Pep Guardiola: Man City manager agrees one-year contract extension

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Pep Guardiola: Man City manager agrees one-year contract extension

After moving from Bayern to Manchester in 2016, Guardiola went without a trophy in a season for the first time in his career.

Typically, he bounced back in 2017/18 to secure a double. This season, City became the first English top team Reach 100 points in a season with a win at Southampton on the final day of the match. you too won the Carabao Cup.

The following season, City became the first men's team to win the domestic treble in England, which was rounded off with another victory Empressive 6-0 FA Cup final win against Watford.

In the 2019-20 season affected by Covid-19, City won the EFL Cupbut Liverpool beat them to win the Premier League title and Guardiola's side suffered disappointment in the Champions League eliminated in the quarter-finals against Lyon.

City's recent stranglehold on the Premier League began in the 2020/21 season when Guardiola's side won it First of four historic titles in a rowas well as the use of the EFL Cup again. They also reached their first Champions League final but failed to make it Beaten 1-0 against Chelsea by Thomas Tuchel.

Another The title in the top division was secured in 2021/22with Guardiola becoming the second most successful coach in Premier League history.

City became only the second English men's team to win the Champions League, after rivals Manchester United. Premier League And FA Cup They achieved the triple in 2022/23.

Deserved victory over Inter Milan in Istanbul City their first Champions League title.

The triumph in Turkey also ended Guardiola's personal 12-year wait to win the tournament again after winning two Champions League titles in Barcelona.

The Blues were the first team in the history of the English top flight win four titles in 2024 in a row, but missed out on the double as Manchester United secured a shock win over their rivals in the FA Cup final.

Guardiola began his career as a manager at Barcelona B, winning the Spanish fourth division, before becoming Barcelona coach in 2008.

At the start of his tenure, he won three consecutive league titles, including the Copa del Rey and Champions League treble in 2009.

Guardiola left Barcelona in 2012 and took a year out before joining Bayern, where he won three league titles and two German Cups in three seasons, achievements that helped boost his long-standing appeal to City.

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