When you look at the new model of running Manchester City football club and combine it with the recent history of their head coach Manuel Pellegrini, this rumour seems entirely possible. Qatari based sports channel BEIN Sports Tweeted:
Guardiola agrees to become Manchester City coach from next season
This comes in a week when Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said of the Spaniard:
“We’re very happy with Pep, who’s doing a good job. He’s a good representative,”
“I’m relatively relaxed. If he wants to stay on, that’s wonderful but, if he doesn’t, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. In that case, we’ll think of something new.”
Of course we can’t look too much into pre-season friendlies.
But in the latest battering handed out by Real Madrid there was a feeling that, while expensive new players are coming into Manchester City, the team isn’t really evolving – has it hit a glass ceiling?
In terms of success in football we very much subscribe to the idea that, if the money is there, it’s relatively easy to get the first 90% of the way to pre-eminence. It’s that last 10% which requires real ingenuity.
Because, at the sort of level that City are now operating, they have the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Manchester United in their way – clubs who have gained invaluable experience and chiseled out their success over the space of decades.
In under a decade Manchester City have gone from a club which yo-yoed between The Premier League and The Championship to double title winners.
But they haven’t really progressed in Europe – regularly getting their pants pulled down regardless of domestic form – and this will be of growing concern to the top brass at City.
We like Manuel Pellegrini and are glad that he was given another season to impress.
But we were also rather surprised that a change wasn’t made this summer and, had Pep been available, then perhaps the Chilean would be gone already.
But we think Manchester City will make change at the and of this season and Pep is perhaps their man.
