Guardiola, 44, has confirmed he will quit Bayern Munich at the end of the season, with Carlo Ancelotti to replace him after the former Chelsea boss agreed a three-year deal. The Dutchman has come under increasingly growing pressure at Old Trafford following a string of disappointing results and if the Glazer family have got one eye on finally finding a sustainable replacement to Sir Alex Ferguson, Guardiola could well be the USA owners number one target, and he is a 6/1 shot, in the next United manager market, behind 11/10 favourite, Jose Mourinho, who was relieved of his duties at Chelsea last Thursday.
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“It’s a great honour for me that I will be trainer of such a great club as FC Bayern next season”, Ancelotti, who has signed a three-year contract until 2019, wrote on Twitter.
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“We’re grateful to Guardiola for everything he has given to our club since 2013”, Bayern’s chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said in a statement published on the Bundesliga club’s website.
“I am convinced that Pep and the team will work harder to reach the big sporting aims of the club, especially now that it is clear that Pep will leave”.
MUNICH – Pep Guardiola has spurned Bayern Munich’s attempts to retain him as coach into next season, with the German soccer powerhouse simultaneously announcing Sunday that Carlo Ancelotti will take over in the dugout.
Bayern next faces last season’s runner-up Juventus in the last 16, with the first leg on February 23.
In the meantime there is sure to be plenty of speculation over what his next move will be.
With Chelsea appointing Guus Hiddink until “the end of the season”, one would have to favour Chelsea for the future of Guardiola’s career.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic fell out with Guardiola when the pair were at Barcelona and while the Sweden star’s deal in Paris expires in the summer he is unlikely to have been complimentary about his former boss to his team-mates who will be left behind.
“With Ancelotti, once again a very good coach joins Bayern Munich”.
“When I knew of the club’s interest I didn’t want to consider any other offer”.
“My contract showed that the club was happy and that I was happy, but sometimes you can have a contract for six or eight years and, at the end of the season, you don’t continue anyway”, he said.
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Forty-four-year-old Guardiola has been in charge at the Allianz Arena since 2013, during which time he has guided the Bavarians to five trophies.
