Only six months into his Manchester City reign, Pep Guardiola has sounded tetchy and strained by the demands of English soccer. ''Manchester City is three years or maybe longer but I am still approaching at the end of my career like a manager,'' Guardiola said in broken English in an interview with American network NBC taped in early December but only broadcast last week. Before City scrambles to start the search for a successor, Guardiola is clearly not planning an immediate escape from Manchester however chilly he is finding his first English winter.
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