In February 2016 it was said Pep Guardiola Next season he will replace Manuel Pellegrini as coach of Manchester Unitedbut the Catalan left them “in shock” after rejecting a move to Old Trafford to become coach of City of Manchester. At Old Trafford they are confident of the arrival of the former Barça player, according to the English press.
Pep announced in December 2015 that he would be leaving Bayern Munich at the end of the campaign and his future became a huge topic of conversation for the rest of the season. Miguel Delaney explained them in his book ‘States of play’, where he detailed the “real shock” it was for United at the time to learn they would not have Guardiola.
And United feel their history and weight as a club outweighs anything, especially with the way Guardiola has argued about it through his friendship with Sir Alex Ferguson over the years. There was an impression that a deal was close and it was quite a surprise for them when in December of that year they received the news that he had chosen City. United then turned their attention to José Mourinho.
Manchester United’s history with Guardiola goes back a long way. In his 2015 autobiography, ‘Leading’, Ferguson recalled: “I had dinner with Pep Guardiola in New York in 2012, but I didn’t make any direct proposals to him because retirement wasn’t on my agenda at the time. got a enviable number of titles at Barcelona and I admired him a lot. I asked him to call me before accepting an offer from another club, but he didn’t and ended up signing for Bayern in July 2013.
Source: La Verdad
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