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Man City boss Guardiola 'tired,' next season could be last https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/40180034/man-city-boss-guardiola-tired-next-season-last Pep Guardiola has hinted that next season could be his last as Manchester City manager. Guardiola led his team to a record fourth consecutive English title with a 3-1 win over West Ham at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday. He has a contract until 2025 which he intends to honour, but the 53-year-old suggested he might not sign another new deal. "The reality is I am closer to leaving than staying," Guardiola said. "We have talked with the club and my feeling is that I want to stay now. I will stay next season and during the season we will talk. But after eight or nine years, we will see." Guardiola has now won 15 major trophies in eight years at City and could make it 16 with an FA Cup final against Manchester United next weekend. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss admitted he is "tired" and said he will need to find fresh "motivation" over the summer before beginning the new season in August. "I have a contract, I'm still here," he said. "Some of the moments I'm a bit tired, but some of the moments I love and we are here winning games, looking good with new players. "I start to think about, 'No one has done four in a row, why don't we try?' And now I feel it's done, so what next? "Right now I don't know what exactly the motivation is to do it because it's difficult to find it when everything is done." If Guardiola follows through on his commitment to stay at City next season, he expects Arsenal to challenge again for the title. Mikel Arteta's team has finished second in the past two campaigns after amassing 89 points this term. Guardiola said he's "got the message." "Before, it was Liverpool to push our limits, and now it was Arsenal," Guardiola said. "I want to congratulate them from the depths of my heart, for Mikel, his staff and players. They have had an incredible season. I feel it and they push us to our best like before. We got the message from Mikel and his players. We have to make the right decisions in the next years because they are here to stay. "

selling Trevoh for only £25m is bloody madness

Villa 'confident of landing Utd target Araujo' Aston Villa boss Unai Emery is said to be optimistic of landing reported Manchester United target Ronald Araujo from Barcelona. Barcelona outlet Sport say Villa have even held talks with the Spanish giants over signing the £70million-rated Uruguay centre-back, 25. wtf

A new way for Anthony Taylor to fuck us in the batty crease.

Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez could reportedly be on his way out of Anfield on loan this summer as Barcelona have been offered the player by his agent Jorge Mendes. https://www.caughtoffside.com/2024/05/19/nunez-transfer-liverpool-ace-eyed-for-barca-loan/

Inter Milan Lautaro Martinez on new deal talks: “I don’t know what’s gonna happen. This upcoming week we [club and player side] have to find an agreement.”

Jean-Philippe Mateta has scored 16 goals and provided 4 assists in PL this season. Since Oliver Glasner's arrival, he has scored more Premier League goals than any other player with 13 total goals.

Chelsea https://thedailybriefing.io/i/144795551/Chelsea What a screamer from Moises Caicedo as Chelsea ended their season with another win and an impressive climb to 6th place! FT Chelsea 2-1 Bournemouth [Pictures from X/Chelsea FC] Chelsea will be in the Europa League next season if Man City beat Man United in the FA Cup final next week. The Blues ended with five Premier League wins in a row, finishing the season 6th. 14 goals scored, four goals conceded in the last five games for Mauricio Pochettino’s team. Chelsea want Estevao Willian to be part of the first team as soon as he arrives in 2025, no plans for loan as he is considered a ‘generational talent’. €40m fixed fee, €25m in add-ons considered not difficult to reach as performance related. Could Crysencio Summerville to Chelsea be another transfer to watch? Fabrizio Romano takes a look in his exclusive column. Thiago Silva: “I am at peace. I did everything I could do. Everything. I know what it means to wear the Chelsea shirt. If I have a message to the boys here today, I hope they understand that everything they did to get to Chelsea has to be worth it because the season we’re having is not worthy of Chelsea, it’s not. I think they have to do more next year.” Thiago Silva was given a guard of honour before telling the crowd: “My dream is to see my kids play for you. I’ll miss you guys a lot. I love you.” Mauricio Pochettino when asked if he will have a say on summer transfers at Chelsea: “That is the club’s decision. We will be there if they need help.” Will Pochettino stay at Chelsea? Fabrizio Romano has the latest info in his exclusive column. Pochettino: “I’m really happy. But the questions on future are for owners and directors, not me. On Friday night, Todd Boehly invited me for a dinner and it was a nice dinner together. I don’t know about the rumours!”

oh, wow Lens collapsed in their game, so that win qualifies Lyon for europe that sucks, I like Lens

Lyon probably has the strangest domestic league history of any major team 129 seasons of football all time consective title record in France 7 in a row from 2001/02 to 2007/08 but those are their only league titles, they never won it before or since

2 1 Strasbourg choked the game away

pen given, ffs it looked a dive

lol, another possible pen on Strabourg VAR reviewing

wow, VAR waived it off

clownshow in France

and now a pen on Strasbourg smdh

Strasbourg blows the pen ffs

CLEAR pen committed by Lyon on a corner

Andrey Santos has looked pretty sharp btw

and in true Chels family tradition he now injures himself and has to come off, ffs

1 1 Habib Diarra scored for Strasbourg

1 nil Lyon