Manchester City FC loses a cornerstone of its project. The Premier League team will have to find a new sports director to take over from Txiki Begiristain. The manager has announced to the club his intention not to renew his contract in 2025, ending his career with the team. citizenas it progresses The Athletic.
Begiristain arrived at Manchester City FC in October 2022led by Ferran Soriano, who currently works as general manager of the club. Both came from FC Barcelona, under the first term of Joan Laporta.
Several sources close to the club suggest that Begiristain may not be the only manager to leave Manchester City FC next season: Pep Guardiola, coach of the citizen could be considering a change of scenery and leaving the Premier League team after nine seasons at the head of the bench.
According to several specialized media, Hugo Viana, former Portuguese footballer and current sports director of Sporting de Portugal, could be Begiristain’s replacementalthough Manchester City FC has maintained a stony silence on the matter.
Txiki Begiristain arrived at Manchester City FC in October 2022
At the end of September, Manchester City FC approved the start of the project to expand the north stand of its current stadium. This would lead to feud citizen to exceed 60,000 locations.
The new stand will not only increase the current capacity of the Etihad Stadium, with 53,400 seats, but It will also include several areas dedicated to familiestickets reserved for young fans and renovated locker rooms.
At the end of April, Manchester City FC already presented the project to remodel its current stadium, with an approximate investment of 300 million pounds (330 million euros). The club projects that the works will last three years and will result in the creation of 2,600 jobs.
Since 2008, Manchester City has invested more than 700 million pounds at the Etihad Campus and in East Manchester. This investment has resulted in the creation of new jobs in the city and in new facilities such as the City Football Academythe club’s training football school, Connell Co-op Collegea secondary school, and the Manchester Institute of Health&Performancea health center for sports medicine and training, among other facilities.
The Etihad is currently the fifth largest stadium in the Premier League, but after the expansion it would tie with Arsenal in fourth position. This will be the second expansion of the stadium, which was built for the Commonwealth Games in 2002 and has hosted City matches since 2003. In 2015, the complex citizen already added 6,000 seats.
