Manchester City bosses are ready to offer Pep Guardiola a new £20m-a-year deal to make him the best paid manager in the world of football.
Man City chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak will sanction the £5m-a-season pay rise after holding a meeting with Guardiola at the end of the season.
Guardiola still has 18 months left on his current contract he signed when he took charge at City in the summer of 2016.
Manchester City has displayed incredible form this season and are clearly playing the best football in Europe. It is being said that Guardiola is loving his second season in the English top-flight and wants to commit his long-term future to the club.
Guardiola struggled in his debut season in the Premier League. The Spaniard endured a trophyless campaign last season as he failed to challenge for the title and also crashed out of the Champions League after defeat against AS Monaco in the semi-finals of the European competition.
He had doubted his methods and philosophy after failing to meet the club’s expectations last term but this time around it is a different story altogether.
Saturday’s 4-1 win over Tottenham extended Manchester City’s record-breaking winning streak to 16 games in-a-row.
Man City maintain their dominance in the league – sitting at the top of the league table – 11 points ahead of arch-rivals Manchester United and the news about Guardiola ready to extend his stay at the Etihad comes as a huge boost for both the club and their fans.
Back then he said that he wanted to take a one-year break to spend more time with his wife and three children in New York.
Guardiola made a return to management by taking up the Bayern Munich job in 2013, but he did not extend his contract with the Bundesliga club and left after three successful seasons.
He joined Manchester City and reunited with his close pal and director of football Txiki Begiristain, with whom he had worked at Barcelona.
The Man City bosses are well aware that the club will have to remain consistent and win more trophies before they can be considered a dominating force in Europe. They will not get carried away with the club’s success this season.
However, Al-Mubarak is now convinced that Guardiola is the right man to take the club forward.
The Man City chief also came to know that the Spaniard is ready to commit his long-term future and is looking forward build a dynasty at Manchester City.
And now he is ready to make the former Barcelona boss the best manager in the world of football at the end of the season.
