And despite Bayern Munich offering Guardiola a few £17million a year to remain in Bavaria, Fabregas is still confident that Pep will end up on British shores eventually.
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Meanwhile, Premier League champions Chelsea want Guardiola to replace under-pressure Mourinho.
“We will have the talks after the end of the first half of the season (next month)”.
While City now lead the Premier League, Manuel Pellegrini has looked under threat in the past, especially given their poor record in the Champions League, and having won two European Cups as manager of Barcelona and one as a player with the La Liga side, Guardiola would certainly be an attractive option for the Etihad hierarchy.
Guardiola’s contract, however, runs out at the end of the season and as yet he has declined to discuss his future with the club.
“I am relaxed about it and so is the coach”, Rummenigge is quoted as saying by the Guardian, following Bayern’s latest victory – a 4-0 thumping of VfB Stuttgart.
Guardiola is out of contract at the Bundesliga club next summer and Manchester City have been heavily linked with a move to try and secure the Spaniard’s services.
“The decision will completely be based on his impressions”.
But Guardiola’s agent Josep Maria Orobitg has told Munich’s Tz newspaper that he does not know what that decision is going to be.
There have been doubts about whether Guardiola would stay at Bayern but the German giants are hopeful of fending off the English interest.
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Furthermore, Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge revealed last week that talks were scheduled with Guardiola over his future in December, but the manager’s own agent has confessed that even he is unsure of what his client is planning to do.
