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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Will Unwin

Pep Guardiola pledges to quit football when he loses love of the game

The Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, talks to Phil Foden after the Carabao Cup third-round match against Watford.
Pep Guardiola is not interested in a director of football role in the future, joking: ‘I would criticise my manager a lot.’ Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd/Richard Sellers/Apl/Sportsphoto

Pep Guardiola says he will quit ­football entirely when he loses the passion to manage after revealing he has no ambition to take a different role in the game. The Manchester City manager’s contract ends next summer but he is yet to decide whether to stay, although he would consider managing elsewhere.

City travel to Molineux, where they suffered their first league defeat of last season, on Sunday hoping to maintain their unbeaten start, having won five of their opening seven matches. Guardiola is chasing a fifth consecutive Premier League title and the seventh of his nine-year tenure.

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