Manchester City may have found a branch to hang onto to curb its dizzying fall. It would seem, according to our British colleagues, that Pep Guardiola and Raheem Sterling are willing to stay in City even in the event of temporary exclusion from European competitions. As a reminder, the Mancunian club appealed the sanction pronounced Friday and should be fixed before the end of the season, but the Catalan coach would have told friends as well as the management of the club that he intended at least to honor his contract which runs until 2021.
"He is not the type of person whose first thought is to leave when things get tough," a source close to Guardiola told The Daily Mail . While Juventus seemed to be interested in welcoming him, Pep would have also communicated his decision to the players on Saturday.
Journalists hoped to be able to ask her the question Tuesday at a press conference before the championship game against West Ham, but it is ultimately not at all certain that it will stand, as it is a postponed match of a few days for reasons of bad weather conditions and on which he has already expressed himself.
Are players free to choose their future?
As for the players, the situation is more complicated, the Daily Mail assuring that they will stay while the Telegraph says the opposite in case of defeat on appeal. Raheem Sterling, coveted by Real Madrid, the opponent of the Citizens in the knockout stages of the Champions League next week, will stay, says SkySports.
In the Daily Mail , his lifelong agent Aidy Ward did the minimum service to reassure everyone about the 25-year-old striker's future by saying that he was "solely focused on Manchester City and (that he will not be) distracted by rumors of current transfers ”. The Telegraph also ensures that the club would have suggested to players that they would be free to choose at the end of the season.
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