Manchester Metropolis are getting ready for Pep Guardiola’s exit after Sunday’s Premier League match towards Aston Villa.
Sources have instructed BBC Sport that the managerial nice is predicted to depart Etihad Stadium on the finish of the season.
Metropolis keep Guardiola has a contract for subsequent season and are hopeful he’ll stay as supervisor.
Nevertheless, work in direction of his anticipated exit is underneath method on the membership, with members of workers of the understanding he’ll go away.
It’s understood members of the squad are additionally anticipating his departure after the ultimate sport of the season towards Villa, whereas the membership have turned their attentions in direction of how finest to mark the tenure of their iconic boss.
Naming the newly expanded North Stand after their departing supervisor is an possibility the membership are understood to be contemplating.
Former Chelsea supervisor Enzo Maresca, who labored underneath Guardiola at Metropolis, is the front-runner to interchange the 55-year-old.
Guardiola has led Metropolis to 17 main trophies – and 20 in all – together with six Premier League titles, the Champions League, three FA Cups and 5 EFL Cups throughout his 10 years at Metropolis.
The membership’s best boss is broadly considered among the finest managers of all time, and will but nonetheless cap his stellar spell at Etihad Stadium with a seventh Premier League title, having already received the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup this season.
Hypothesis concerning the supervisor’s future has been rife for months, with the query about his tenure at Manchester Metropolis typically arising in information conferences.
He was requested on Friday whether or not the next day’s journey to Wembley for the FA Cup closing can be his final go to there. “No method,” he stated, reminding reporters he had “yet one more 12 months” on his contract.
And in a interview with BBC Sport earlier than Saturday’s FA Cup closing, when requested if he’ll nonetheless be on the membership subsequent season, he replied: “Yeah.”
The ex-Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss added: “I’m right here, I’ve a contract.”
The identical query got here earlier on Monday at a information convention to preview Tuesday’s journey to Bournemouth.
Guardiola was requested about Andoni Iraola’s departure from the Cherries and whether or not he had considered his personal farewell.
He sighed and stated: “Subsequent. So many instances – I’ve yet one more 12 months.”
He was additionally requested concerning the prospect of the North Stand being named after him.
“No, no, no, no, no, no, I don’t know [about] that,” he stated.
“They do not need to do something, actually.”
