Pep Guardiola was appointed Manchester City manager in 2016 and has presided over 302 games in the last five years, boasting a 74% win ratio and having won four League Cups, three Premier League titles and one FA Cup.
Guardiola has two years remaining on his deal at the Etihad Stadium but El Nacional say he’s nearing the ‘end of cycle’ and might soon be on his way out. One club interested in poaching him are Barcelona.
The 50-year-old, a former player and manager of the Catalans, won the treble in 2008/09 while changing the landscape of football by popularising tiki-taka. Barcelona are currently in dire straits under Ronald Koeman and would surely jump at the chance to bring Guardiola back.
Barca are seventh in La Liga with eight points from a possible 12 this season, coming off the back of a 1-1 draw with Granada. They’ve started the campaign poorly and El Nacional talk about the ‘strange’ decisions Koeman has made in games, so they’d like to replace him with somebody more confident.
But why Guardiola would leave City for a broken project at his former club remains to be seen.