Joleon Lescott believes that Pep Guardiola has 'unfinished business' at Man City and he won't be going anywhere just yet.
There was heavy speculation last month claiming that the Blues boss had agreed to take over at Juventus to replace Massimiliano Allegri.
Guardiola was quick to refute the rumours and Lescott doesn't expect the Catalonian to leave any time soon.
"I don’t believe Pep Guardiola will move on until he has dominated Europe with Manchester City," Lescott, who played 160 times for City, told Sporting Bet.
"You could say it’s unfinished business as he bids to take their football to a global level. Pep has created so much success at Manchester City in such a short space of time and I believe there’s more success to come.
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"Everyone associated with the club wants Guardiola at Manchester City and there would be a lot of disappointed fans, staff and players if he left. I don’t expect Guardiola to look to move anywhere until his contract is up in two years, at least."
Man City are the favourites to win the Champions League this season despite Guardiola's repeated claims that his team isn't ready and they aren't on the same level as Barcelona, though the retired Lescott thinks they can get there.
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"Pep said that Manchester City are not currently quite in the same level as Barcelona.
"That said, I believe Guardiola is the man to take Man City to that level, but he needs to continue the current successes for a few years for them to be recognised as hitting the standard that has been set by Barcelona.
"Man City have got a lot of great players, but they need to be have the perfect team mentality for them to be considered as successful as Barcelona.
"Manchester City will need to be a consistent and powerful threat in both the Premier League and Champions League and they have definitely been heading towards that in the past couple of years."
