Manchester City are hopeful that Pep Guardiola will sign a new deal earlier than the end of the year, 90min understands.
The Spaniard, who has received 4 Premier League titles with City since taking on in 2016, is out of contract at the end of the 2022/23 season, although discussions over an extension have been ongoing for a quantity of months.
Sources have advised 90min that there’s already a ‘broad settlement’ in place with Guardiola’s representatives over a new deal – which might tie him right down to the membership till 2025 – and that City, who stay calm about the state of affairs, would ideally like Guardiola to place pen to paper earlier than the end of the calendar year.
Whether or not Guardiola does commit stays to be seen – it is extensively recognized that he is eager to return to America at some stage after having fun with a year-long sabbatical in New York in 2013 – however City are ‘very assured’ that he’ll decide to proceed at the membership, the place he can work with and develop Erling Haaland.
Nevertheless, 90min additional understands that City Group have made it clear to the 51-year-old that he’d have a spot at New York City FC ought to he need it, and {that a} succession plan has been floated by the membership’s hierarchy if Guardiola decides to depart at the end of his present contract.
One identify to have been mentioned is Mikel Arteta, sources have advised 90min, who’s now seen to be a real contender for the job after main Arsenal to the high of the Premier League desk.
Arteta is well-known to City after spending three years as Guardiola’s assistant, and his startling progress at the Emirates Stadium – which has seen him linked with the high job at Barcelona in current months – has not gone unnoticed.
Bayern Munich’s Julian Nagelsmann and River Plate’s Marcelo Gallardo are two others believed to be on City’s radar, though the Premier League champions finally hope that Guardiola will keep and that any succession plan will not should be actioned for one more few years.qq