Manchester City midfielder Adam Johnson disappointed club aren’t challenging for Premier League title

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Manchester City star Adam Johnson has expressed his disappointment that the club are not challenging Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal for the Premier League title this season.

The winger believes that his team have the talent available to have mounted a title challenge this season but now will settle for a top four finish and a place in next season’s Champions League.

Johnson has made 38 appearances for City this season but admitted he thought the club would be closer to the top three at this stage of the campaign.

“I’m disappointed that we are not in there the title challenge,” he told reporters.

“Personally, I think we should be and a lot of neutral people think we should be with the squad we have. But there was a couple of iffy results which we should have won.”

Roberto Mancini’s side were expected to mount a challenge this season given the players the club has at it’s disposal but Johnson refused to settle for fourth place despite there only being three games of the season remaining.

“At the start of the season we wanted to be top two and having been in the top four all season we want to keep pushing,” Johnson admitted.

“We might yet finish even higher than fourth. We’ve just got to keep going. But that result at Liverpool didn’t mean we thought Spurs could catch us.

“We knew we still had a few points on them and we’ve pushed that gap to seven, which is massive for us.”

A top four finish would see City take their place in the Champions League next season and Johnson revealed he was excited that the opportunity to test himself on the biggest stage and that he would be fulfilling a boyhood dream in doing so.

“As an Englishman growing up, watching English clubs in the Champions League was massive,” he added.

“It’s the biggest club competition in the world.

“That’s what you dream about when you’re growing up as a kid, playing in massive arenas in massive games. We’ve still got a bit of work to do but it is ours to lose.”