{"id":1107484,"date":"2019-09-21T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1107484"},"modified":"2019-09-21T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T11:31:07","slug":"manchester-city-guardiola-arteta-future","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/manchester-city-guardiola-arteta-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City news: Guardiola delivers verdict on Arteta future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pep Guardiola has backed assistant Mikel Arteta to succeed him as Manchester City manager when he eventually steps down. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Catalan&#8217;s contract runs until the end of next season and he has repeatedly expressed his intention to remain in management once his time at the Etihad is up.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Could Arteta succeed Guardiola? Five things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Guardiola has won five major trophies with City in his past two seasons.<\/li>\n<li>But his contract expires next year and he has expressed a desire to continue in management.<\/li>\n<li>Arteta has often been tipped as Guardiola&#8217;s potential successor.<\/li>\n<li>The Spaniard was pipped to the Arsenal job by Unai Emery last summer.<\/li>\n<li>Guardiola says Arteta is &#8220;already an incredible manager&#8221; set for a big future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7373702-tammy-abraham-can-equal-a-unique-luis-suarez-feat-vs-liverpool\/embed\/v4?image_option=full\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Arteta was thought to be one of the frontrunners for the vacant Arsenal job last summer but was eventually beaten to the post by Unai Emery.<\/p>\n<p>But when asked if he believes Arteta could succeed him in the Man City dugout, Guardiola was lavish in his praise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure, yes. He will have success, yes,&#8221; Guardiola <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/manchestercity\/pep-guardiola-backs-assistant-mikel-arteta-to-succeed-him-as-man-city-manager-a4242776.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1107147\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/champions-league-combined-xi-worst-best-matchday-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1107147\" class=\"wp-image-1107147 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19143740\/champions-league-gw1-best-worst-xis-featured.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19143740\/champions-league-gw1-best-worst-xis-featured.png 1200w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19143740\/champions-league-gw1-best-worst-xis-featured-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19143740\/champions-league-gw1-best-worst-xis-featured-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19143740\/champions-league-gw1-best-worst-xis-featured-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19143740\/champions-league-gw1-best-worst-xis-featured-66x37.png 66w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19143740\/champions-league-gw1-best-worst-xis-featured-620x350.png 620w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19143740\/champions-league-gw1-best-worst-xis-featured-940x530.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1107147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">READ MORE:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/champions-league-combined-xi-worst-best-matchday-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salzburg rampant as Real Madrid fail: Best and worst combined XIs from matchday one of the Champions League<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSooner or later it\u2019s going to happen. He\u2019s a young, young manager, he\u2019s 37, 38, he&#8217;s so young, he has experience already to handle big players and teams and when it\u2019s going to happen, it\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arteta was a friend of Guardiola&#8217;s during their time together at Barcelona, where both graduated from the club&#8217;s esteemed La Masia academy.<\/p>\n<p>The former Everton and Arsenal midfielder was enlisted to Guardiola&#8217;s staff at Man City thanks to his extensive knowledge and experience of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>This, coupled with his &#8220;incredible work rate&#8221;, is why Guardiola believes Arteta is the ideal candidate for management.<\/p>\n<p>The City manager added: \u201cHe has an incredible work ethic, and he has a special talent to analyse what happens, and to find the solutions. We talk a lot about what he believes and feels. He helped me a lot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chelsea Must Play Frank Lampard&#039;s Back Three w\/Rory Jennings\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJVdL5KI2qc?start=22&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially in the first year, he knew the Premier League like, for example, in games against Stoke or whatever. He can tell me the players we will face better than myself because he played against them and was in the Premier League for 10 or 11 years, that\u2019s a long time and that is why he helped me a lot and he still helps me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s so happy when we win, but suffers when we don\u2019t and that is why he tries to find a solution. He\u2019s an incredible human being, with incredible values about what it means in the locker room and to be together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is already an incredible manager and he\u2019ll have incredible success in his future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola has backed assistant Mikel Arteta to succeed him as Manchester City manager when he eventually steps down. The Catalan&#8217;s contract runs until the end of next season and he has repeatedly expressed his intention to remain in management once his time at the Etihad is up. Could Arteta succeed Guardiola? Five things to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":1107485,"parent":0,"menu_order":5052,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Pep Guardiola has backed assistant Mikel Arteta to succeed him as Manchester City manager when he eventually steps down.","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1107484","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"external_featured_image_url":"","hide_featured_image_pattern":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester City news: Guardiola delivers verdict on Arteta future | Squawka | EN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pep Guardiola has backed assistant Mikel Arteta to succeed him as Manchester City manager when he eventually steps down.\" 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