{"id":8743,"date":"2025-06-02T06:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/city-close-to-signing-ex-klopp-assistant-for-guardiolas-coaching-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T06:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:46:22","slug":"city-close-to-signing-ex-klopp-assistant-for-guardiolas-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/city-close-to-signing-ex-klopp-assistant-for-guardiolas-coaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"City close to signing ex-Klopp assistant for Guardiola’s coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City is close to finalizing a deal to bring Pep Lijnders into Pep Guardiola’s coaching staff, according to sources close to the club.<\/p>\n\nLijnders, who was J\u00fcrgen Klopp’s assistant at Liverpool, will take over the position of Juanma Lillo, whose contract at the Etihad Stadium expires this summer.\n\nIn addition to Lillo, assistant \u00cd\u00f1igo Dom\u00ednguez and set-piece coach Carlos Vicens, who has accepted to be the head coach of Braga, will also leave the team.\n\n

Conversations with Lijnders have been positive and the club expects to make an official announcement once other additions to Guardiola’s staff have been agreed upon.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pep Lijnders est\u00e1 cerca de unirse al Manchester City. Foto de Daniel Kopatsch – UEFA\/UEFA v\u00eda Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nLijnders arrived at Liverpool in 2014 under the management of Brendan Rodgers and began working with Klopp after his appointment at Anfield in October 2015.\n\nIn 2018, he took over as head coach of the Dutch NEC, but returned to Liverpool six months later.\n\nHe announced his departure along with Klopp last summer and was appointed head coach of Red Bull Salzburg before the 2024-25 season.\n\nThe 42-year-old coach has been out of work since December, after being dismissed by the Austrian team after only 29 matches.\n\n

Meanwhile, City is exploring a deal for Lyon forward Rayan Cherki.<\/p>\n\nThe 21-year-old player is considered an alternative to Florian Wirtz, who is close to signing for Liverpool. There is also interest in Morgan Gibbs-White, from Nottingham Forest.\n\nThe City hopes to finalize a deal for AC Milan midfielder Tijjani Reijnders before the FIFA Club World Cup.\n\nClubs can sign players between June 1st and 10th before the tournament in the United States.\n\nGuardiola and the players not involved in international matches are scheduled to return to training on June 9. They are scheduled to travel to their training base in Florida on June 12 before their opening match against Wydad AC in Philadelphia on June 18.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City is close to finalizing a deal to bring Pep Lijnders into Pep Guardiola’s coaching staff, according to sources close to the club. Lijnders, who was J\u00fcrgen Klopp’s assistant at Liverpool, will take over the position of Juanma Lillo, whose contract at the Etihad Stadium expires this summer. In addition to Lillo, assistant \u00cd\u00f1igo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1198,1200,3331,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-8743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-guardiola","9":"tag-manchester-city","10":"tag-pep-lijnders","11":"tag-transfers"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}