Chapter 348: Manchester City invited Guardiola to coach, shocking the entire football world!

"The defending champion was in a slump and was tied by the relegation team!"

"Manchester City is in a slump, the Blues may top the list!"

After the game, the outside world rushed to report on it.

For many people, Manchester City's draw with a relegation team away from home was definitely a huge upset.

And if it weren't for Lin Quan's incredible performance, in which he scored two goals to save the team, Manchester City might have lost.

Before the start of this round of games, the Blues Chelsea were only 2 points behind Manchester City.

Now that Manchester City is tied, as long as they can beat Liverpool away from home, they can catch up with Manchester City in points.

At Anfield, after 90 minutes of play, the final score on the scoreboard was 1:2. The home team was in front and the away team was behind.

The Reds failed to defend their home court. After scoring the first goal, they were chased by the Blues for two goals in a row, suffered a reversal and lost the red-blue battle.

At this point, Chelsea finally caught up with Manchester City in the standings.

They are only behind Manchester City in goal difference and are temporarily in second place.

But the current status of the two teams is very different. Chelsea has won two consecutive games.

Manchester City has recently fallen into a slump, losing consecutive games in the League Cup and the league.

In the absence of a head coach, even Manchester City themselves cannot say whether they can win the next game.

As the news of Pellegrini's resignation became public, the news that Manchester City was without a head coach became widely known in the football world.

This time point is very awkward, as most of the famous coaches have already been taken.

Apart from Ranieri, the tinkerer who was fired not long ago, there are no outstanding coaches available in the market.

Ranieri has long been proven to be not good at leading top clubs, and asking him to coach Manchester City is not the best choice for both parties.

Therefore, Manchester City can only temporarily let assistant coach Brian take over the position of head coach.

At the same time, they began to contact other famous coaches privately to see if they could bring them to Manchester during the winter break.

Among them, the first person that Manchester City Club thought of was Lin Quan’s adoptive father Guardiola.

November 21, before the start of the 12th round of the Premier League.

At an estate outside Munich, Guardiola met an old acquaintance.

"Mr. Chairman, why are you here?"

Guardiola was a little surprised to see Manchester City chairman Fahim appearing outside his manor.

Because of Lin Quan, Guardiola has had contact with everyone in Manchester City Club.

When Mansour personally went to Munich to recruit them father and son, Fahim accompanied Mansour, and the two had already met at that time.

"Haha, the situation is urgent, I have to come out in person!"

Fahim felt slightly relieved when he saw that Guardiola did not refuse to contact him.

Before he came, he inquired about the situation in the Bundesliga and found out that Guardiola was not having a comfortable time at Bayern.

Although Bayern's performance in the league remains as stable as ever, the Bundesliga has reached the 12th round and Bayern remains unbeaten, and is far ahead of the second place in the standings.

As Dortmund gradually declines and other teams fail to rise successfully, there are almost no teams in the entire Bundesliga that can pose a threat to Bayern.

Therefore, even though the schedule is not even half finished, Bayern can almost announce that they have secured the championship in advance and completed the feat of winning three consecutive championships.

However, Guardiola's ability to control the team has greatly declined, and the situation is getting worse day by day.

The reason for this is, on the one hand, that his reforms caused dissatisfaction among many players.

Guardiola is not good at dealing with the players in the team. He always mentions Lin Quan and Messi in training, which makes the players very disgusted.

Secondly, Guardiola always likes to make players undergo transformation. For example, he likes to let the defensive midfielder play as a central defender.

Mascherano of Barcelona and Martinez of Bayern were both transformed at his request.

It would be fine if this transformation is successful, but if it fails, the player will be ruined.

Martinez has been plagued by injuries this season, and it's hard to say that it has nothing to do with his change in position and playing style.

In addition, Germany's disastrous defeat in the World Cup has led to growing calls in German football for things to go right.

Under such circumstances, the relaxed atmosphere of the past few years when outsiders were good at chanting sutras no longer exists.

Neither the fans nor the club are friendly to Guardiola anymore.

The combination of these factors has led to Guardiola's current predicament.

Fahim personally took action because he felt that he had the greatest chance of persuading Guardiola to join the team.

Guardiola is very suitable for Manchester City in terms of both ability and tactical style.

In particular, his close relationship with Lin Quan and the appreciation of the team's boss have given him an advantageous position in the competition with other famous coaches.

Therefore, if Guardiola can be persuaded to join Manchester City during the winter break, it will be the best outcome for both parties.

"Come in!"

Guardiola shrugged, he basically guessed the other party's intention.

The news of Manchester City's coaching change reached Germany a week ago. In addition, Guardiola had been secretly paying attention to Lin Quan's situation, so he knew the news earlier than others.

"Time is tight, so I won't beat around the bush!"

After entering the house, Fahim said to Guardiola straight to the point: "We hope to invite Mr. Guardiola to coach Manchester City this winter!"

Fahim was indeed very direct. After entering the room, he didn't waste any time and directly stated his purpose.

With only one month left in the winter break, the time left for Manchester City to select a head coach is getting shorter and shorter.

If they cannot select a suitable head coach before the Champions League knockout stage, it will be difficult for them to participate in this year's Champions League.

Guardiola was not only not disgusted by Manchester City's direct attitude, but was quite appreciative of it.

Both parties are busy and have a lot of things to deal with.

He doesn't have time to play along with the other party.

"Haha, thank you Mr. Chairman for your honesty, but I haven't decided whether to coach in the Premier League yet..."

Hearing Guardiola's words, Fahim's eyes dimmed.

Does this count as a polite refusal?

When he came, he was full of confidence, thinking that with his relationship with Lin Quan, it should be easy to convince Guardiola to join.

It seems that I thought it was too simple!

"But I personally am not opposed to cooperating with Manchester City!"

