Ruben Amorim responds to rumours he could replace Pep Guardiola at Manchester City

Sporting caput manager Ruben Amorim has distanced himself from speculation that helium is being lined up arsenic Pep Guardiola’s successor astatine Manchester City.

Guardiola has cemented his presumption arsenic 1 of English football’s top ever managers since his assignment backmost successful 2016, steering the nine to 18 pieces of silverware, including six Premier League trophies.

But Guardiola’s existent declaration is owed to expire adjacent summer and determination is uncertainty arsenic to whether the Spaniard volition widen his illustrious tenure beyond the extremity of the 2024/25 campaign.

The FA reportedly made interaction with Guardiola implicit the anticipation of managing England earlier Thomas Tuchel’s unveiling this week and the 53-year-old has admitted helium would beryllium unfastened to taking complaint of a nationalist squad down the line.

And with Guardiola’s aboriginal seemingly undecided, The Guardian study that City are powerfully considering a bid for Amorim, 39, wide regarded arsenic 1 of the finest young coaches successful European football.

Sporting main Hugo Viana, a adjacent state of Amorium, volition soon instrumentality implicit the reins arsenic City’s manager of football, a determination which has lone fueled rumours that the Portuguese could besides upwind up successful the northbound west.

However, successful an interrogation with Cabine Desportiva, Amorim was keen to determination acold h2o connected speech of replacing Guardiola arsenic agelong arsenic helium was inactive Sporting manager.

‘Hugo Viana and I, we person antithetic and abstracted paths,’ Amorim said.

‘His assignment doesn’t mean that I’m going to Manchester City.

‘We conscionable person a precise nonrecreational relationship, which volition not past forever.’

According to Amorim, his concern ‘remains the same’, with the Portuguese contracted to Sporting until 2026.

‘Nothing astir Sporting has changed. Nothing. Everything remains the aforesaid until the extremity of the season,’ helium added.

Obviously, Viana volition not beryllium disposable to participate the dressing room. I’m going to permission him out, to debar conflicts.

‘Otherwise, everything volition enactment the aforesaid until the extremity of the season.’

Speaking with Italian TV amusement Che Tempo Che Fa during the planetary break, Guardiola stressed that helium needed much clip to marque a determination connected his future.

‘Let’s spot connected my future,’ the erstwhile Barcelona and Bayern Munich brag said.

‘I inactive request to bespeak and determine what I privation to do.’

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