The Catalan coach has enjoyed seven hugely successful years with the Premier League champions.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has decided to leave the club when his current contract expires in 2025.
Guardiola has spent seven hugely successful years at the Etihad, having signed an initial three-year deal in the summer of 2016 from Bayern Munich, and according to the UK’s Guardian, he wants to stay on until his current term expires.
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The Catalan is just off from winning City’s first Champions League crown after leading the Premier League champions to a 1-0 win over Serie A giants Inter Milan on Saturday, completing a treble that also includes this season’s FA Cup.
Guardiola cemented his legacy as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, managers of all time by claiming the European trophy, his third in his illustrious managerial career having won it twice with Barcelona.
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He has won five Premier League titles, all of them coming in the last six years as well as four League Cups and two FA Cups.
Guardiola signed a new deal in November, a decision that had been in the balance and which his inner circle were unsure would happen.
When the Catalan arrived at City in summer 2016 there was a strong expectation that he would not extend his stay beyond the three-year term he agreed then.
Before City, Guardiola coached Barcelona and Bayern Munich and it had been thought that after working in England he would want to coach a club in Italy to achieve an ambition to manage in Europe’s four premier domestic competitions.
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