Pep Guardiola, Manager of Manchester City, effectively confirmed that the experienced midfielder Ilkay Gundogan will stay in the club next season.
Last summer, the 34-year-old midfielder turned to his former club to force a return from Barcelona. Gundogan initially signed a one-year contract with the option of a 12-month expansion, which could be triggered by the club or automatically if the Germany international reaches a certain number of phenomena.
When asked whether this threshold will be fulfilled this season, Guardiola admitted: “I think so. I think so.”
After City sounded an extended magic of well below the elite levels of recent years, she has already started to rejuvenate the squad. In the winter window, more than £ 170 million were issued in the winter window with an average age of 21 years.
Guardiola recently announced that the club can no longer tolerate players who are unable to do the physical requirements of the game, to play a match every three days – doubts about the future of an experienced core from Gundogan, Bernardo Silva and Kevin de Bruyne.
Similar to Gundogan, De Bruynes Deal runs this summer, but Guardiola only referred to the Belgian that is prone to injury if he thinks about the future make-up of the squad.
“There are players here who are over 30 years old and will be part of the future of this club – except Kevin, where he and the club will decide,” emphasized Guardiola this week. “The others have contracts and I expect you to be here. You will help us? Yes or yes!”
The city boss expressly calls Gundogan, who has not officially announced his contract extension as part of the future of the squad. “There will be a lot of games next season and you can not only do this amount of games with new or the old – you all have to be together!” Guardiola continued. “I count on Gundo, I count on Bernie [Bernardo Silva]I count on all players who have a Man City Treaty – they are there! No doubt about it. And they will be really important at the end of this season and next season. “
Several reports have claimed that Guardiola will look up to eight players this summer to collect donations for even more investments. However, he was quickly the previous success of these experienced specialists. “I can’t find out my period here without Gundogan, Bernardo and Kevin … I am more grateful than you can ever imagine. The success we as a manager without these players had impossible.
“The legacy we will leave for the next – the players, sports directors, CEOs – from the past one or two decades, it happens due to this type of player. Not only this three, also others like John [Stones]Players who are no longer here. The reality is today, tomorrow, in the next few days, we are trying to win games and I will make decisions. It’s never about her. “