{"id":658591,"date":"2026-05-22T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658591\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:23:11","slug":"nothing-is-eternal-pep-guardiola-confirms-he-is-leaving-manchester-city-after-10-years-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658591\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nothing is eternal\u2019: Pep Guardiola confirms he is leaving Manchester City after 10 years | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City have confirmed Pep Guardiola is leaving at the end of the season. The manager is to step away after Sunday\u2019s match at home to Aston Villa with one year on his contract, and City have lined up Enzo Maresca<\/a> to replace him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a time we have had together,\u201d Guardiola said. \u201cDon\u2019t ask me the reasons I\u2019m leaving. There is no reason, but deep inside I know it\u2019s my time. Nothing is eternal. If it was, I would be here. Eternal will be the feeling, the people, the memories, the love I have for my Manchester City<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

City said the Etihad Stadium\u2019s expanded North Stand would be named the Pep Guardiola<\/a> Stand and that a statue of him would be commissioned to feature on the approach. They also announced Guardiola would take a role as a global ambassador for City Football Group, which would involve \u201cgiving technical advice to the clubs in the group\u201d and \u201cworking on specific projects and collaborations\u201d.<\/p>\n

Guardiola told his squad on Monday night that he was leaving. He has been City\u2019s manager for 10 years, winning 17 major trophies, including this season\u2019s Carabao Cup and FA Cup. Hopes of a domestic treble ended on Tuesday when City\u2019s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth<\/a> made Arsenal the Premier League champions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maresca has agreed in principle a three-year deal to succeed Guardiola, whose assistant he was at City in 2022-23. Maresca has been out of work since leaving Chelsea on New Year\u2019s Day. Chelsea are in line for sizable compensation for the Italian, who departed with three and a half years on his deal, plus the club option of an extra year.<\/p>\n

Guardiola said with a nod to Manchester\u2019s history: \u201cThis is a city built from work. From graft. You see it in the colour of the bricks. From people who clocked in early, stayed late. The factories. The Pankhursts. The unions. The music. Simply the industrial revolution and how this changed the world. And I think I grew to understand that, and my teams did too. We worked. We suffered. We fought. And we did things our own way. Our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 55-year-old made further reference to the city\u2019s music by mentioning Noel Gallagher of Oasis. \u201cWhen I arrived, my first interview was with Noel Gallagher,\u201d he said. \u201cI walked out thinking: \u2018OK \u2026 Noel is here? This will be fun.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

City\u2019s chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, said: \u201cThere have been points along the way when he could have stopped, and it would have been enough. Somehow, Pep always found new energy and pushed on, finding different and innovative ways to continue winning and delivering success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City have confirmed Pep Guardiola is leaving at the end of the season. The manager is to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-658591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}