Manchester City news: Pep Guardiola will go back to Barcelona as president within next few years, Fabio Capello believes
The prediction from the ex-England boss comes a few days after Guardiola said he is already in the 'process of saying goodbye'
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PEP GUARDIOLA will become the Barcelona president when he leaves Manchester City.
That's the belief held by former England and Russia boss Fabio Capello.
The Manchester City boss shocked the football world this week by suggesting that he is already preparing for the end of his coaching career.
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Guardiola, only six months into his Etihad spell, confirmed he does not expect to take many more club jobs and his ‘goodbye has already started’.
And Capello, who managed the former Spain midfielder when the pair were at Roma in the 2002/03 season, believes his destiny is back to his boyhood club.
Speaking to Sky Sports Italy, Capello said: “Guardiola’s football is fundamentally always the same and if the opponents figure out counter-measures, he has to find an alternative.
“In any case, I think if he made these statements, it is also because in my view he has the idea of becoming President of Barcelona.”
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Manchester City secured a 2-1 victory against Burnley on Bank Holiday Monday thanks to goals from Gael Clichy and Sergio Aguero.
However the game was marred as Fernandinho was sent off for the third time in six weeks for a two-footed lunge at Burnley's Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
It led to a prickly interview between Guardiola and the BBC after the clash, with the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss insisting he was "happy" despite his expression looking anything but.
In footage aired by NBC last week, Guardiola said “I will be at Manchester for the next three seasons, maybe more, but I am arriving at the end of my coaching career, of this I am sure.
“I will not be on the bench until I am 60 or 65 years old. I feel the process of my goodbye has already started."
