Pep Guardiola is expected to leave Manchester City at the end of the season and the Spaniard has been linked with the Manchester United job in the past
Pep Guardiola has dismissed the possibility of a switch to Manchester United once his contract with City ends, despite previously expressing that he could envision himself managing there one day.
Before joining the Citizens two years prior, Guardiola confessed that he could see himself at the helm at Old Trafford, having received an invitation of a phone call from Sir Alex Ferguson to discuss the club. Guardiola's close friend and journalist Marti Perarnau said of the manager in his book Pep Confidential: "I like this atmosphere. I could see myself coaching here one day.
"Pep had said something very similar a few months before, at Manchester United. The day after beating Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final, Guardiola and Estiarte travelled to Manchester to watch their next opponents in action. It was May 4, 2011, and the pair sat together in the stands of Old Trafford watching Sir Alex Ferguson's team beat Schalke 4-1."
In the book 'Leading', Ferguson spoke of how he and Guardiola actually met ahead of the Scotsman's last season at Old Trafford in 2011. He wrote: "I had dinner with Pep Guardiola in New York in 2012, but couldn't make him any direct proposal because retirement was not on my agenda at that point."He had already won an enviable number of trophies with Barcelona and I admired him greatly.
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