Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has confirmed that he is not considering a return to Bayern Munich again in the near future.
The Spanish coach left Bayern in 2016 to move to City and reap many local achievements with him, but speculation remains about his future and his next step in the event of leaving the English club.
Before the friendly match against Bayern today, Saturday, in the preparatory round for the new season, Guardiola discussed the possibility of his return to the Bavarian club.
What did Guardiola say?
The Manchester City coach said in a press statement about returning to Bayern: “No, I will be too old, and now they have an exceptional coach and they are doing a good job in the transfer market, so this possibility seems remote, I may return to them only, but to visit.”
“Of course I have a lot of love for Bayern, I was very happy with them and I look forward to seeing many people from them again.”
He explained: “It has been an incredible part of my life, I still have an apartment in Munich, and after the epidemic is over, maybe it is time to visit the city of which I have great memories.”
How did he talk about the departure of Robert Lewandowski?
Coach Julian Nagelsmann suffered a strong shock this summer, with the departure of his Polish striker to Barcelona, and therefore Guardiola decided to direct his full support to overcome this blow.
Guardiola said: “He is a young coach but he has enough experience through his experience with Leipzig, and now he is at Bayern Munich where the demands and expectations are high.”
He continued: “I can cite us, now we have Erling Haaland and Alvarez in the team and they will have a positive impact on us, but before they came we scored a lot of goals last season and won the English Premier League and qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions League and we were one of the most scoring teams in Europe.”
He ended his speech: “So Bayern have the ability to score goals and that is the most important thing. It is difficult to replace Lewandowski, but Nagelsmann is a talented coach who has a lot of ideas and will find the right way to replace him.”