Manuel Pellegrini is convinced he will remain as manager of Manchester City next season.

Khaldoon al-Mubarak, the City chairman, spent time with Pellegrini on Sunday when City played their final home match of the season. 

Senior sources have signalled there is no expectation the manager will be removed.

City ended the season strong with a second place finish behind Chelsea.

In analyzing the season Pellegrini is unsure if the decline in goalscoring is a fundamental reason why his team came up short as City were again the Premier League’s top scorers with 83 strikes, 10 more than Chelsea. In last year’s title-winning campaign 102 were registered.

Pellegrini said: “It’s not so easy to make that analysis because we were the highest scoring team this year and we didn’t win the title. Maybe we had the highest scorer in the Premier League [Sergio Agüero] and the goalkeeper [Joe Hart] with the most clean sheets and the best goal difference but we didn’t win the title. It’s also important to concede less goals because there are a lot of points that you lose through just one goal.”

He believes City must develop more ruthlessness against teams near the bottom. “Maybe we will continue being a high-scoring team but we must be a more consistent team that doesn’t lose points against teams in the relegation positions,” he said.