Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has said a break from football would ‘do him good’ despite having just signed a new deal with the reigning Premier League champions
Pep Guardiola has come clean about his desire for a hiatus from football, suggesting that a break would “do him good”.
The Manchester City boss has confessed his love for the thrill provided by his Premier League job, with Guardiola having inked a new two-year deal to stay at the Etihad despite their current poor form, reports the Mirror.
Yet, in a surprising revelation during an interview with a renowned Spanish chef after signing his new deal, Guardiola revealed to a famous Spanish chef Dani Garcia on his Desmontadito YouTube channel: “I want to leave it and go and play golf but I can’t. A time will come when I feel it’s enough and I’ll definitely stop then.
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“I’m not going to manage another team. I’m not talking about the long-term future but what I’m not going to do is leave Manchester City and go to another country to do the same thing as I am now.
“I wouldn’t have the energy to do so. I’m still here doing what I am today. But the thought of starting off somewhere else, with all the process of the training and so on… no, no, no! Maybe a national team but that’s different.”
He added: “I should stop, like these chefs that go to other countries, stop and see what we’ve done well and what we could do better and when you’re busy all day day after day you don’t have time to do that. I think stopping would do me good.”
The conversation then turned to what he would like to do when he calls time on his managerial career. Guardiola said: “I’m still young and when I stop, there’s several things I want to do. One of them is to learn French, dedicate my free time to myself so I can play golf and then begin to learn how to cook simple things.”
And then the Spaniard explained how he deals with disappointing performances, of which there have been plenty for City lately with their latest clash seeing them drop points in a 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace last weekend.
“The starting point with coping with the problems of defeat would be being with people, your family basically,” said Guardiola. “But no-one can really console the loneliness of the football manager.
“You have people beside you but the bad decisions, why have I done that, it’s gone wrong because I did this, I didn’t push them enough….the pain of the defeat, you feel it alone.
“You might have friends around you, but when you close that bedroom door and turn off the light there’s no consolation. You have to let one or two days pass and then start again.”