Pep Guardiola has agreed a brand new one-year contract with Manchester Metropolis in an enormous enhance for the Premier League champions, the brand new phrases taking his tenure to the summer time of 2026.
Following Metropolis’s 2-1 FA Cup last defeat by Manchester United in Might, Guardiola took time over the summer time to contemplate his future, with the Guardian reporting then he was minded to take a call someday this winter.
The supervisor’s final two contract extensions have been additionally agreed in November when travelling to Abu Dhabi, the house nation of the membership’s proprietor, Sheikh Mansour. Forward of Metropolis’s 2-1 loss at Brighton on 9 November, their final sport earlier than the worldwide break, Guardiola was requested if he had any plans to go there once more through the worldwide break.
He mentioned: “No. I mentioned many occasions, I received’t speak about it [a new contract]. When it occurs, it is going to occur. We’re in contact commonly.”
Metropolis have misplaced their final 4 matches, the primary time Guardiola has overseen such a run in his 15-year managerial profession. They’re second within the league with 23 factors from the opening 11 matches, 5 factors behind the leaders, Liverpool.
The membership can be defending itself at an impartial fee towards the greater than 100 fees of alleged monetary wrongdoing introduced towards it by the Premier League. Metropolis deny the entire fees and Guardiola’s choice signifies a renewed vitality and need to deliver extra success to the membership he took over in summer time of 2016.
It additionally suggests Guardiola has not been influenced by the choice of Metropolis’s director of soccer, Txiki Begiristain, to depart in the summertime. Begiristain, a former teammate of Guardiola at Barcelona and an in depth pal, can be changed within the shut season by Hugo Viana, who occupies the identical function at Sporting.
Guardiola is already probably the most profitable supervisor in Metropolis’s historical past. In eight years on the membership, the 53-year-old has guided Metropolis to 6 Premier League titles, together with the final 4 in succession, which is a report. He additionally claimed Metropolis’s inaugural Champions League in 2023, plus two FA Cups and 4 League Cups.
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On Saturday Guardiola goals to arrest the four-game shedding sequence when Tottenham go to the Etihad Stadium for the 5.30pm kick-off.
After the 4-1 defeat at Sporting within the Champions League, the third Metropolis loss within the run, Guardiola mentioned: “Will probably be a troublesome season – we knew that from the beginning. However that is what it’s. I prefer it, I like it, I wish to face it and carry my gamers and take a look at it.”
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