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Pep Guardiola will leave Manchester City this summer after a decade in charge.
After months of speculation over his future, the Spaniard will leave after the 2025/26 season despite having a year left on his contract.
Guardiola would go on to win a cup double in his 10th and final campaign, but missed out on the Premier League title after Man City’s draw at Bournemouth.
Since his appointment in February 2016, the 55-year-old has won everything club football has to offer, transforming and reshaping the landscape of the Premier League as we know it.
During his 10 years at Man City, he managed the club to a remarkable 20 trophies, including six Premier League titles and a Champions League trophy in 2023.
Guardiola will continue his relationship with City Football Group, taking on the role of Global Ambassador. The role will see him provide technical advice to the group’s clubs, working on specific projects and collaborations.
Guardiola’s departure comes as City await the outcome of an investigation into 115 allegations of breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules.
The alleged violations cover the period between 2009 and 2018 Manchester City denies all allegations
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Analysis by Sky Sports’ Laura Hunter:
As the Premier League prepares to say goodbye to one of its greatest teachers of the modern era, the debate will be about who has the right pedigree to replace the great Pep Guardiola. There is no one like him. No tactician on the planet has been able to replicate what Pep has achieved through three different iterations of the Manchester City squad.
So a new path must be created.
Whoever replaces Guardiola is in many ways taking on a similar challenge to succeeding David Moyes when he succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United in 2013. That test was fairly short. But there is a key difference in this situation.
Moyes’ fall was not engineered by him following an icon, he essentially took over an aging playing squad that had reached the end of the road. Only a handful of players – Wayne Rooney and perhaps Robin van Persie – finished the first season without Fergie with any real achievements.
But City’s current squad is at a different stage of its evolution. It may say goodbye to club legends Bernardo Silva and John Stones this summer but the nucleus of talent left behind is working fine. That can’t be a bad thing if you inherit a team of pep. The average age of the group is such that it should only get better.
Arne Slott has already bucked the trend, proving with Liverpool last season what is possible when the combination of players is right. He won the Premier League with a team Jurgen Klopp assembled and prepared to win.
With the right coach in charge and some help in the summer window, there’s no reason why this City side shouldn’t be in prime position to at least compete for something similar.
