Pep Guardiola: Manchester City manager signs contract extension to 2025

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has signed a two-year declaration hold that volition support him astatine the nine until 2025.

The 51-year-old Spaniard has taken complaint of 374 games and is City's 2nd longest-serving manager.

"From time 1 I felt thing peculiar being here. I cannot beryllium successful a amended place," said Guardiola.

"I americium truthful pleased to beryllium staying astatine Manchester City for different 2 years.

"I can't accidental convey you capable to everyone astatine the nine for trusting me. I americium blessed and comfortable, and I person everything I request to bash my occupation arsenic champion arsenic possible.

"I cognize the adjacent section of this nine volition beryllium astonishing for the adjacent decade. It happened implicit the past 10 years, and it volition hap successful the adjacent 10 years due to the fact that this nine is truthful stable.

"I inactive person the feeling determination is much we tin execute unneurotic and that is wherefore I privation to enactment and proceed warring for trophies."

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City, the existent Premier League champions, are 2nd successful the array this play - 5 points down Arsenal - and look RB Leipzig successful the Champions League circular of 16 successful February.

Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said helium was "delighted" to widen Guardiola's contract.

"He has already contributed truthful overmuch to the occurrence and cloth of this organisation, and it's breathtaking to deliberation what mightiness beryllium imaginable fixed the energy, hunger and ambition that helium intelligibly inactive has," said Al Mubarak.

"Under his precise peculiar enactment our archetypal squad has accomplished truthful much, whilst continuously playing, and perpetually evolving, a City benignant of shot that is admired the satellite over.

"Like each City fan, I americium looking guardant to what lies ahead."

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