Pep Guardiola is sure that he will take a break from coaching or retire when he finally leaves Manchester City.
Guardiola has supervised the most successful period in the history of the city since he arrived at the Etihad Stadium in 2016 and has won an extraordinary 18 trophies.
That Trek includes the very first Champions League triumph of the club in 2023 and six Premier League titles. Only Manchester United icon Alex Ferguson, with 13, has won more top crowns as a manager.
Guardiola's contract with City would expire at the end of this season and he was strongly connected to the track in England before Thomas Tuchel took the reins, but he wrote a new deal to walk until 2027 in November.
That is despite the uncertainty surrounding the city after being accused of 115 infringements of the financial rules of the Premier League, with a ruling in that case soon expected.
But when the time comes for Guardiola to leave the city, he will not immediately walk into another job, following the 12 -month sabbatical that he took in 2012 between leaving Barcelona and at Bayern Munich in 2013.
“I want people to remember the way they want,” Guardiola said in an interview with ESPN Brasil. “I will stop after my contract with City. I'm sure.
“I don't know if I'm going to retire, but I'm going to take a break. I don't know how I want to be remembered.
“All coaches want to win so that we can have a memorable job, but I believe that the fans of Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich and City had fun watching my teams.
“I don't think we should ever live about whether we are remembered. When we die, our families cry for two or three days and then it is, you are forgotten.
“I will tell you that the most important thing is not what people think of you, our lives as football players have been very good after all. There are new challenges as a coach, I don't know what will happen in the future.”
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City has passed a miserable season of 2024-25 and is locked up in a fight to secure the Champions League qualification and is fighting it with Newcastle United, Chelsea, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa for a top five finish.
But City still has a chance of silverware while they are confronted with Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final on 17 May, and Guardiola knows for sure that everyone in the club will learn from a bad campaign.
“It was a year of great learning. There is not just one reason why this year was difficult, there are many details, such as wrong decisions for me. So it's a year of great learning for me, personally,” Guardiola said.
“I knew that there would be a moment that we would fall, but we fell a lot. We didn't expect to be that far away, but we can't win them all.
“What we did for 10 or nine years was exceptional, but now we have to sit down and try to learn to understand what we should produce in the future.”