DAfter winning the last Premier League, the fourth in a row and the sixth in the last seven seasons, Pep Guardiola questioned his continuity at Manchester City beyond his current contract, which ends on June 30, 2025.
“The reality is that I am closer to leaving than staying. We have spoken with the club and my feeling now is that I want to stay. I will follow the next campaign and during that course we will talk,” pointed out the Catalan coachwho landed at the Etihad in 2016 and who in his eight years as ‘sky blue’ has taken the club to another dimension, winning 17 titles, including six Premiers, two FA Cups, one Champions League… and the treble of 2023.
Guardiola’s 17 titles with City
- 6 Premier Leagues: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 y 2024
- 2 FA Cups: 2019 and 2023
- 4 League Cups: 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021
- 2 Community Shields: 2018 y 2019
- 1 Champions League: 2023
- 1 European Super Cup: 2023
- 1 Club World Cup: 2023
Some words that caused an earthquake… and that City president, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, tried to ‘calm down’. “We’ve had this conversation many times before over the years. Pep has always been fully committed to this club and to every contract he has signed.. “This decision about his future is always a decision we will make together and I have no doubt that we will find, as we always have, the right solution that works for him and for us,” highlighted the top ‘celeste’ leader.
We will find, as we have always done, the right solution that works for Guardiola and for us
Guardiola put an expiration date on his continuity after eight years of wear and tear at City and in the Premier League that he had never experienced before (at Barcelona he directed for four seasons and at Bayern for three)… but he still has at least one season of challenges left without Klopp. as a great rival in Liverpool. “Everything is already done, I don’t know what will motivate me to continue, but I have a contract,” reflected Pep, who is already planning 2024-25.
Guardiola: “Everything is done, I don’t know what will motivate me to continue, but I have a contract”
And for this, He and Txiki Begiristain (director of football) will travel to Abu Dhabi this week to meet with Al Mubarak and the City staff to lay the foundations for a course in which they will defend their crown in the Premier and attempt a new assault on the Champions League. A campaign that may not only be Guardiola’s last at the Etihad, since Begiristain, who arrived in Manchester in 2012 along with Ferran Soriano (CEO) from Barcelona, could also leave the club with him in 2025.
De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Ederson…
Both have been, along with Pep, the architects of a City that is the king of the Premier and one of the rivals to beat in Europe. Txiki and Guardiola could be facing their last year at the Etihad. But first, in Abu Dhabi, they will plan a campaign as players like De Bruyne enter the final year of their contract (there is already talk of Saudi Arabia) and others like Bernardo Silva or Ederson have to resolve their future. There is ‘work’.
