Guardiola to remain City boss until 2025

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has signed a two-year contract extension to keep him at the club until the summer of 2025.

The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss, 51, has won nine major trophies, including four Premier League titles, since taking charge at City in 2016.

Guardiola said in a statement from the club: “I am so pleased to be staying at Manchester City for another two years.

“I can’t say thank you enough to everyone at the club for trusting me. I am happy and comfortable, and I have everything I need to do my job as best as possible.

“I know the next chapter of this club will be amazing for the next decade. It happened over the last 10 years, and it will happen in the next 10 years because this club is so stable.

“From day one I felt something special being here. I cannot be in a better place.

“I still have the feeling there is more we can achieve together and that is why I want to stay and continue fighting for trophies.”

Guardiola, who has overseen 271 wins in 374 matches as City boss in all competitions, said talk with the chairman over an extension started just after the team had retained the Premier League title in May.

On the sense that he could “not be in a better place now”, he said: “The moment I don’t feel that – for family reasons, or I have achieved everything I want to achieve, or I don’t feel comfortable with the team, or it’s not a pleasure to fight for another Premier League – when these feelings disappear, I will step aside.

“But still I have this feeling there is something more to do. That is my feeling right now. And that is why we continue together.”

As well as the league triumphs, Guardiola’s trophy haul at City includes one FA Cup and four League Cups, and they were Champions League runners-up in 2020-21.

City are second in the Premier League table, five points behind Arsenal.