Guardiola stalks Premier bosses as Spaniard plots return

Guardiola stalks Premier bosses as Spaniard plots return to football next summer


Pep Guardiola has told friends he wants to sort out his footballing future in January or February — which will leave one top Premier League manager as a dead man walking.
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is already having to defend himself against suggestions that the arrival of ex-Barcelona staff Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain as chief executive and sporting director means Guardiola’s appointment is also imminent.
But Mancini won’t be alone in looking over his shoulder.

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Roberto Di Matteo may suspect his days at Chelsea are numbered if Roman Abramovich realises that he must move this winter to secure his dream coach.
And even the fading Arsene Wenger might feel it is time to step aside if he knows this is Arsenal’s big chance to recruit Guardiola.
A source close to former Barcelona coach Guardiola said: ‘Pep is definitely coming back into football next season and he wants to have his future decided in this coming January or by February at the latest.

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‘He won’t take over at his next club until the summer. But things have to happen long before then. When you are a top coach, you don’t wait until the summer. You want to see moves being made to start shaping your new club your way. You want transfer targets identified early. Long before the new season starts, Pep will want to know that his future is clear and his new club is on the same wavelength as him.
‘Pep is in New York for a year and you can imagine how good his English will be by the time he comes back into football, so the Premier League is a very strong option for him.’

 

I sincerely hope this is not a serious 'we should maybe go for him' post Rodger? I admire your posts hugely mate but if this is such an invitation then you have lost me?


Not only would he not even consider coming here but in posing the question we would look extremely foolish thinking it.


I'll take it as just an informational exercise and hope I'm right.

 

no its not Cest im in the MON camp and these [out ]posts most were started by a cringeworthy deluded mag Toon Tubbs Toddlers, its meant as a bit of speculation as who will be out Mancini or will it be Chelsea or Arsenal like the article mentions.

 

well if anything the article demonstrates the point "just who could we get that is better than MON". the truth is no-one really. we won't attract a calibre of manager better than him, so our best bet should we move him on would be a punt on an unproven manager who carries no guarantees they will succeed either.


if pep comes to england it will be interesting; i could see him going to any one of united, city, chelsea or arsenal (the last one the most unlikely).

 

Anyone could manage Barcelona. He's done nothing as a manger and wouldnt cut it in a hard job.

 

Might not be everyones take but strangely enough I agree completely with this and Guardiola is more likely to totally flop in the EPL as he is to succeed imo.