“If people ask, ‘Do I want to stay?’ I want to stay, I don’t have any reasons to move from here,” Guardiola said.
“I am incredibly satisfied to work with this club, with these players, and if people think I am going to resign or be sacked for these results and being nine points behind, then people don’t know me.
“I like to be in this challenge, I love to be in this position. And if the club wants me next season, I want to be here 100 per cent.
“I want to live in this city because I know lovely people here and I want to work and live with them. If they decide the results are getting worse, they are going to take a decision, that’s normal, it’s not because I am friends with Txiki [Begiristain, City’s director of football] that I am going to stay for the rest of my life.”