Rijkaard co-favourite to coach Manchester City

British newspaper The Times claims that Barcelona manager (45) is, together with Portuguese national team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, on top of Manchester City's wish list. Rijkaard and Scolari are being lined up as high-profile candidates to succeed Sven-Göran Eriksson when the latter is sacked by Manchester City at the end of the season. Russian national team coach Guus Hiddink and Croatia national team coach Slaven Bilic are also option that are looked at.

Although Eriksson has achieved the objective of a top-ten finish this season, Manchester City president Thaksin Shinawatra is understood to have told him that he is not the man to take the club forward during talks on Sunday, prompting the Swede to inform his players at a meeting the next day that he would be dismissed after ten months in the job. Eriksson, who has two years left on his contract, has said that he will not resign himself.

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