The Daily Mail: Guardiola to step down next summer (not confirmed)

Seem to get this same story every season.

Doubt it.
 
Yeah we get this story all the time, then he signs a new contract.
 
Think this time he might leave. He is not someone that stays for long periods, so he stayed long enough. Winning the treble/CL, i think he is done. He has no ambition to dominate long.
 
Ha ha Mainoo and Co broke him. That plus the impending charges and that noone gives a toss about Chity.
 
115 charges hearing in October 2024, with most expected to be proven. Sanctions expected to be handed down in summer 2025.

Convenient for him to step off the sinking ship just as it capsizes out of the football league.
 
was expecting this to be honest what with all the charges and wotnot
 
Probably wants 5 fullbacks this summer at £60m a piece. Will probably get them, too, and a new contract.
 
Garnacho's Shoelaces said:
115 charges hearing in October 2024, with most expected to be proven. Sanctions expected to be handed down in summer 2025.

Convenient for him to step off the sinking ship just as it capsizes out of the football league.
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Is that confirmed? First I’ve heard of any dates.
 
Omar jumping to United. City employees looking for work at Old Trafford. Odds down from 5000/1 to 25/1 for City to be relegated. FA saying their case is coming soon. Pundits actually fecking mentioning the 115 charges finally. I think old Pep is jumping off this thing. Thought it last week.

Its perfect for him, because all he needs to say is he won all their trophies after the final charge was registered in 2018. Its clear lies, but football is all about spin. So there's a way out for him.
 
Gaughan is one of City’s most reliable journalists, if he says it then Guardiola’s likely already informed the club.
 
This time it's different. A number of reasons :-

1. The looming threat of retrospective punishment for things he's accomplished in the time that he has been there is a massive demotivator.
2. Operating as head coach during a time in which City could be found guilty would be a difficult burden to weather.
3. Key executive and administrative staff leaving City undermines the infrastructure that he's been comfortable working under for so long.
4. He has achieved pretty much everything he could possibly want to achieve, and has said so after the treble win.
5. After so long in this country, it is natural for someone to long for the familiarity of their native home.
6. Having an enduring and ever-present rival in Klopp kept it interesting for him, and without Klopp, perhaps the competitive drive as left.
7. His brother running Girona seems to me like a natural transition into getting involved with them in some capacity.
 
Arteta will likely go for it if city get off lightly with the 115

Otherwise it’ll be Shaun Goater
 
izec said:
Think this time he might leave. He is not someone that stays for long periods, so he stayed long enough. Winning the treble/CL, i think he is done. He has no ambition to dominate long.
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He's been at City for a long period.
 
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Just totally coincidental timing from Pep...... (If True)
 
First Berrada, now Pep. I'd like to read something in to that and genuinely believe they are jumping a sinking ship and they know what's coming.
 
Meant to be a reliable one for City news, and do believe it this time. He's been here a long time now and imagine he is getting a bit bored/fancies a change. Though I feel he wants to go out winning, so lets see
 
I’ve assumed that the time of him leaving would be quite soon after the Treble was won. You can’t really top an achievement like that. Even Ferguson was going to call it quits not too long after the 99 Treble, before a dramatic U-turn.

I’ve also thought that when he left, the likes of Begiristain wouldn’t be too far behind either and god help the people at City trying to find a backroom combination of that calibre again. Abu Dhabi got lucky in some respects that the 2009-2012 Barcelona team happened as they were building stuff because they just lifted their backroom over to them, and they’d have still been stuck with people like Garry Cook and Brian Marwood in prominent positions.
 
Most succesful period of his career and nobody gives a feck. A single CL win with Bayern would have done more for his reputation and legacy than leaving this fake club as the charges start hitting.
 
To those of you who are questioning the source - he might have announced it at the parade but there’s no one there to confirm.
 
This would be great. It's a shame he even managed them in the first place.
 
Surely they’ll just offer him another football club or something insane under the table to keep him?
 
Believable. He sounded kind of jaded when talking about continuing earlier this season. Charges looming. The team he's got now is at its peak, but the next step will be to replace it and that will require a couple of seasons to push through. His old rival Klopp has stepped away. Lots of good reasons to think this might feel like the right moment.

Of course, until he actually goes, he could change his mind at any point. So even if it's true that he intends to leave, it's far from certain it'll go through. But at the end of the day, he'll leave eventually. Seems as feasible a time as any.
 
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