Pep Guardiola: Manchester City boss agrees contract extension with option of further year until 2027 | Football News

Pep Guardiola has agreed phrases on a brand new one-year contract extension with Manchester Metropolis, Sky Sports activities Information understands.

Sky Sports activities Information additionally understands Guardiola’s new deal consists of the choice of an extra 12 months till 2027.

Manchester Metropolis refused to remark when contacted by Sky Sports activities Information.

The Athletic are reporting that an announcement is predicted within the coming days.

The 53-year-old’s present Manchester Metropolis deal is because of expire on the finish of this season.

The brand new contract would take the Spaniard to over a decade in control of the membership, having joined Metropolis in the summertime of 2016.

Guardiola has gained 18 trophies, together with six Premier League titles and the Champions League at Metropolis.

Hypothesis over Guardiola’s future, rife for a number of months, had elevated significantly after the membership confirmed lately director of soccer Txiki Begiristain can be leaving on the finish of the season. Begiristain, a long-time colleague of Guardiola, is to get replaced by Sporting Lisbon’s Hugo Viana, a former Newcastle participant.

Ending uncertainty over Guardiola’s place would stop additional disruption subsequent summer time at a time when the membership are additionally resulting from compete within the Membership World Cup.

The information, which reportedly might be confirmed later this week, would additionally come at a essential juncture in Metropolis’s season. Hampered by accidents, the champions’ kind has wavered of late with the crew having misplaced their final 4 matches in all competitions, the worst run of Guardiola’s profession.

It has additionally been a tough marketing campaign off the sphere with the membership dealing with 115 costs for alleged breaking of Premier League guidelines following an investigation into their monetary affairs.

Guardiola succeeded Manuel Pellegrini at Metropolis eight years in the past after earlier profitable spells in control of Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

‘Pep felt now was not the fitting time to go away Man Metropolis’

Sky Sports activities Information reporter Ben Ransom:

“I believe the timing of the information has come as a shock. We acquired the sense as this season has gone on that Pep was extra inclined to remain.

“For yet one more 12 months, I believe. In the summertime, I can not say whether or not that was the case. It seems like he is thought lengthy and onerous about this determination, would not it? That quote after he lifted that fourth consecutive Premier League title the place he mentioned he was nearer to leaving than staying.

“That is his ninth season so he is not going to do one other 9, after all not. However for him to say that, to be in that reflective temper, to most likely see this crew and the way in which it is advanced and the place they’re proper now, he had quite a bit to consider.

“His household are nonetheless in Catalonia and Barcelona. That will have been a giant draw, taking him again to Spain. However alongside that’s the job and the membership that he completely loves.

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

“And I believe it is that that is simply tipped him over the sting to need to keep. Particularly his good friendship with Txiki Begiristain. We all know he is leaving on the finish of the season.

“We all know Hugo Viana is coming in this type of sporting director/director of soccer function. That may be a new relationship. It is a new period. It is a new problem. And I believe Pep should have felt that in leaving now, he wasn’t doing the fitting factor by the membership. They want him.

“They want somebody they’ll depend on. And if you have a look at his document, after all they’ll depend on Pep.”