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Pep Guardiola believes he would struggle to find a better club than Manchester City, but he still will not discuss his long-term future at the Etihad Stadium.
The Spaniard’s contract with the Premier League champions expires at the end of this campaign, by which point he will have had seven years at the helm.
In that period, he has four league titles, four EFL Cups and one FA Cup, although the Champions League crown he was brought in to help secure continues to elude him.
Guardiola’s stay at City now matches the time he spent at former clubs Barcelona and Bayern Munich combined, and he acknowledges his working conditions could hardly be better.
“[Would I] stay in another place for seven years? No, I don’t think so,” he told The Athletic. “It is difficult to find what I have here as a manager.
“To be a manager for a long time, you need to be so supported. The results help a lot, that is undeniable. In this world, they sack you, they fire you, we know that.
“But at big clubs, part of the success of the manager is the chairman, the sporting director especially, the CEOs and all the people here.
“It goes to the media, fans and players. There is stability. This is why I think only in few clubs this can happen.”
With the club season set to take a hiatus for the World Cup imminently, City could move to tie Guardiola down to a new long-term deal.
The manager dodged the question on imminent talks, however, only adding: “I’ve said many times, I don’t talk about that.
“Everything is under control. The decision will be made together with the club the moment it has to be made. When we have time, when the moment we feel it both sides, we take a decision.”
