Official
Pep Guardiola he will still continue to be the coach of Manchester City. The news was in the air, but now it is also official: the Spanish manager has signed a two-year contract with the English and will therefore remain with the Sky Blues until 2027. Below is the full press release and the Instagram post that the company launches with this slogan: “I’m not leaving, I can assure you. The journey continues”.
“Pep Guardiola has signed a new two-year contract with Manchester City. With the new deal, the Catalan will have spent more than a decade as City manager. Guardiola’s time at City is full of successes. He has won 18 major trophies so far, including six Premier League titles and a UEFA Champions League.
By winning the Premier League last season, City became the first men’s team in the history of English football to win four consecutive top-flight titles. And the previous season had seen Guardiola guide City to a magnificent treble of the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup, in what was the most important season in our 130-year history.
Under his leadership, City also became the first team in Premier League history to reach 100 points in a single season (2017/18) and the first in English football to win all four domestic trophies (2018/19 ). His overall record is remarkable. In all competitions, he won 353 of the 490 matches he oversaw, giving him an exceptional win rate of 72%, with City scoring 1,200 goals during that period at an average of 2.45 goals per match .
Guardiola’s 490 games in charge of the team mean that only Les McDowall, who managed 587 between 1950 and 1963, is ahead of Pep in the Club’s all-time list of most games managed. There is now a possibility that Guardiola, the Premier League’s longest-serving manager, will surpass McDowall’s total before the end of next season, given our involvement in this summer’s FIFA Club World Cup in the United States.”