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  • 6 weeks ago
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on his future at the club with reports linking Enzo Maresca with his job when Pep leaves ahead of their Premier League clash with West Ham
Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK
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00:00You have earned the right to decide, I think, when you call time on your period here at Manchester City.
00:06You have 18 months on your contract.
00:08I just wonder, have you given any thought to whether you will see out the entirety of that contract
00:13or whether you may indeed choose to leave in the summer?
00:16Where are you in that kind of thought process right now?
00:20Well, the last three or four years, every time in a certain period, ask me about that question.
00:24So, yeah, sooner or later, I don't know, with the 75 or 76, I will quit from Manchester City.
00:30But I understand that question when I have an end of contract.
00:34But I have, you said perfectly, 18 months.
00:37So I'm so delighted, happy.
00:39I was excited with the development of the team and being there.
00:43That is all I can say.
00:45But, you know, that question happens every single season at a certain point.
00:49So I'm OK.
00:51So when, I said many times, the club and myself, we are incredibly connected in terms of the decision that we have to take
01:01and when it's going to happen, it's going to happen.
01:04What considerations do you give in those discussions?
01:08Because obviously there are some managers who say, for example,
01:11I'm going to leave at the end of this contract in the summer
01:13and that has an adverse effect on performances and the players.
01:17You have so much history, so much affection for this club.
01:19What considerations do you have to have to bear all of that in mind, alongside your own decisions?
01:24The problem is that there are no discussions.
01:29End of the subject.
01:31There are no discussions.
01:33But they will come at some point.
01:35Yes.
01:36Yeah.
01:36I will not be eternal here.
01:38But I said my second season here, my third season, I will not be forever.
01:41Any of us will be forever in this world.
01:46So, but it's not discussions.
01:49So what is going to happen is going to happen.
01:51Of course, the club must be prepared for everything, for the players, for the CEOs,
01:56except the owners, that they are here, except they decide to sell the club.
02:02That is not, I think it's going to happen.
02:04The rest, you know, the club has to be prepared, but it's not, you know,
02:12in that subject, it's not on the table right now.
02:14The City fans will want me to ask if you plan to be here at the start of next season.
02:19So, do you plan to be here?
02:20I answered that question, the two questions before.
02:24So, I'm here.
02:25So, yes.
02:26So, I'm here.
02:27It's going to happen.
02:28Who knows that?
02:29Who knows?
02:30But even if I have a 10-year contract or I have a six-month contract.
02:35So, football, it changes a lot.
02:38So, now I'm focusing with Ham and go a few days with my dad.
02:45And that's all.
02:46So, and come back, Nottingham and Sunderland and Chelsea and Brighton
02:50and all the stuff that we have ahead of us.
02:53Have a great Christmas.
02:54It's a better Christmas to you.
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