Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola has signed a two-year contract extension that may preserve him on the membership till 2027, the Premier League champions mentioned on Thursday.
Spaniard Guardiola’s resolution 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 will likely be welcomed by Metropolis’s followers who may need feared the Guardiola period was drawing to an in depth along 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; we’ve skilled so many wonderful instances collectively. I’ve a very particular feeling for this soccer membership. That’s the reason I’m so completely happy to be staying for one more 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 shedding streak, the worst since Guardiola arrived.
“I felt I couldn’t depart now, easy as that,” the supervisor added. “I feel we deserve, after 4 defeats in a row, an opportunity to bounce again and attempt to flip the scenario round.
“I feel we need to be right here. I’m not boastful to say, nevertheless it’s the reality.
“I get pleasure from being right here. I like being the supervisor of this membership. The second I can’t have that feeling, even beneath contract, I’ll ring my chairman and CEO and say the very best for the membership proper now could be I’ve to depart,” he added.
“I don’t have that feeling proper now and that’s why I prolonged slightly 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 pondering 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 workers, the tradition of our Membership, and the English recreation 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 increase for the membership which is beneath investigation for greater than 100 alleged breaches of the Premier League’s monetary guidelines over a nine-year interval.
Metropolis deny all the costs towards them.
They’re 5 factors behind leaders Liverpool within the Premier League desk however Guardiola sounded an upbeat word.
“I’ve mentioned this many instances earlier than, however I’ve every thing a supervisor may ever want for, and I respect that a lot,” he mentioned.
“Hopefully, now we will add extra trophies to those we’ve already received. That will likely be my focus.”
