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Pep Guardiola: Manchester City boss could stay beyond 2024-25 season

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1 month ago

July 26, 2024

Simon Stone

Pep Guardiola says he could stay at Manchester City beyond the end of the season.

Manager Guardiola’s contract expires at the end of the coming campaign.

In the aftermath of City’s historic fourth successive Premier League title success, Guardiola raised doubts over his own future when he said he was “closer to leaving than staying”.

The Spaniard has been in charge of City for eight seasons and has won the league on six occasions, part of an overall 17-trophy haul.

Speaking to reporters in New York ahead of City’s pre-season encounter with AC Milan at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, Guardiola said nothing had been decided.

“I didn’t say I was leaving,” he said.

“Nine years at the same club is an eternity. I don’t rule out extending the contract. I want to be sure it is the right decision for the club and the players.

“When I decide, I will talk with my CEO and sporting director. But I want to start the season, and look at how everything is going and how connected we are. After, we will see.”

Guardiola said he hopes to be in charge for the expanded 32-team Club World Cup, to be held in the United States next summer, but was not sure about the tournament itself, which is at the centre of a dispute between world governing body Fifa and the major players’ unions.

City could end up playing 75 matches across the season, starting with the Community Shield with Manchester United at Wembley on 10 August and potentially ending in the Club World Cup final in the United States on 13 July.

Striker Erling Haaland says it is impossible for any player to be fresh for so many matches.

“It is difficult to be sharp if you play 70 games a year,” Haaland said.

“You could see at the Euros how tired people will be. Some will get a lot of vacation. You have to work with the people around you to be the best version of yourself.”

Not that Guardiola seemed to have much sympathy for the Norwegian.

Guardiola allowed the City players involved in the Copa America and Euro 2024 latter stages to choose when they returned to pre-season training because he did not want them coming back exhausted.

Norway, for whom Haaland plays, failed to qualify for the Euros.

“Has to rest more,” said Guardiola of Haaland. “If he is tired, go to bed early. Tired is an excuse.”

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Republic of Ireland 0-2 England: What BBC Radio 5 Live saw in Lee Carsley’s first game

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3 hours ago

September 7, 2024

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Ian Dennis

Even before we had gone live on air for 5 Live, it was noticeable how involved Lee Carsley was with the warm-up.

The interim head coach even placed the red and white cones out in the England half of the field.

He was waiting on the pitch as a solitary figure before the players came out to warm up.

Carsley was actively involved along with his assistants Ashley Cole and Joleon Lescott. It’s a significant change in approach to that of Gareth Southgate or previous managers.

I even remember Fabio Capello, when he was England head coach, watching intently from the sidelines along with his assistant Franco Baldini – but they would study and monitor the opposition.

Carsley was purely focused on his England players and looked comfortable as a tracksuit manager.

John Murray

If you were looking for a different approach from Lee Carsley, it was there right from the start. There was an initial mis-step when he turned right to the home dugout when he first walked down the tunnel, but it was a tracksuited Carsley who laid out the balls and the cones and oversaw the whole of the warm-up.

It served to underline how he wishes to be seen very much as the head coach. And if England replicate the first-half performance, he will not be interim for too much longer.

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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Finlay Graham, Emma Wiggs and Charlotte Henshaw win trio of golds for GB

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September 7, 2024

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Finlay Graham, Emma Wiggs and Charlotte Henshaw won gold medals on Saturday morning at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, taking Great Britain’s tally to 45.

Graham, 24, won the men’s C1-3 road race, while Wiggs, 44, was victorious in the women’s VL2 200m Va’a Single final.

Henshaw, 37, continued GB’s Para-canoe success, winning the women’s VL3 Single final, where there was also a silver medal for Hope Gordon. David Phillipson took silver in the men’s KL2 Single final.

Daniel Powell has guaranteed himself at least a silver medal in the men’s -90kg men’s J1 judo.

In Para-equestrian, Sophie Wells won the bronze medal in the Grade V individual freestyle event.

Great Britain now have a total of 106 medals at the Paralympics, including those 45 golds. Only China, with 85 golds and 195 total medals, have more.

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US Open: Jack Draper on semi-final defeat against Jannik Sinner

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11 hours ago

September 7, 2024

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Jack Draper says being sick on court in his US Open semi-final defeat was “the worst feeling ever”, but he believes Grand Slam success is “just a matter of time”.

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