Guardiola: Manchester City coach renews contract for two years Football News

Manchester Metropolis have confirmed that Guardiola has agreed a brand new two-year contract extension.

The 53-year-old’s earlier contract with Manchester Metropolis expires on the finish of this season.

The brand new deal brings the Spaniard to greater than a decade on the helm of the membership, having joined Manchester Metropolis in the summertime of 2016.

Guardiola, who received 18 trophies throughout his time on the Etihad, together with six Premier League titles and the Champions League, admitted that whereas he had been contemplating leaving on the finish of the season, Metropolis’s current four-game dropping streak was the outcome. A part of the rationale for the crew’s decline.

“I’ve considered it rather a lot for the reason that begin of the season and there have been moments the place, I’ve to be trustworthy, I assumed this needs to be the final one as a result of everyone seems to be…” he instructed the membership’s web site.

“However on the similar time, when the scenario got here up and the issues we had final month, I felt now was not the time to depart and let the membership down and I felt I had to do this.

“Do not ask me why. Possibly 4 defeats was the rationale, I felt like I could not depart. I felt just like the membership nonetheless wished me, or the truth that we have been collectively, that is why we signed.

“Manchester Metropolis means rather a lot to me. That is my ninth season right here; we’ve skilled many nice instances collectively. I’ve a really particular feeling about this soccer membership.

“That is why I am completely satisfied to remain for 2 extra seasons.

“Thanks to everybody who continues to have religion and help in me – the proprietor, chairman Carlton, Phelan, Txiki, the gamers and naturally the followers… everybody related to Manchester Metropolis. It has been an honour, a pleasure and a form of privilege.

“I’ve stated it many instances earlier than however I’ve the whole lot a supervisor may want for and I am very grateful. Hopefully now we are able to add extra trophies to those we have already received. That can be my focus.”

Hypothesis over Guardiola’s future has been rampant for months and has elevated considerably after the membership confirmed director of soccer Tesiki Begiristain will depart on the finish of the season.

Guardiola’s long-term ally Begiristain can be changed by former Newcastle participant Hugo Viana at Sporting Lisbon.

The top of uncertainty over Guardiola’s place may stop additional disruption to the membership’s participation within the Membership World Cup subsequent summer season.

The information comes at a vital time for Manchester Metropolis’s season. Troubled by accidents, the championship crew has been in shaky kind not too long ago. The crew has misplaced all of its final 4 video games. That is the worst efficiency in Guardiola’s profession.

It has additionally been a troublesome season, with the membership dealing with 115 costs for alleged breaches of Premier League guidelines following an investigation into their funds.

Guardiola took over from Manuel Pellegrini at Manchester Metropolis eight years in the past after profitable spells at Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

In the meantime, Metropolis chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak stated he was delighted with the coach’s determination to remain in Manchester for one more two years.

“Like each Manchester Metropolis fan, I am delighted that Pep’s journey with Manchester Metropolis will proceed; permitting his dedication, ardour and modern considering to proceed to form the panorama of soccer,” he instructed the membership’s web site.

“His thirst for progress and success stays insatiable and our gamers and training workers, the tradition of our membership and the English recreation as a complete will proceed to be his direct beneficiaries.

“This extension will give Pep ten years in command of Manchester Metropolis and the chance to proceed to rewrite managerial data.”

‘Pep feels now isn’t time to depart Manchester Metropolis’

Sky Sports activities Information reporter Ben Ransom:

“I believe the timing of this information is shocking. Because the season continues, we’ve a sense that Pep is extra inclined to remain.

“That is his ninth season, so he is not going to play one other 9 seasons, after all not. However for him to be in a reflective temper and possibly see this crew and the way in which it is developed and The place they have been now, he had rather a lot to consider.

“His household remains to be in Catalonia and Barcelona. If he may come again to Spain that may be an enormous attraction. However past that there’s a job and a membership that he completely loves.”

“Pep has loyalty to Manchester Metropolis, we have seen that. He clearly loves this job. He loves the problem of attempting to win the Premier League.

“I believe that made him wish to keep very a lot. Particularly his good friendship with Txiki Begiristain. We knew he was going to depart on the finish of the season.”

“We all know that Hugo Viana goes to tackle this sporting director/director of soccer position. It is a new relationship. It is a new period. It is a new problem. I believe Pep will need to have felt that Come on, depart now, he is not the suitable factor the membership wants him to do.

“They want somebody they will depend on. If you have a look at his report, they will actually depend on Pep.”