Pep Guardiola has confirmed he will take a break from management when he departs Manchester City and suggested he could even retire when he leaves the Etihad.The Spaniard, 54, is close to ending his ninth season with the Cityzens and his current contract runs out at the end of the 2026/27 season.##NAJAVA_MECA_8901315##However, there has been a growing expectation he would leave even after the end of this campaign. Speaking to ESPN Brasil as part of a Premier League Encounters documentary, which aired ahead of City’s tonight Premier League clash against Wolverhampton Wanderers (10 pm), the Catalan suggested he will leave when his contract expires and could even end his managerial career at that point!”I want people to remember me however they want,” Guardiola said. “After my contract with City, I’m going to stop. I’m sure. I don’t know if I’m going to retire, but I’m going to take a break. How I want to be remembered, I don’t know.”All coaches want to win so we can have a memorable job, but I believe that the fans of Barcelona, Bayern Munich and City had fun watching my teams play. I don’t think we should ever live thinking about whether we’re going to be remembered.Pep Guardiola praises Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool FC🥰Great lecture from Pep Guardiola for the UEFA PRO course in Spain 📖To watch the full lecture with English subtitles, send me a DM!!!😏Follow me for more!🙂 pic.twitter.com/yu2u0e2fQ9— Juani Jimena (@JimenaJuani) May 2, 2025 “When we die, our families cry for two or three days and then that’s it – you’re forgotten. In the careers of coaches, there are good and bad ones, the important thing is that the good ones are remembered for longer.”I’ll tell you that the most important thing is not what people think of you, after all, our lives as footballers have been very good. There are new challenges as a coach, I don’t know what will happen in the future and in the end that doesn’t matter.”##EDITORS_CHOICE##Guardiola admitted there is plenty to learn from a disappointing campaign, both in the defeats and the victories.”It was a year of great learning. There is not just one reason why this year was difficult, there are many details, like wrong decisions made for me. So, it has been a year of great learning for me, personally,” he said.”People think we learn more from defeats than from victories. But I also think I learn from victories.”I knew there would be a moment when we would fall, but we fell a lot. We didn’t expect to be so far, but we can’t win them all. What we did during 10, nine years was exceptional, but now we have to sit down and learn to try to understand what we need to produce in the future.”ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 35Friday 22.00: (1.40) Man.City (4.70) Wolverhampton (8.00)Saturday 14.30: (1.80) Aston Villa (3.60) Fulham (4.60)17.00: (1.53) Everton (4.20) Ipswich (6.50)17.00: (2.30) Leicester (3.60) Southampton (3.15)19.30: (2.20) Arsenal (3.50) Bournemouth (3.50)Sunday 16.00: (1.65) Brentford (4.30) Man.Utd. (5.20)16.00: (3.00) Brighton (3.50) Newcastle (2.30)16.00: (2.25) West Ham (3.60) Tottenham (3.30)18.30: (2.25) Chelsea (3.70) Liverpool (3.15)***odds are subject to change***