Fahim had almost given up and was about to get up and say goodbye.

As a result, he heard Guardiola's next words, which almost made him vomit blood: You will die if you don't breathe heavily when you talk!

However, Guardiola's words still surprised him:

"Great, Mr. Guardiola, I brought you a contract from the club, do you want to take a look?"

Guardiola waved his hand, indicating that there was no rush for this matter: "You know that I still have a contract with Bayern, right?"

Guardiola's contract with Bayern is for three years and the penalty for breach of contract is 10 million euros.

If Manchester City invites him to coach, the breach of contract fee naturally cannot be paid by him.

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"Of course, if you want to terminate the contract, we will compensate you for the losses caused by your breach of contract!"

Fahim thought that 10 million euros was nothing. For the wealthy Manchester City, this was not a problem at all.

What's important is that they kidnapped the most talented and prestigious coach in football.

This is definitely a rare good thing for Manchester City. Its significance is probably second only to when they signed Lin Quan from the transfer market!

After Fahim promised to help him solve the contract problems, Guardiola immediately looked through the contract that the other party brought.

To be honest, even though Guardiola was prepared, he was still shocked after seeing the conditions offered by the other party.

Manchester City is really too arrogant! The contract they offered is for four years, with an annual salary of 18 million euros.

There is no doubt that this is the highest annual salary in the entire coaching industry, no doubt about it!

Compared to his annual salary at Bayern, the annual salary offered by Manchester City is twice as high! If he signs this contract, he will become the highest-paid head coach, just like Lin Quan is the highest-paid player in the entire football world.

It is said that the rich people in the Middle East are wealthy and spend money lavishly. Today I finally saw it.

Guardiola is very satisfied with his annual salary, but apart from the annual salary, he is more concerned about his authority within the club.

There are two types of head coaches in the Premier League. One is the head coach that is more common in football, and the other is the head coach who also serves as the club manager.

The latter can be called a football manager! This authority was more common in the Premier League in the early years, but with the continuous advancement of professionalism and commercialization, fewer and fewer head coaches have this authority.

After Ferguson retired, Wenger is probably the only one who can be called a football manager.

Guardiola's ambitions are not that big and he is not very keen on interfering in the management of the club.

But he needs to have the highest transfer authority so that he can control the resources in his hands and buy the players he likes.

Instead, the club bought a large number of excellent players in the transfer market but they did not meet his employment standards.

Buying such a player may not be able to help the team, but may even drag the team down.

As for the club's operational authority, Guardiola does not need too much, but he needs a certain degree of decision-making power to decide whether to accept commercial matches.

If the team is sent around the world to play commercial games just to make money, and this affects the team's preparations, then it would be putting the cart before the horse.

Guardiola's mind is simple. He just wants to work out the most reasonable and best tactics and transform the team into the best one in his mind.

And led the team to win honor after honor and break record after record.

What he values ​​is the experience in the process and the joy of gaining honor.

Apart from that, he had no interest in the power struggles and intrigues within the club.

"I'm sorry, I don't have the authority in this regard. I need to report this to the big boss after I go back and ask him to make a decision."

After listening to Guardiola's request, Fahim apologized to the other party and told him the truth.

Guardiola nodded and expressed his understanding.

Although Fahim is the chairman, the team is not his own private property, so the decision-making power on major matters must be in the hands of the big boss Mansour.

The request made by Guardiola may be unacceptable to many giants.

But at Bayern, after being teased repeatedly over matters involving player transfers, Guardiola is determined to claim that power.

He doesn't want to see the players he likes being sold for money by short-sighted clubs, nor does he want to see the players he doesn't want being forcibly bought back by the club and forced onto him, causing conflicts in his locker room.

Fahim understood the other party's idea, but from the club's perspective, if the head coach had too much authority, it would obviously be detrimental to the club chairman and the owner's control of the overall situation.

Instead of returning to the UK, Fahim flew directly to Abu Dhabi to meet Manchester City's big boss.

When Mansour learned that Guardiola was willing to accept Manchester City's invitation to coach in Manchester, he was immediately overjoyed.

"Just give it to him. As long as he is willing to continue working at Manchester City, why not let him be the manager of Manchester City?"

Mansour is very optimistic about Guardiola's coaching prospects at Manchester City, so he is very tolerant of Guardiola's requirements.

He has a broad vision and seems to have seen the bright future of Guardiola coming to Manchester City and working together with Lin Quan and his son to help Manchester City build a huge empire.

Wait until Manchester City's influence and commercial value surpasses that of the Red Devils Manchester United and even Real Madrid.

Then the price he paid was completely worth it! After getting Mansour's authorization, Fahim quickly sent someone to contact Guardiola and officially began to deal with the contract between Guardiola and Bayern.

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The chairman of Manchester City has been flying around the world recently, which has made people wonder whether Manchester City is looking for a famous coach from all over the world to bring him to the Etihad Stadium. For a time, reports on this topic filled the headlines of major media.

Based on the current situation, major media have listed a large number of candidate names for famous coaches: Lippi, Hiddink, Scolari, Klinsmann, etc., have all been on Manchester City's rumored list.

These famous coaches have good past records, and their fame and strength can match Manchester City's requirements.

Moreover, they are not coaching for top clubs now, so they are most likely to accept Manchester City's invitation and return to the top five leagues.

"Blue Moon coaching change, who will take charge of Manchester City? "

"The World Cup champion coach is rumored to be in a relationship with Manchester City and may return to the top five leagues!"

While these media reporters were making the news, some coaches also came to take advantage of the popularity.

They hinted to reporters that Manchester City had contacted them privately in order to raise their price.

However, when a reporter released a photo of Fahim meeting privately with Bayern coach Guardiola in Munich, the entire football world was shocked! !

(End of this chapter)