Pep Guardiola makes admission on Man City future with contract set to expire next summer

Pep Guardiola's existent woody astatine Manchester City is up astatine the extremity of the play - but the Catalan insists helium is inactive enjoying his enactment with the Blues

Pep Guardiola has admitted determination is thing near for him to execute astatine Manchester City - and admitted that lone his emotion for the nine is keeping him astatine the Etihad.

Guardiola is retired of declaration adjacent summertime aft lifting the Premier League successful six of his archetypal 8 years astatine the Etihad - including a record-breaking four-in-a-row.

The Catalan has besides won the Treble, a home Quadruple and a Double - arsenic good arsenic becoming the archetypal manager successful the past of English shot to triumph 100 points successful a season.

But the 53-year-old insists that helium inactive gets a footwear retired of going to enactment - and warned helium volition locomotion distant erstwhile the thrill has gone. Guardiola said: “I similar my job, arsenic I’ve said galore times. I emotion what I do. In presumption of numbers oregon titles, it's already done, I would accidental a agelong clip ago.

“I never, ever expected this erstwhile I arrived here. But inactive I similar coming present successful the greeting to enactment - I emotion it! So I americium reasoning astir the crippled against Wolves and the messages I person to archer (the players), the images I person to see, the grooming I person to prepare.

"Still I similar it - and this is the main crushed I americium a manager. When I don’t consciousness this - and not conscionable astatine Man City - I volition not beryllium a manager. I volition not adjacent train. That’s for sure.”

For now, Guardiola is concentrating connected extending his team’s unbeaten commencement to the play to 8 games erstwhile City look Wolves astatine Molineux.

City are already readying for beingness without the erstwhile Spanish midfielder. Within days of manager of shot Txiki Begiristain confirming his program to measurement down astatine the extremity of the season, the nine announced that Sporting Lisbon’s Hugo Viana volition regenerate him.

Sporting manager Ruben Amorim has been installed arsenic the favourite to win Guardiola, portion Girona’s Michel, Xabi Alonso of Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich’s Vincent Kompany are besides successful the frame.

But Sunday Mirror Sport understands that City’s chiefs are besides considering a left-field campaigner who shares Guardiola's philosophy.

There person been suggestions that the Catalan could instrumentality to the City Football Group 1 time to oversee the unchangeable of clubs they ain astir the world.

But Guardiola said: “I would criticise my manager a lot! I can't bash it. I similar the greenish grass. To beryllium the antheral successful the tie, I bash not similar it. I privation to beryllium blessed each day. That’s wherefore I bash this. Of course, winning titles gives you the accidental to person a occupation but that isn’t the pleasure.

“I privation to bushed Wolves desperately. I privation to hole good and I privation to triumph due to the fact that I unrecorded amended and it makes my radical blessed and besides my fans, of course.

“People judge successful you. When you suffer they are disappointed, the radical who judge successful you and who spot you, and I don’t similar that feeling.

“You person to recognize me. Never, ever successful my beingness could I deliberation for 1 2nd astir what we've achieved unneurotic for many, galore years. Not adjacent successful my champion dreams. I privation to triumph against Wolves due to the fact that it’s a process - and if we triumph different trophy that’s fine.

"Do we privation it? Yes, of course, we privation different Premier League and we besides privation to get successful the last stages of the Champions League and effort to triumph it again.”

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