Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini does not seem worried about speculation linking Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola to the club.
The Spanish coach has been a well-known long-term target for the Citizens and rumours surfaced earlier this week that he is poised to reject a new contract offer from the Bundesliga champions and has agreed to move to the Etihad at the end of the season.
Guardiola mysteriously pulled out of Friday’s press conference for ‘personal reasons’ after reports that he and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi were going to both move to Manchester in 2016.
Responding to the rumours, Pellegrini described the publications as ‘rumours’.
It’s a rumour we’ve had the last two-and-a-half seasons. I don’t have a problem with that.
Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has sinced revealed that the former Barcelona boss’ future will be decided by the end of the year and remained adamant that, if Guardiola were to leave the club, they would continue to have success with someone else in charge.
Things always move on. There is no person in the world who becomes irreplaceable at some stage. Players come, players go. The same goes for the coach – they come and they go too sooner or later.
