Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola has signed a two-year contract extension that may hold him on the membership till 2027, the Premier League champions mentioned on Thursday.
Spaniard Guardiola’s choice means he’ll spend greater than a decade on the membership he joined in 2016 and has led to a stunning array of silverware, together with six Premier League titles and one Champions League crown.
The information shall be welcomed by Metropolis’s followers who may need feared the Guardiola period was drawing to a detailed together with his present deal expiring on the finish of this season.
“Manchester Metropolis means a lot to me,” the 53-year-old, who beforehand had profitable spells at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, mentioned in an announcement.
“That is my ninth season right here; now we have skilled so many superb instances collectively. I’ve a extremely particular feeling for this soccer membership. That’s the reason I’m so glad to be staying for an additional two extra seasons.”
Guardiola joined Abu Dhabi-owned Metropolis in 2016 and has turned them right into a trophy-winning machine.
He has guided Metropolis to 18 main trophies and established a model of soccer that’s admired throughout the globe. This season has introduced a slight dip in kind, nevertheless, and they’re on a four-match dropping streak, the worst since Guardiola arrived.
“I felt I couldn’t depart now, easy as that,” the supervisor added. “I believe we deserve, after 4 defeats in a row, an opportunity to bounce again and attempt to flip the state of affairs round.
“I believe we should be right here. I’m not boastful to say, but it surely’s the reality.
“I get pleasure from being right here. I like being the supervisor of this membership. The second I cannot have that feeling, even below contract, I’ll ring my chairman and CEO and say one of the best for the membership proper now could be I’ve to go away,” he added.
“I don’t have that feeling proper now and that’s why I prolonged somewhat bit longer.”
Metropolis chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak mentioned in an announcement, “Like each Metropolis fan, I’m delighted that Pep’s journey with Manchester Metropolis will proceed; permitting his dedication, ardour and revolutionary considering to proceed to form the panorama of the sport.
“His starvation for enchancment and success stays insatiable and the direct beneficiaries of that may proceed to be our gamers and training employees, the tradition of our Membership, and the English sport at giant.”
British media reported on Wednesday that Guardiola had agreed a one-year extension however his tenure will now stretch previous a decade is an enormous enhance for the membership which is below investigation for greater than 100 alleged breaches of the Premier League’s monetary guidelines over a nine-year interval.
Metropolis deny all the costs in opposition to them.
They’re 5 factors behind leaders Liverpool within the Premier League desk however Guardiola sounded an upbeat be aware.
“I’ve mentioned this many instances earlier than, however I’ve every part a supervisor might ever want for, and I respect that a lot,” he mentioned.
“Hopefully, now we are able to add extra trophies to those now we have already received. That shall be my focus.”
