Pep Guardiola is set to extend his contract as coach of Spanish football champions Barcelona, according to Spanish news reports.
|||Madrid – Pep Guardiola is set to extend his contract as coach of Spanish football champions Barcelona, Spanish news reports said on Tuesday.
Madrid sports daily AS said that the contract extension will be announced “in the next few weeks.” Catalan paper Mundo Deportivo said the new deal could be revealed “any day now” because the conditions are “completely agreed.”
Guardiola's present contract expires after the season, but the 39-year-old is keen to continue.
The only remaining doubt is the duration of the new agreement.
Barca president Sandro Rosell has proposed a six-year deal, but it seems that Guardiola would prefer a rolling contract which would be renewed every season unless either of the two parties wanted to finish it.
Johan Cruyff – in many ways the mentor of Guardiola – had this kind of contract and stayed on the Barca bench for eight successful years 1988-1996.
Last week Rosell expressed the hope that Guardiola would stay as long at Barca as Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United (just over 24 years now).
Guardiola has been suggested as a possible replacement for Ferguson when the Scotsman eventually retires at Old Trafford.
Rosell said that Guardiola “may want to renew every year. He could become Barca's Ferguson. He can extend his contract as many times as he wants.
“Pep is Barca. He lives for this club. That is what differentiates him from many coaches.”
Guardiola played for Barca 1991-2001. He took over as coach in 2008 and has guided the Catalans to two Spanish Ligas, one Champions League, one Club World Cup and one King's Cup, playing a sumptuous brand of touch football that has won admirers across the globe.
The “Pep Team” is currently two points above Real Madrid atop La Liga, and one of the favourites to win the Champions League. – Sapa-dpa
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