Manchester City playmaker Phil Foden is integral to Pep Guardiola’s plans however his contract is approaching its remaining 18 months.
Pep Guardiola would love Phil Foden to spend all of his profession at Manchester City – however couldn’t shed any mild over whether or not the participant can be supplied a brand new deal. The 25-year-old has simply 18 months remaining on his present contract and an settlement just isn’t considered shut.
Foden confirmed precisely what he can deliver to the group with a brace on Saturday in opposition to Leeds that included the primary and final aim of the sport, and he has been integral to Guardiola’s plans since September. Having emerged as a 16-year-old on the finish of the supervisor’s first yr in Manchester, the playmaker is now one of many longest-serving on the Etihad.
That would proceed if a brand new deal could be agreed, though the longer his present contract is allowed to run the extra uncertainty that builds. If nothing is agreed by the top of subsequent summer time, City might threat shedding Foden on a free switch.
“I don’t know, however hopefully he can keep all his profession right here. He is a particular participant,” mentioned Guardiola. “He’s a Man City fan for the academy. So, no doubts about that. But I do not know [about] him, his agent and the membership. I do not know.”
Foden spoke after the Leeds recreation about his progress and maturity this season, a drive that he has to take duty on the pitch and be a pacesetter. If he’s to commit his long-term future to the membership, a spot within the captaincy group appears like an apparent step in his profession.
Guardiola is open to that, however mentioned that it wants to return from the participant with all of his behaviour. “If he desires, yeah. If he desires to change into, yeah,” mentioned the City boss. “But captains on the finish change into, from themselves, your behaviour on and off the pitch. So, it is determined by him.
“On the pitch, he is all the time been like that. He just isn’t a man who talks a lot within the dressing room. But on the pitch, he by no means hides behind the scenes, behind what is going on on. He all the time took duty from the day one. He all the time had an unimaginable presence on the pitch.”
