Manchester City: Pep Guardiola vows to quit if he needs to despite contract extension

If he feels that the club is broken, he will leave.

It would take nine years if he fulfilled the deal.

At a news conference on Friday, he said he would resign or not extend if he felt something was broken.

When he joined City, he was just a few years older than Sir Alex Ferguson was when he left Aberdeen for Manchester United in 1986, but he won't be following in his footsteps.

"I don't think I'm going to stay the same," said the Spaniard. The contract is not hard to understand. I thought we could still play well. The results are what matters in the end. I won't finish this contract if we're tired of each other.

Ferguson made an art form out of regenerating his squad, dumping experienced crowd favorites to make sure there was a steady stream of talent coming through the system to keep his longer serving players hungry.

Rico Lewis is an example of the attempt to achieve something similar after an impressive run of four premier league titles.

At the top of the table, there's a five-point lead, but that doesn't deter the manager from trying to become only the sixth team to win three titles in a row.

He said it's complex. It's easier when you win a lot. It is on the other side that we have to do it again.

They have done a better job than us. They haven't been there for a long time, but they want to stay.

After the other teams won, I saw the desire from the way we played.

We are close to the team. It is not a lot of points. It's not a big distance for me.