Guardiola will leave Manchester City after 10 years

BarcelonaPep Guardiola will leave Manchester City after 10 seasons at the Etihad Stadium. The coach from Santpedor will thus bring an end to the longest and most successful period of his career on the sidelines, as the citizen club has won six Premier League titles with him, as well as the first Champions League in its history. The news was first reported by the Daily Mail and has been confirmed by other leading media outlets in England such as The Athletic, which added that his replacement will be Italian Enzo Maresca, who until a few months ago was coach of Chelsea and a former disciple of Guardiola himself.

The events are surprising because the coach from the Bages region had a contract until 2027 and is still aiming to win the Premier League. His team needs to beat Bournemouth this Tuesday, do it again at the weekend against Aston Villa, and hope that Mikel Arteta's Arsenal does not win their visit to Crystal Palace, who have nothing more than honor to play for. Whatever happens on the final matchday, Guardiola has added two titles, the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup, in recent weeks to a trophy cabinet that includes – between

Barça, Bayern Munich, and Manchester City – no less than 40 official titles.

The Italian national team has no coach

The Catalan coach took the reins of the Manchester club in 2016, replacing Manuel Pellegrini, and will speak this week to explain a decision that comes months after Txiki Begiristain's resignation from the club's sporting director role and a moment of generational change in the squad, with players like Bernardo Silva and John Stones running out their contracts as they will not renew them from next June 30. Both the Portuguese and the English have been key to Guardiola's and City's successes over the last decade.

After more than ten years without a break, everything indicates that the coach will take a pause before deciding where to direct his professional career. He has always said that he would like to coach a national team. Italy, for example, has not found a successor to Gennaro Gattuso after failing to qualify for the World Cup again. On an interim basis, the very veteran Silvio Baldini is the Italian coach. Guardiola speaks Italian because he played in Brescia after spending most of his career as a footballer at Barça.