Monday, October 14, 2024, 18:53
Pep Guardiola‘s future is up in the air. The Catalan coach, whose contract with <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/premier-league-manchester-citys-turnover-for-the-first-time-higher-than-manchester-uniteds/" title="Premier League – Manchester City's turnover for the first time higher than Manchester United's”>Manchester City expires next summer, assured the Italian channel Nove that he has still made a decision about whether or not he will continue taking the reins of the ‘skyblue’ team next season and acknowledged being “tired” in some moments, although he clarified that he continues to enjoy his job at the head of the team that has won six of the eight Premier Leagues in which the Spanish coach has been coached.
«I swear to you, if I had decided whether I would stay or leave I would tell you. But it can be, anything can be in life,” Guardiola told Fabio Fazio, host of the program ‘Che tempo che fa’, in an appearance that once again fuels the rumor mill about the coach’s future.
At 53 years old, and after nine successful seasons in charge of Manchester City, a team with which he has won a total of 18 titles, including a Champions League and six Premier trophies, Guardiola is not sure of the direction his career will take from next summer and keeps City uneasy, which has an open process in which up to 115 charges are charged for financial irregularities allegedly committed between 2009 and 2023 and is preparing to begin a sporting transition with the already confirmed departure of Txiki Begiristain, who He arrived as sports director at the Mancunian club in October 2012, and the possible one of Guardiola, who is tempted to manage a national team and is being closely monitored by the English Federation.
Contacts with England
The Times assured this Monday that leaders of the English Federation would have already maintained the first informal contacts with Guardiola’s entourage in order to explore whether he would be willing to take charge of the ‘Three Lions’, temporarily commanded by Lee Carsley after the departure by Gareth Southgate at the end of the European Championship in Germany. «It is not even true that I will be the next England manager. If I had decided, I would say it… I don’t know either, anything can happen,” explained Guardiola on Italian television, who has renewed his contract three times since he landed at City in 2016 but has dropped his predisposition to become a coach one day.
«I would like to have the experience of living a World Cup, a Euro Cup, a Copa América, whatever. I would like to experience a great national team competition. “I don’t know when, in five, ten or fifteen years, but I would like to play in a World Cup as a coach,” Guardiola said in an interview with ESPN last February, who in addition to being a future England coach has also dreamed of coaching. to Brazil.
