow Sky Sports pundit Thierry Henry says they can look at the example of Bayern Munich, who won the German League, the German Cup and the Champions League in 2013, despite knowing Jupp Heynckes was leaving.Henry said: We knew he was going to retire and Pep was going to take the job - and they went on to win the treble. Different circumstances because they were already on [a good] run, but I think you have a job to do whoever is going to come or not come next year.You need to perform and the way they played against Leicester wasnt the type of performance you want to see. Also See: Pellegrini: No excuses Man City 1-3 Leicester Chris Bassitt Athletics Jersey . Arsenal failed to take full advantage of its main rivals stumbles on Saturday as substitute Gerard Deulofeu levelled with a hard shot from a tight angle in the 84th minute to give Everton a deserved point. Ahead of a crucial fortnight that will see them play against Napoli in the Champions League, Manchester City and Chelsea, Arsenal leads by five points ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea. Athletics Jerseys 2020 . Klitschkos management company says the bout will be the Ukrainian fighters 25th world championship fight. The 1.83-meter (6-foot) Leapai defeated the previously unbeaten Denis Boytsov in November to become the WBOs mandatory challenger. https://www.cheapathleticsonline.com/ . Its sharpness matched my mind. This was no night to go to sleep. Stitched Athletics Jerseys . The 18-year-old American had five birdies in her bogey-free round for a 17-under total of 196. Lee held the overnight lead but mixed three birdies with two bogeys for a 70. Wholesale Athletics Jerseys . And follow TSN.ca right through Deadline Day for all the updates. From Pierre LeBrun While Anaheim GM Bob Murray said earlier this season he was not going to trade Jonas Hiller despite the fact hes an unrestricted free agent on July 1, some sources have told TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun that Murray might be willing to move another goalie.Steph Houghton will proudly lead Manchester City into the Champions League this season but insists the club’s primary target this year is to win domestic silverware. City, who missed out on the league title to Chelsea on the final day of last season, won the Continental Cup in their inaugural year in 2014 and were runners-up in the same competition last term.Club captain Houghton was joined by England team-mate Toni Duggan to deliver season tickets and autographed shirts to two lucky families and the 27-year-old admits Manchester City want to challenge for the title again this year. The first two seasons have been fantastic for us and we want to build a team that plays attractive football, Houghton told Sky Sports News HQ.We need to get people to come and watch us and to hear that our season ticket sales have nearly doubled is very exciting, and its special for me and Toni to be able to come and deliver some season tickets to two families here. City won the Continental Cup in 2014 As a club were very excited to be playing against the best European teams and the best players in the Champions League but ultiimately on a domestic level we need to compete and thats our focus this year - to compete for all three trophies.ddddddddddddWe were so close to winning the league last year and hopefully this time we can go that one step further.City lost out to Chelsea in the race for last years title despite a final-day 2-1 win over Notts County Ladies, who they face in their FA WSL 1 season opener on Wednesday.It was a big game against them at the end of last season which could have gone one way or the other, Houghton said. The City skipper posing for post-match photos with fans It will be a tough game again but there will be a lot of tough games in this league. We wont take them lightly and we have to respect them.As a team, they also have a lot of internationals in their squad but mainly we have to focus on ourselves and play the football that we have been playing on the fantastic run we have been on since the Womens World Cup. Also See: SportsWomen Latest Show News Latest News SportsWomen Video ' ' '