Mourinho and Guardiola in line for new deals?
Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola are both in line for new deals in Manchester, according to reports on Sunday.
Mourinho guided Manchester United to the Champions League courtesy of victory in the Europa League earlier this month, while also delivering the EFL Cup in his first season.
Guardiola helped Manchester City to a third-placed finish in his debut campaign, but failed to win any silverware for the first season in his managerial career.
Both bosses came under significant pressure at certain points in the season, but Sunday’s newspapers claim that they will be offered new deals by their respective clubs.
The Daily Express claim that Mourinho has earned a ‘new five-year deal’ at Old Trafford, with the Europa League win in particular ‘helping convince the board that he is the man to take them back to the top’.
Neil Fissler does add that the Portuguese ‘has 12 months left to run of a four-year deal’, which is patently untrue, and leads us to doubt the veracity of the story, mind you.
The Daily Mirror report similar with Guardiola, as Simon Mullock claims that ‘Manchester City are planning to open contract talks’ with the Spaniard.
Guardiola, like Mourinho, signed a three-year deal last summer, but ‘the belief at the club is that he now views the job as a much longer-term project’, and so he could agree to extended terms.
The claim centres around the fact that City will sanction a summer of heavy spending this summer, which started with the £43million purchase of Bernardo Silva.
As a result, City chiefs believe that Guardiola ‘will want to be around’ when his young team ‘hits its peak in four or five years’ time’.