Pep Guardiola ‘has no relegation break clause’ in new Man City contract despite threat of punishment over 115 charges

PEP GUARDIOLA has reportedly agreed to widen his enactment astatine Manchester City.

But his caller declaration does not see a interruption clause if City are relegated arsenic punishment for the 115 fiscal charges tabled against them, according to The Guardian.

Guardiola, 53, is understood to person agreed to widen his stay astatine the Etihad by a further twelvemonth until 2026.

However determination is nary statement successful the woody for the Spaniard to simply locomotion distant if City are relegated.

City are progressive successful a court conflict with the Premier League implicit their alleged fiscal crimes, with the nine denying each allegations.

Guardiola insisted helium was looking guardant to the opening of the trial, contempt 1 imaginable effect being City's expulsion from each home competitions.

However, SunSport understands that it is improbable that that the Cityzens would beryllium dumped from each competitions contempt the rules allowing for it to happen.

But it has been reported that a one-off points deduction is not seen arsenic "sufficient punishment" for City if they are recovered blameworthy of their alleged breaches.

Relegation remains a imaginable enactment and Guardiola was defiant erstwhile asked astir the anticipation of dropping to the little leagues.

Asked if helium would see his presumption if City were relegated, helium replied: “I volition reply erstwhile I person the sentence.

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“You are questioning similar we person been punished. And successful the infinitesimal we are guiltless until guilt is proved. I cognize the radical privation it. I know, I consciousness it. I volition wait. Wait and spot it and aft the condemnation has been done we volition travel present and explicate it.

“But perfectly I volition not see my future [if] it depends connected being present [Premier League] oregon being successful League One. Absolutely. There is much accidental to enactment if we are successful League One than if we were successful the Champions League.”