So Guardiola, who has led City in the 8 years of their partnership to 6 Premier League victories, while in total he has celebrated 17 titles. has decided to stay for another year on the bench of the "citizens", even if the champion of England is punished for the matter of 115 financial violations. Yet another 2-1 defeat by Brighton in the Premier League was his side's fourth consecutive loss, the first since 2018.

But the Catalan manager said he was looking forward to the challenge of getting the English champions back on track.

Pep Guardiola met again with the management of the English champions and personally with the owner of City, the flamboyant prince from the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mansour. And he was the one who managed to convince the great coach to stay for one more season at the Etihad." .

At the same time, the two men have communicated several times together and agreed to meet in Dubai during the holiday season to formally "close" the issue. Mansour even intends to satisfy all of Guardiola's demands to keep him on the City bench.

The information even states that the Sheikh intends to increase the Catalan's annual salary from 15 to 23 millions euros (without bonuses), while he intends to give him a transfer budget of 320 millions Euro for next summer.