Guardiola's one-year extension suggests FFP anxiety, claims former City correspondent

Ian Cheeseman believes Pep Guardiola signing a one-year extension could mean that City are concerned by FFP.

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00:00If Pep Guardiola had signed a three or four-year contract, then that to me would be a big message

00:05that City are very, very confident.

00:07The fact that now it's likely he'll sign a one-year contract suggests to me that there's

00:12still a level of anxiety, even though publicly they've been saying right from the beginning

00:17that they're completely innocent, they've got nothing to worry about, and that they're

00:20very confident they're going to win.

00:22And there are other measures of that anxiety, i.e. the fact that City haven't gone out and

00:26spent a lot of money in the last 12 months.

00:29I know the rodry injury happened after the season started, so maybe another indication

00:34would be the level of confidence would be in January, whether they go out and spend

00:39a lot of money.

00:40City have been linked, for example, with Musiala at Bayern Munich, but they haven't gone out

00:45and made a huge offer.

00:49It feels like they've been protecting their assets, financial assets, just in case.

00:54Whether City are found guilty or not, I suppose, is in the lap of the gods, but there are indications

01:00there to me that they're just being careful, as it were, right now until the outcome of

01:06all this is finally decided.