Guardiola indicators two-year contract extension at Manchester Metropolis | Soccer Information

Pep Guardiola has ended hypothesis about his future as Manchester Metropolis supervisor by signing a brand new two-year deal.

Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola has signed a two-year contract extension that can hold him on the Premier League champions till 2027.

Spaniard Guardiola’s resolution means he’ll spend greater than a decade on the membership he joined in 2016 and has led to a blinding array of silverware, together with six league titles and one Champions League crown. The information shall be welcomed by Metropolis’s followers who might 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 a press release.

“That is my ninth season right here; we’ve skilled so many wonderful occasions collectively. I’ve a very particular feeling for this soccer membership. That’s the reason I’m so joyful 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, nonetheless, and they’re on a four-match dropping streak, the worst since Guardiola arrived.

“I felt I couldn’t go away now, easy as that,” the supervisor added. “We deserve, after 4 defeats in a row, an opportunity to bounce again and attempt to flip the scenario round. We should 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 below contract, I’ll ring my chairman and CEO and say the most effective for the membership proper now’s I’ve to go away,” he added.

“I don’t have that feeling proper now and that’s why I prolonged just a little bit longer.”

Metropolis chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak mentioned in a press release, “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 can proceed to be our gamers and training employees, the tradition of our Membership, and the English sport at massive.”

British media reported on Wednesday that Guardiola had agreed a one-year extension however his tenure will now stretch previous a decade in a large 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 fees in opposition to them.

They’re 5 factors behind leaders Liverpool within the Premier League desk however Guardiola sounded an upbeat observe. “I’ve mentioned this many occasions earlier than, however I’ve every little thing a supervisor might ever want for, and I respect that a lot,” he mentioned. “Hopefully, now we will add extra trophies to those we’ve already gained. That shall be my focus.”