Pep Guardiola ‘to leave’ Manchester City after decade that changed English football | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola is poised to leave Manchester City at season’s end, ending a transformative decade despite a contract running to 2027.

According to The Sun, he told players on a group call and urged focus before Bournemouth. The game finished 1-1 on Tuesday, handing Arsenal the title.

He has won 20 trophies in 10 years, including three Community Shields. City reached 100 points in 2018 and completed a domestic treble in 2019.

Only Sir Alex Ferguson has more Premier League crowns, 13 to Guardiola’s six, and City matched United’s 1999 feat by winning the league, FA Cup and Champions League in 2023.

His rivalry with Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool shaped 2018 to 2024, while his ideas spread across the pyramid, from building from the back and ball-playing keepers to inverted full-backs and engineered overloads.

Over the past year he often preferred a more vertical style, adding the FA Cup and the League Cup, 2-0 against Arsenal on 22 March, and leaving a younger squad featuring Rayan Cherki, 22, signed from Lyon last summer. City spent €2.03 billion across the decade and detractors will stress that, while designated successor Enzo Maresca, a former assistant who has worked at Chelsea, will inherit the Premier League’s “115 charges” case.

City will hope to avoid the post-Ferguson turbulence that has dogged United since 2013.

Source: L'Équipe