{"id":9408,"date":"2026-05-16T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9408"},"modified":"2026-05-16T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:02:24","slug":"bacary-sagna-names-the-perfect-man-to-replace-pep-guardiola-at-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9408","title":{"rendered":"Bacary Sagna Names The &#8220;Perfect Man&#8221; To Replace Pep Guardiola At Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Former Man City defender Bacary Sagna has backed club legend Vincent Kompany to succeed Pep Guardiola in the dugout at the Etihad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sagna played alongside the Belgian for three years following his move from Arsenal in 2014, and asked who he would like to become the club\u2019s manager after Guardiola, he said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Vincent Kompany. He\u2019s an ex-captain, a Manchester City lover and was one of the first big players to arrive at City after Robinho.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/mancitynews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?240402-33626\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Man City News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think Kompany would be the perfect man for City. It makes sense to bring him home to his club.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Man City fans (and Guardiola) would back Kompany\u2019s appointment<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed theme=\"sp-theme\" customer-id=\"0b629b85ba2abe5ff39df9829ee5fb57\" image-id=\"ARCH381798_00216789\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; aspect-ratio: 2578\/1450; max-width: 2578px;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>Sagna is ana agreement with the majority of supporters in wanting their former captain back at the club.<\/p>\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t be forgotten that Guardiola has also predicted that Kompany will manage the Cityzens. Speaking back in 2023, he said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis destiny to be Man City boss is written in the stars. Sooner or later, he will be manager here. It is going to happen. I don\u2019t know when, but it is going to happen. It\u2019s my feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kompany was Burnley coach at the time, but since then, he has gone on to bigger and better things, winning back-to-back Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<h2>Another manager is the favourite to succeed Guardiola<\/h2>\n<p>Despite the clamour for Kompany\u2019s return, though, it appears that City may go in another direction if they do appoint a new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Reliable reports suggest that ex-Chelsea boss <strong>Enzo Maresca<\/strong> is currently the leading contender for the position if Guardiola calls it a day at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Kompany is happy to stay at Bayern, for the time being, but you do think it is only a matter of time (as Sagna says) before he comes home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more news on Man City? Add Man City News as a preferred source on Google<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Man City defender Bacary Sagna has backed club legend Vincent Kompany to succeed Pep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9408","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\/9408","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=9408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}