Guardiola could quit Man City in the summer, says former Blues midfielder

Pep Guardiola could walk away from Manchester City this summer, says Michael Brown, with the Blues seemingly planning for the future after allowing Mikel Arteta to head for Arsenal.

“Personally I think he’s going at the end of the season,” Brown told Radio 5 Live.

“Fran [Soriano] has come out as chief executive and said he doesn’t see that being the case, he sees him being part of the plans, it’s ongoing and he doesn’t see him leaving.

“His whole body language changed recently regarding what he’s achieved, when he’s hit his goals, and it just looks like he will be heading away from that.

“Mikel Arteta was probably in line to take over from Pep Guardiola so he will have been asking that question: If Pep Guardiola leaves am I going to be that person? Obviously the answers weren’t warm enough for him to have gone to Arsenal.

“I think that’s the case because he wouldn’t have gone, he would have stayed there at Manchester City and waited his turn – whether that was in the summer or further or slightly after that for him to take over.

“The noises obviously weren’t enough for him and it was too good an opportunity for him not to take.”