Pep Guardiola 'to be offered Holland job once he quits Man City'
Pep Guardiola ‘will be offered the Holland national team job once he decides to leave Manchester City’, with manager unsure whether he will walk away from the club when his contract runs down in 2023
- The Dutch FA have already sounded out Pep Guardiola about his future plans
- The 51-year-old has hinted that the next step will be managing a national team
- ‘I knew nothing about football’ before Johan Cruyff, insists City boss Guardiola
Pep Guardiola will reportedly be offered the chance to become Holland manager when he decides to leave Manchester City, to follow in the footsteps of his mentor Johan Cruyff.
The Dutch FA are said to have drawn up plans to convince the 51-year-old to join them as an international coach at the end of his reign with City.
Guardiola has a contract at City until 2023, and it is possible that he will end his trophy-laden spell with the reigning Premier League champions.
Pep Guardiola will reportedly be offered the Holland job once his Manchester City deal expires
Under the Barcelona icon, City have won three league titles, four consecutive EFL Cups, and an FA Cup.
The Dutch FA sounded out Guardiola about his future plans before he signed a new two-year extension with City last August, according to The Mirror.
They were told that the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss had unfinished business, the same report goes on to add.
Johan Cruyff brought Guardiola through the Barcelona set-up and inspired the City manager
The Spaniard has also made no secret he wants to coach on the international stage.
‘The next step will be a national team, if the opportunity presents itself,’ he said.
The prospect of taking charge of the country of his mentor Cruyff would be tantalising, given it was Holland’s brilliant team of the 1970s that introduced Total Football to the world.
Cruyff brought Guardiola through from Barcelona’s youth team to play as a deep-lying midfielder in the team that won the club’s first Champions League in 1992.
He then leant on the former Ajax forward when he took over the reigns of the Catalan giants in 2009.
The late Dutchman’s influence on the City boss is so profound that Guardiola once said: ‘I knew nothing about football before knowing Cruyff.’
Louis van Gaal is the current Holland manager after coming out of retirement to help the Oranje qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The former Manchester United boss took the reins for a third time in last August.
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