Guardiola sets sights on EPL
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BAYERN Munich coach Pep Guardiola has admitted he wants to manage in the English Premier League in his first press conference since announcing he will leave the Bundesliga giant at the end of the season.
“I want to coach in England,” said the Spaniard yesterday, before adding that he “has no new club yet”.
Guardiola’s departure at the end of his third season in Bavaria and his replacement by Italian Carlo Ancelotti were announced by the club on December 20.
The former Barcelona coach has since been linked with Chelsea after Jose Mourinho was sacked, and also with Manchester City whose own manager Manuel Pellegrini is under contract until 2017.
“I have this possibility to go to England. It’s the right time,” said the Spaniard, who turns 45 this month. “I’m still young and I need new challenges. I haven’t had offers yet, I can’t say anything more for the moment.”
“I hope that (Karl-Heinz) Rummenigge (Bayern chairman) and the staff understand my decision, I’d be sorry if they were disappointed by my choice,” he added.
Guardiola quit Barcelona in 2012 despite being the most successful coach in the club’s history during his four-year reign.
In January 2013 he signed a three-year deal, worth a reported 22 million euros (US$24 million), to coach Bayern from July that year.
Bayern, already a dominant force having won the treble in 2013 of Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup under Jupp Heynckes, soon became almost unbeatable at home.
This season, Bayern has lost only two of 26 games and in the last two years swept five trophies, but the most desired, the European Cup, has so far eluded Guardiola in Germany.
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