{"id":549128,"date":"2026-03-20T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549128\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:15:10","slug":"girona-coach-im-ready-to-succeed-pep-guardiola-at-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549128\/","title":{"rendered":"Girona coach: &#8216;I&#8217;m ready&#8217; to succeed Pep Guardiola at Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 20, 2026, 05:38 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19ffd1a2-11dd-8484-a4d6-1228473ca337\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=9812\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Girona<\/a> coach Michel S\u00e1nchez believes he is ready to take a big step in his career and guide <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> if the opportunity arises.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish tactician has been at the helm of Girona, the <a data-league-guid=\"cf7b0c51-7c48-3e9a-8abb-0c01b1a973a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ESP.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaLiga<\/a> club that is part of the City Group, since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Michel, 50, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=586rDUEwnHI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;La Otra Grada&#8217; podcast<\/a>: &#8220;I do see myself as ready [to coach City], I see myself ready to coach any team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then said while laughing: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if they [City] see it that way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously it&#8217;s not the same [to coach Girona or City]. I don&#8217;t have a magic wand to speak to any type of ego but I do have the ability to adapt and I want to experience it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Michel S\u00e1nchez insists he is ready to manage Manchester City.\u00a0Eduard Duran\/Quality Sport Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola, 55, will celebrate his 10th year of coaching at City this summer. He has a contract with the Citizens until June 2027.<\/p>\n<p>However, there have been doubts about whether he will continue at the Etihad Stadium beyond this season, with the former <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"58f7c4a9-c991-4ed4-fe5c-1f833cba75b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=83\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a> coach evading questions about his future plans following his team&#8217;s exit from the <a data-league-guid=\"da52796f-2621-3351-8e77-955da92ea82d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/UEFA.CHAMPIONS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UEFA Champions League<\/a> this week after a 5-1 aggregate loss to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"66434654-a8ba-a04c-98e5-6bbd0dbbb780\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=86\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michel, meanwhile, says he is preparing in the event that a potential move to the <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> materialises.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have an English teacher and I keep working at it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/48249742\/premier-league-power-rankings-rating-all-20-teams-march-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8211; Premier League Power Rankings: Arsenal down, Man City up based on performance<br \/>&#8211;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/48241898\/weekend-predictions-arsenal-man-city-carabao-cup-laliga-real-madrid-atletico-madrid-julien-laurens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Predictions: Arsenal or Man City to win Carabao final? Who takes Madrid derby?<br \/>&#8211;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/48240382\/man-city-gianluigi-donnarumma-questions-real-madrid-vinicius-celebration-try-make-everyone-love-champions-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Man City&#8217;s Donnarumma: Vin\u00edcius &#8216;should try and make everyone love him&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michel, who began his coaching experience at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"60c1cc6d-2aac-dabf-b890-6b2c5eb3dbd5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=101\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rayo Vallecano<\/a>, the club he suited up for most of his playing career, has made an impact at Girona.<\/p>\n<p>After leading the Catalan outfit to promotion to LaLiga in his first season in charge, he was named LaLiga manager of the season in the 2023-24 after Girona finished third in the standings to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in the club&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Girona, who beat league leaders Barcelona 2-1 last month and held Real Madrid to a 1-1 draw in November, are 12th in LaLiga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 20, 2026, 05:38 AM ET Girona coach Michel S\u00e1nchez believes he is ready to take a big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-549128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}