Guardiola has a clause to leave City … before they throw him out

Pep Guardiola and his history with Manchester City could end … when he wants. According to the Daily Mail, the Catalan coach included an escape clause in his contract when he renewed his relationship with the citizens in the summer of 2018 for two more years, the one he had and two more campaigns, until 2021. Guardiola, who had just finished To win his first Premier League in Manchester, he fixed the possibility of leaving the club in the summer of 2020 if certain conditions were met. There is currently a notable buzz around Manchester City given the direction the team is taking this season in the domestic competition. The citizens are now third in the Premier with 32 points, six behind Leicester (38) … and 14 points behind Liverpool (46)! In addition, they fell at the Etihad this past day in the Manchester derby against a reviled United (1-2). Bad sporting situation that has the Santpedor coach at the center of the target, who even stated that “we may not be here to compete against the best.” This has led Guardiola to have been seriously questioned for the first time since he worked as a coach. It did not happen in Barcelona or in Munich, but in Manchester. In fact, last month the Catalan dropped the possibility of leaving in his environment and made headlines throughout Europe before a possible new destination. Something that he later placated in public, even acknowledging that he was open to a renewal: “I am, yes. Although it is not about what the club wants or does not want. But for me, I want to see my players and the reaction of my players. I want to see the club, I want to see the players, I want to see how we continue to work together.Guardiola will now face key months, in which his team must come back in the Premier if he wants to qualify for his third consecutive, as well as a month of February in which the eighth of the Champions League are played, the only thing that now seems to redirect the path of the Catalan, who has in his contract the possibility of abandoning the ship before everything falls apart. In Manchester, initially reluctant to leave, they think about this possible scenario with Mauricio Pochettino as relief.