Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola reveals the reasons why he has signed a new contract at the club ahead of their Premier League clash with Tottenham
Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK
Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK
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00:00Congratulations on your new contract. You said last night that you've decided to stay because of these four defeats and you wanted to make sure the club was okay.
00:13Is it really just about the last couple of weeks or is there more to it than that?
00:18Not just of that. I said yesterday I felt I should stay here because they want me for the obvious reasons, for the results.
00:33Of course we've known each other for a long time but all my decisions in my life have been like that.
00:41What I feel at the moment when I don't feel convinced, I wait.
00:48Sometimes it can ignite something in yourself that says that is the moment still to stay here.
00:53That was the reason why. In just two hours we did it.
00:59Why two years and not one?
01:03For the weather?
01:07It's a good question. Mainly I don't want a next season in September, October, November.
01:15It's the last year of Pep, how to extend again, again, again. That was the main reason.
01:19I don't want to be in that position because at the end the contract is there.
01:24I would like to stay two more years but I know the results are not good.
01:28I will not be two years. It's like the same with the players.
01:31We have an incredible legendary players here in the team but we have to perform.
01:37If we don't perform, our owner, chairman, our fans will tell us what's going on and we have to change.
01:45Everyone is under pressure, me first.
01:48I have the contract but maybe in a month I'm not here when the situation is not going well.
01:54I think we deserve to continue what we have done in the last years.
02:01I think we deserve to extend the contract.
02:03I'm not naive enough to stay for a stay.
02:06For a marvelous position in life we are here that I'm going to stay because I have a contract
02:13or because of what they have done in the past.
02:15I deserve to extend the contract but at the same time we have to do it again.
02:20We have to be up there and if not, of course the club has to find a solution.