Manchester City’s Decline Is Normal After 6 EPL Titles – Pep Guardiola

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said that he’ll take a break from coaching once he quits the club. He recently revealed that the break could be as long as 15 years, and fans have been reacting.

Speaking during an interview with the press, Pep shared that it is already decided that he’ll stop coaching for a while as soon as he leaves City.

According to him, he clearly needs a lot of time to focus on himself and his body, therefore a lengthy break after his EPL experience is very necessary.

“I know that after this stage with City I’m going to stop, that’s for sure. It’s decided, more than decided.

I don’t know how long I’ll stop for, a year, two years, three years, five, ten, fifteen, I don’t know. But I will leave after this spell with City because I need to stop and focus on myself, on my body,” he said.

Stressing that Manchester City’s decline is completely normal after six EPL titles, Pep noted that his players are only human.

He concluded by saying that the decline even took longer than expected because it was always going to happen.

“I’ve spent four or five months this year in every away stadium with the crowd chanting, ‘You’ll be sacked in the morning. They’re going to fire you’ There’s no other profession, architect, teacher, doctor, journalist… where 60,000 people ask you to lose your job.

When you win six Premier Leagues, there comes a time when you go down. It’s human nature … it’s a process that had to happen, it happens, it took longer to happen, and when it did, it went deeper than we could have imagined.

It hasn’t been that bad. In the end we reached the final of the FA Cup and finished third, we didn’t finish twelfth. In hindsight, we’ll see that it hasn’t been such a bad season. But we did go many months without winning a game. We went 13 or 14 games without a win, and that was … it had never happened before. But it puts you in your place.

It has been very healthy for us. Because success can confuse you. It hasn’t confused us for many years, but this year the players have been injured a lot … but I think it will be very good for the next five or ten years. And next year [this coming season] we’ll do better,” he added.