Pep Guardiola has proposeed that the thumping his Manchester City side got agetst Sporting helped inspire him to sign a shrink extension at the Etihad Stadium.
Guardiola’s recent deal runs until June 2026 and joins the selection of a further 12 months, taking him past a decade in accuse of the Blues. The proclaimment comes amid a torrid run of create for the reigning Premier League champions, who went into the international fracture off the back of four consecutive fall shortures – a first for Guardiola as a administerr.
Since the home prosper over Southampton equitable under a month ago, City have been turned over by Tottenham, Bournemouth, Sporting and Brighton.
The Sporting fall shorture was particularly agonizing, with the Portuguese side, who were still administerd by recent Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim at the time, streaking evident in the second half to prosper 4-1.
Guardiola has confessted that the humbling he got at the hands of his recent local rival, alengthy with the three other fall shortures in City’s nightmare run, gave him the push he needed to sign on the dotted line.
“I felt I could not depart now, modest as that,” clarifyed the createer Barcelona and Bayern Munich head coach. “Don’t ask me the reason why. Maybe the four fall shortures was the reason why I felt I cannot depart.”
City are five points behind Liverpool in their hunt for a fifth consecutive Premier League title, and only 10th in the Champions League standings after a rocky begin in Europe. The circumstances are tricky for Guardiola, who has been battling rampant injury rehires in recent weeks and will be without recently-crowned Ballon d’Or prosperner Rodri for the whole 2023/24 season.
But the 53-year-elderly is selectimistic of masterminding a turnaround. “As lengthy as we have outstanding joiners we will be prosperous and I leank the club is aiming this,” he shelp. “Sometimes you have to relocate joiners, convey recent ones, and as lengthy as you have a outstanding mentality and these standards, the club will be in the position that it deserves to be.
“Every time I sign the shrink I say, ‘Ok this is the last two [years]’, and after I sign [another] shrink I say, ‘Ok, the last two’, and still we are here.”
The first of a jam-packed eight-game run for City begins at home to Tottenham on Saturday, before a encountering with Feyenoord in the Champions League and a mouth-watering showdown with Liverpool at Anfield.
