Pep Guardiola sits on the coaching bench at Manchester City.
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Since the departure of Mikael Arteta, who became chief coach at Arsenal, Pep Guardiola has not had a real assistant manager at Manchester City. That should change now.
- After the departure of Mikael Arteta is at Manchester City a job as Assistant coach vacant.
- Pep Guardiola* wants to fill this position again.
- Is in conversation Xabi Alonso, the former strategist in the midfield of FC Bayern*.
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Munich – Pep Guardiola * is known for having a large staff of employees around it. Whether one at FC Barcelona, later at FC Bayern* or now at his current club Manchester City. When Guardiola hired as a coach on Säbener Strasse in 2013, he added four employees to the coaching team with whom he had previously worked trustingly at FC Barcelona.
While Guardiola currently has employees in the extended staff with whom he also worked at FC Bayern *, an important position is currently not filled. That of the assistant coach. One could say that the Catalan has two assistants: Brian Kidd and Rodolfo Borrell.
Xabi Alonso to Manchester City? Leave as assistant coach after leaving Arteta
But the most important one is missing: Mikael Arteta. The 38-year-old, who was considered to be the right-hand man and confidante of Guardiolas, took advantage of the hour at the end of 2019 to become head coach at Arsenal. Since then, Guardiola has lacked a shop steward.
But now he seems to have found it. Because how goal.com writes, Xabi Alonso, who was acquitted of the tax fraud allegation, is said to be a hot candidate for the post to be filled at the end of the season, hoping that the club will have a little more planning certainty because of the Corona crisis *. The former strategist in the midfield of FC Bayern * had two successful years in Munich with Guardiola.
Xabi Alonso on Pep Guardiola: “Best coach I’ve ever worked with”
In 2016 Guardiola moved on to Manchester City, Alonso, who once raved that Guardiola was the best coach he had ever worked with, ended his active career a year later. So now there could be a reunion of the two.
After the end of his player career, Alonso, whom FCB boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge can imagine as a coach, as he said in an interview with tz.de *, drove his coaching career. First he hired at Real Madrid and became a youth coach. He has been chief coach of Real Sociedad’s second team since July 2019. Now does the next step follow?
* tz.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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