LONDON
\nPep Guardiola has insisted his time as manager of Manchester City will \u201cnot be complete\u201d if he fails to win the Champions League.
\nGuardiola has won nine major trophies, including four English Premier League titles, as City manager but he is yet to bring European club football\u2019s most prestigious trophy to the Etihad Stadium.
\nThe 51-year-old guided Barcelona to two Champions League titles when manager of the Spanish giants, having won the European Cup as a player with the club in 1992.
\nBut the Spaniard\u2019s best finish in the competition during six full seasons at City came when they were runners-up in 2021 after losing 1-0 in the final to Premier League rivals Chelsea.
\nGuardiola, who last month extended his City contract until the end of the 2024\/25 season, is determined to bring the club just their second major continental trophy after they won the now defunct European Cup Winners\u2019 Cup back in 1970.
\nIt\u2019s not the only one but I admit it\u2019s the trophy we want, and of course my period here will not be complete if we don\u00b4t win it,\u201d said Guardiola of the Champions League.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s not the only reason I extended the contract, absolutely not, but I will do everything in the time we have together, and we are going to try — but I\u00b4d say the same as we tried before.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s the trophy we don\u00b4t have and we\u2019ll try to do it.\u201d
\nCity, semi-finalists last season, will resume their quest to win the Champions League against RB Leipzig in the last 16 in February.
\nGuardiola, who joined City after a spell at German giants Bayern Munich, had no doubts about committing his future to the club.
\n\u201cFirst of all, I want to say thank you for the confidence they have in me,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will be difficult to repay the confidence they have shown me in these many years. It was difficult for me to reject them.
\n\u201cWe will continue to try to do our best. I don\u2019t have enough words to express my gratitude to this club for having me here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONDON Pep Guardiola has insisted his time as manager of Manchester City will \u201cnot be complete\u201d if he fails to win the Champions League. Guardiola has won nine major trophies, including four English Premier League titles, as City manager but he is yet to bring European club football\u2019s most prestigious trophy to the Etihad Stadium. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n