When he gets that feeling, Roberto Mancini prescribes some miracle healing.
The former Manchester City manager is currently in charge of Inter Milan, and up to last year, had Stoke player Xherdan Shaqiri at his disposal.
The ‘Alpine Messi’ made a move away from the San Siro last summer however, and has been living it up at the Britannia with Jonathan Walters and Glenn Whelan ever since.
Many felt Inter Milan were foolish to let him go, but perhaps a story about how they treat medical issues under Mancini, as revealed by Shaqiri, may explain it.
The former Bayern Munich man gave an interview to a Swiss newspaper Blick over the weekend and he explained how at one stage, Roberto Mancini didn’t bother with your traditional R.I.C E treatment for a hamstring injury, and instead thought some alternative medicine might help.
As Shaqiri explains things are done a little differently at Stoke:
“One time I was injured and I needed to be ready for a game. They told me that there was a miraculous healer who lived in the mountains. I drove for half an hour in a car to have been manipulated by an old man, but he did not help me at all.
“This is also why Stoke City was the best choice: here there are seven physiotherapists, who will examine me everyday: hips, feet, legs. Everything in a professional manner”.
God only knows what he prescribes for a groin strain.
