Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has lavished praise on Pep Guardiola, who will succeed Manuel Pellegrini as Manchester City’s next manager, describing him as “one of the best managers” in the world.
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The Sky Blues have supposedly already made contact with Messi’s advisers over a stunning switch and believe the signs are there that this deal could be completed.
Chelsea’s interim manager said: “It’s not big news (his appointment), people expected it when he said he was leaving Bayern and was planning to go to Premier League”.
The club are not doing nothing behind me.
Henry, who played under Guardiola during his time at Barcelona, thinks the 45-year-old will bring the same type of success to the Etihad as he did during his four years in charge of his hometown club.
While Guardiola will have a huge war chest to add to the squad in the summer, he might be surprised by the spending power of the Premier League’s smaller clubs.
In such relatively “new” football markets, Guardiola will carry far more impact than his predecessor Manuel Pellegrini and the level of high-class superstar City could now attract will lift the club even higher in terms of their global presence.
City had been heavily linked with hiring Guardiola.
‘Yaya won every trophy in England without Guardiola.
Pellegrini revealed he would not be taking up the year’s extension to his contract agreed last summer and that he had been kept fully informed of everything happening at the club.
“Manchester City are working in the correct way, they have got some players, a new coach”.
The next phase came in 2014 with the opening of the club’s lavish US$300 million training and player-development centre – the City Football Academy.
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The Ivorian, 32, left Barcelona to join City in a £25million switch after Guardiola favoured Sergio Busquets over him and his agent has launched an attack on the Spaniard. “They have a really great chance of winning it in the next two or three years”.
