New Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson is comfortable with the pressure which he expects to be under on his return to the game.

The 59-year-old Swede's long-expected appointment at Eastlands was confirmed when he agreed a three-year contract.

It is his first job in management since leaving the England coach's role a year ago - when another failure at a major tournament tarnished his reputation with the English public.

But Eriksson said he was looking forward getting back to working in football and was not too worried about the high-profile job he had taken on.

"I have never worked in the Premier League before so I don't know if I have to prove myself or not," he said.

"I know what I have done in the past and I am looking forward to an exciting job and an exciting season.

"Every time you are a coach, you have pressure whatever team it is. I hope I will have a big pressure as that means I am at a big football club.

"Manchester City is a big club. It is the Premier League - I think it is the best league in the world and if you get an opportunity to work in it you should take it and I did.

"I had some offers in the past - one year out of football some offers were bound to come in - but I am happy I didn't accept them.

"I couldn't care less if I was second, third of fourth choice \[to be City manager], I am here and the job is mine."

Eriksson insisted he felt no desire to prove his critics wrong, saying: "I'm not made like that. I don't feel that I have to have revenge or things like that.

"I know myself. I know what I've done in my years in England and outside England. You cannot take that away from me.

"I want to be judged on football results, I want to be judged as a football manager.  It's good to feel the stress. It's good to feel the pressure. I feel much better then."

The former England coach said his year out of the game had increased his desire to succeed rather than diminish it.

"You can be quite sure that I still have the same hunger, especially when you are living one year without football," he said.

"That is the most stressful time I have had in my life.

"Managers want to be in big clubs and this is a big club. This is an extremely good job.

"Did I really do so bad with England? The only thing you miss in that job is the day-to-day contact with players. It is better to be on the pitch rather than behind a desk."

Eriksson expects to make a number of changes to the playing staff at Eastlands but would not reveal how much of a transfer budget new owner Thaksin Shinawatra had made available.

"I don't think I should care to speak about money," he said.  "I can promise you will see new faces in the squad and the team when the Premier League starts.

"Let's wait until the middle of August and you will see.

"It's a big, big club and I think a lot of football players around the world would like to play for Manchester City, especially as they know this club will be bigger and bigger."

On his current squad, he said: "I think it's good. One thing I think is very, very good is that we have six players from the academy in the squad.  That's important, That's something to build on for the future."