Manchester City announced this Thursday the two-year renewal of its coach, Pep Guardiola.
The 53-year-old Spanish coach, who joined City in 2016, will remain at the club until June 2027.
His current contract expired in June of next year and, as he did in 2020 and 2022, his renewal was signed during the month of November.
Despite the departure of Txiki Begiristain, also a Spaniard, the club’s sporting director since 2012, Guardiola has decided to stay at City, once the door to the English team was closed, which contacted him last summer but decided to leave. Thomas Tuchel for his greater availability.
Now without Begiristain, Guardiola will work from next summer with the Portuguese Hugo Viana, already confirmed as City’s new sporting director and who comes from Sporting Lisbon.
In his years at City, Guardiola has won 18 titles, including six Premier League titles, four of them consecutive, as well as the club’s first Champions League.
With this renewal, Guardiola aims to spend more than a decade at City, surpassing the four years he spent at Barcelona and the three he directed at Bayern Munich.
The agreement also comes in the tenth week of the trial between City and the Premier League for the 115 financial irregularities of which the league accuses it. The verdict of the litigation will be known in early 2025.
