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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has provided a fresh update on whether he will leave the club at the end of the 2025\/26 campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n Since arriving at the Etihad in 2016, Guardiola has guided Man City to 16 major honours, including six Premier League titles and one UEFA Champions League.<\/p>\n Guardiola has already added the Carabao Cup to his trophy cabinet earlier this year and has the opportunity to win the FA Cup for the third time when his side face Chelsea on what will be the coach\u2019s 24th trip to Wembley on Saturday afternoon (May 16).<\/p>\n Ahead of the match, there have been suggestions that this could, in fact, be Guardiola\u2019s final match at Wembley, with his future beyond the current campaign in doubt.<\/p>\n During a press conference just hours before the showpiece match, the Spaniard suggested he had won 19 titles in a decade, not 16, pointing to the three Community Shield victories during his time at City before speaking candidly about his future.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah. Of course, 19 titles in 10 years is not bad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey don\u2019t need to wait until I\u2019m leaving, they know I\u2019ve been fun. I\u2019ve been fucking fun. So, 19 titles, fighting for 20 in 10 years, it\u2019s not bad, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked if the FA Cup final potentially being his last match as City manager at Wembley brought him a tinge of sadness, he said: \u201cNo way. No way. I have one year (left on my) contract.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m so disappointed that they don\u2019t make a stand for Pep (at Wembley), considering the number of times I\u2019ve been there \u2013 at least a lounge or a box. Maybe I\u2019ll go 24 more times.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a special place, with Barcelona in 1992 (winning the European Cup as a player) and then against Manchester United with Barcelona (winning the Champions League as head coach in 2011) for the second time, and many times since I\u2019ve been here with semi-finals and finals. It\u2019s really good to go to Wembley again. Top.\u201d<\/p>\n If Guardiola wins the FA Cup, he will become just the fifth manager to lift the crown four times, alongside John Nicholson, Sir Alex Ferguson, George Ramsay and Arsene Wenger.<\/p>\n Guardiola\u2019s current contract is set to expire in the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has provided a fresh update on whether he will leave…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Guardiola issues Man City exit update<\/h2>\n