Chelsea have said so. Liverpool FC are apparently deep into negotiations. Manchester United have thought of the possibility after Sir Alex Ferguson retires. Have Arsenal fans starting pressure on the club to push Arsene Wenger aside and hire his ideological heir for the club? Sorry, I wasn't going to continue to write on this story, all that has been said is a fact now, so there is little to speculate on or editorialize on, but the English continue to insist that Pep Guardiola will change his plans either now or within the next 12 months and seek out greener pastures in England, testing himself and his philosophy against the likes of Southampton, Stoke City, and a dozen other lesser lights in the English game that are still seen as a greater challenge than any of the slew of Spanish league minnows that his FC Barcelona side have beaten up on. He ended his run at Barça as he had begun it, with against Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey, he waved goodbye and almost immediately the British papers began to write their fiction during this less-than newsworthy period before Euro 2012. Let me a little shed light on it. I would be very surprised that Pep Guardiola would back down on his word and revive his managerial career after he has so

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