Former Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has revealed that he would have liked to have stayed with the club and regrets not being in the Premier League for longer.
The ex-England boss took charge of City exactly a year after he left his role with the Three Lions but lasted just one season, which occurred just before the club's takeover from Sheikh Mansour.
Following the takeover, the landscape for City changed significantly and Eriksson cannot help but wonder what would have happened if he was to have stayed.
"If you talk about regrets, of course it is. I would have liked to have stayed for longer in the Premier League as at that time and today, the Premier League is the biggest and best league in the world," he told Sky Sports Football.
"There is no competition, they are the best and most important. That would have been a dream, to stay in the club where I was for a couple of years more.
"Who knows what would have happened with Manchester City because less than a year after I left, the new owners came in and life changed totally for City."
Eriksson returned to the Premier League two years later with Leicester City, while he also held jobs with Mexico, the Ivory Coast and the Philippines at international level after his spell in Manchester, along with numerous club roles in China.
