Official: Man City Confirm Pep Guardiola Will Take Over As Manager Next Season

Chris Wright

1st, February 2016

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Not that it needed much confirming, but Manchester City have emitted an official statement via their club website to announce that Pep Guardiola will take over as head coach next season.

City’s statement reads thus:

Manchester City can confirm that in recent weeks it has commenced and finalized contractual negotiations with Pep Guardiola to become (head coach) for the 2016/17 EPL season onwards.

The contract is for three years. These negotiations were a re-commencement of discussions that were curtailed in 2012.

Out of respect for Manuel Pellegrini and the players, the Club wishes to make its decision public to remove the unnecessary burden of speculation.

Manuel, who is fully supportive of the decision to make this communication, is entirely focused on achieving his targets for the season ahead and retains the respect and commitment of all involved with the leadership of the Club.

You’ve got to give it to Kicker. They were right all along.

As we’ve previously stated, the style clash may prove to be an interesting issue. City’s laconic team are almost the embodiment of Pellegrini’s softly-spoken, low key approach – sitting at total odds with Guardiola’s frantic, manic-obsessive tweaking.

Yaya ain’t going to last five minutes.

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8 Comments

  1. Henrique says:

    What now United ? Will you keep LVG ??????????

  2. Haywired says:

    Could get even tastier if Mourinho goes to United.

  3. syndex says:

    Why would the players bother to play for him now it seems mad

  4. Maria says:

    Syndex

    1) They are professional footballers with no beef with Pellegrini who can still win multiple trophies.
    2) You can be sure Guardiola will be keeping tabs on the team, each of them needs to prove they are worth keeping next season.

    Why do you think they wouldn’t bother playing?

  5. Dinzinger says:

    He was talking about Mourinho ^^^

  6. Dinzinger says:

    ;) Just kidding.

  7. Bruno says:

    Actually I don’t think he’s thaaaaat good. Very good but not a genius (despite his record). Even the average Luis Henrique is winning everything with Barcelona, their generation of players is just superb. Guardiola made a lot of signings at Barca and only 3 of them worked out (Pique, Alves and Mascherano). What about the money spent on shit signings like Keita, Pinto, Cáceres, Hleb, Henrique, Ibrahimović ($46 MILLION plus Eto’o), Maxwell, Keirrison ($16 MILLION), Chygrynskiy ($25 MILLION), Afellay and Adriano? Also, at Bayern, he has everything a manager can possibly dream of and still can’t win the Champions League (which is the only real challenge for Bayern).

    To put in a few words, Guardiola needs fantastic players to win (I would need too because I am not very good). Ferguson and Mourinho, for example, could win with Darron Gibson, John O’Shea, Anderson, Diego Millito and Paulo Ferreira in their team. That is the difference between a manager who can make weak players champions (**a genius**) and someone who needs Messi and Robben and Muller and Iniesta to win. It is easy to win at Barca with Messi/Xavi/Iniesta, then you go to Bayern and manage a treble winning team and then you go to City with arab money to buy the world.

    I think he’s good, don’t get me wrong. But could Guardiola put that Man United side of 2011 with Chicarito, Fabio, Rafael, Park, Valencia, old Giggs and old Scholes in a Champions League final? Could he win the treble with Inter? I don’t think so. That is why he’ll be at City. Unlimited resources, a squad that is already fantastic and freedom. After City, we’ll see him in Paris, I’m sure.

    Guardiola is just a good driver with fantastic cars. He’s no Ayrton Senna.

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