Pep Guardiola will be offered the chance to become Holland manager when he decides to leave Manchester City to follow in the footsteps of his mentor Johan Cruyff.
The Dutch FA have drawn up plans to convince the 51-year-old to join them as an international coach at the end of his reign with City.
Guardiola has a contract at City until 2023, when it is widely expected that he will end his trophy-laden spell with the reigning Premier League champions.
Under the Barcelona icon, City have three league titles, four consecutive EFL Cups, and an FA Cup.
The Dutch FA sounded out Guardiola about his future plans before he signed a new two-year extension with City last August, according to Sunday Mirror Sport.
They were told that the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss had unfinished business with the Blues.
The Spaniard has also made no secret that he harbours an ambition to manage a top international nation.
“The next step will be a national team, if the opportunity presents itself,” he said last year.'
The prospect of taking charge of the country of his mentor Johan Cruyff would be tantalising given it was Holland’s brilliant team of the 1970s that introduced Total Football to the world.
Cruyff brought Guardiola through from Barcelona’s youth team to play as a deep-lying midfielder in the team that won the club’s first Champions League in 1992.
He then leant on the former Ajax forward when he took over the reigns of the Catalan giants in 2009.
The late Dutchman’s influence on the City boss is so profound that Guardiola once said: “I knew nothing about football before knowing Cruyff.”
Louis Van Gaal is the current Holland manager after coming out of retirement to help the Oranje qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The former Manchester United boss took over the reigns for a third time in August, 2021 on a deal through to the World Cup.