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BBC News
6 days ago
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- BBC News
Man City announce departure of first-team coaches
Three key coaches are leaving Manchester Pep Guardiola's first-team assistants Juanma Lillo and Inigo Dominguez will leave Etihad Stadium upon the expiry of their deals this initially joined in 2020 and spent two spells at City, coaching Qatar Stars League side Al-Sadd in between, while Dominguez spent two years supporting Guardiola and the Carlos Vicens, who led the under-18s side to an FA Youth Cup triumph in 2020, will also leave to come head coach at Portuguese side Braga.
The Independent
7 days ago
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- The Independent
Pep Guardiola to lose three key Man City coaches in major revamp
Pep Guardiola is losing three key members of his Manchester City backroom staff, including assistant manager Juanma Lillo, to leave the Spaniard in pursuit of a coaching team. Lillo, Inigo Dominguez and Carlos Vicens are all leaving City and will not go to the Club World Cup, with Guardiola yet to confirm who will join him in the dugout in the United States. Vicens, who has been at City for seven years, is going to take up his first managerial job at Portuguese club Braga, where he will replace the former Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal. Lillo, whose contract ends this summer, has spent two spells alongside Guardiola but said he wanted to return to his native Spain, rather than extending his stay in England. The 59-year-old was such a major influence on Guardiola that the Catalan joined Mexican club Dorados Sinaloa to play for him. And Guardiola brought Lillo to City in 2020. After two years, he left to manage Al Sadd in Qatar before returning to the Etihad Stadium a year later. Dominguez, another Spaniard, has worked with Lillo at Al Sadd and Qingdao Huanghai before joining City.
The Independent
7 days ago
- Business
- The Independent
Pep Guardiola to lose three key assistants in major Man City coaching shake-up
Pep Guardiola is losing three key members of his backroom staff, including assistant manager Juanma Lillo, leaving the Manchester City manager to find a new coaching team. Lillo, Inigo Dominguez and Carlos Vicens are all leaving City and will not go to the Club World Cup, with Guardiola yet to confirm who will join him in the dugout in the United States. Vicens, who has been at City for seven years, is going to take up his first managerial job at Portuguese club Braga, where he will replace the former Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal. Lillo, whose contract ends this summer, has spent two spells alongside Guardiola but said he wanted to return to his native Spain, rather than extending his stay in England. The 59-year-old was such a major influence on Guardiola that the Catalan joined Mexican club Dorados Sinaloa to play for him. Guardiola first brought Lillo to City in 2020. After two years, he left to manage Al Sadd in Qatar before returning to the Etihad Stadium a year later. Dominguez, another Spaniard, has worked with Lillo at Al Sadd and Qingdao Huanghai before joining City.
New York Times
27-05-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Pep Guardiola reshuffles Manchester City coaching staff with Juanma Lillo among exits
Pep Guardiola is set to reshuffle his coaching staff with three key assistants departing the club following the end of the Premier League season. Juanma Lillo, Carlos Vicens and Inigo Dominguez are leaving the Etihad, with Guardiola driving a push for new voices and ideas to ensure he remains challenged and can continue to innovate. Advertisement Lillo, who returned to the club in 2023 having spent two years in Manchester between 2020 and 2022, did not have his contract renewed, which expired at the end of the season. The same decision was made on technical coach Dominguez. Lillo has a long-established bond with Guardiola stretching back to the latter's six-month spell as a player at Dorados de Sinaloa in 2006. It was the final pitstop of Guardiola's playing career, which he hoped would serve as an apprenticeship in coaching working alongside fellow Spaniard Lillo, who had previously become the youngest coach in La Liga, aged 29. Guardiola will have learned the importance of retaining freshness in the dugout, not just in the playing squad, and that is on his agenda this summer as he enters his tenth season in charge of City. It comes after City dropped to third — the only time in Guardiola's managerial career he has finished outside of the top two apart from his first year in English football — having gone into the campaign after winning four Premier League titles in a row. Vicens, who also has responsibility as set-piece coach, has agreed to take on his first managerial role at Braga, who parted company with former Sheffield Wednesday manager Carlos Carvalhal last week. Guardiola is used to his assistants learning under him before spreading their wings elsewhere. Mikel Arteta spent almost four years at City before taking over at Arsenal in 2019, while Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca spent a season with Guardiola before moving to Leicester City. Domenec Torrent and Rodolfo Borrell, who had been his assistant at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, both left in 2018 and 2023, with Guardiola familiar with reconfiguring his staff. City benefit from the multi-club approach of City Football Group, who have a large database of managers and coaches to assess compatible styles, but bringing in an assistant requires consideration of how their coaching skills and personality will fit with Guardiola. He was always going to require a replacement, or two, for Vicens given his set-piece expertise but it looks likely that those occupying many of the seats either side of him next season will have a very different look. (Top image of Pep Guardiola and Juanma Lillo:)
Yahoo
23-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Carlos Vicens set for Manchester City exit as top job in Portugal awaits
Pep Guardiola is set to lose another of his assistant coaches in the coming days as SC Braga reach an agreement to take on a new manager, according to reports. It is the latest in a long line of ambitious tacticians plying their trade at Manchester City to then seek out a more senior role within the game to further their managerial careers beyond the tutelage of Guardiola. Advertisement Perhaps the most notable cases in recent seasons are Mikel Arteta and his journey at the Etihad Stadium, only to become a hugely influential and successful figure within Arsenal's rise to a top-level competitive club. Over at Stamford Bridge and Chelsea are also now under the guidance of a former Manchester City head coach, having hired Enzo Maresca from Leicester City after his spell in Italy that followed a career under Guardiola and within the Etihad's Academy system. And as another season comes to a close, it appears as though Manchester City will have to begin the 2025/26 campaign without a key figure from their current roster of backroom staff as negotiations seemingly conclude in Portugal. Advertisement That is according to the information of Record in Portugal, who report that Manchester City assistant coach Carlos Vicens is now set to become the new manager of Portuguese giants SC Braga, with full confirmation of the agreement to come next week. It is revealed that the contractual agreement between both parties should run for at least three seasons due to the ambitious nature of the project at the club regarding their ambition to fight for the top-flight crown. The 42-year-old coach is said to fit the profile desired by Braga officials, in being an ambitious coach prepared to take a step forward in his career, and now taking on his biggest challenge and opportunity to date. Vicens has become a heavily trusted ally of Pep Guardiola over the last few seasons, and even turned his back on an opportunity to take up a lead managerial role in the Netherlands to stand alongside his Etihad colleague. Advertisement Speaking during an interview last summer, Vicens also spoke openly about the future of Pep Guardiola, insisting upon the belief that it would only be right to give the Catalan coach the space to decide upon his own future – which ultimately ended in an extended stay at the club. 'We have to leave Pep alone now and let him recover from the season,' Carlos Vicens told an interview in Spain following a record-breaking fourth consecutive Premier League title win. It remains to be seen how Manchester City will look to replace Carlos Vicens in their team of backroom staff working directly with Pep Guardiola, and whether an internal promotion could take place or an external candidate is brought into the team.
