Liverpool legend Steve McManaman believes that Pep Guardiola's future at Man City may depend on the club's success in the Champions League.
Guardiola is now into his fourth season at City and has enjoyed untold success so far, winning the Premier League and Carabao Cup twice and the FA Cup last season to complete a historic treble.
Yet the Blues have been unsuccessful in their efforts to win the Champions League and haven't got past the quarter-final stages of Europe's top competition since the Catalonian took over.
Guardiola himself hasn't won the Champions League since 2011 while at Barcelona after failing to lift the trophy during his three years at Bayern Munich.
Guardiola has also not stayed at a club as a manager longer than four years, fuelling speculation that a departure may be in store this summer, with plenty of Europe's elite clubs interested.
The Blues boss dismissed claims that there was a clause in his contract that meant he could leave in the summer if 'certain conditions' were met last week and expressed his desire to remain at the club.
McManaman thinks that the Catalonian will likely stay at the Etihad but the Champions League may be a big factor.
"I don’t know is the answer. I think he’ll probably stay," he told horseracing.net.
"I don’t know, it’s his fourth season isn’t it? It may all depend on how successful he is in the Champions League.
"If he wins the Champions League, which he was brought to City to do, then maybe his opinion would change, but personally I think he will stay.
"I just think he’s got Manchester City in the place they’d want to be. I think if he was unsuccessful, then I don’t think he’d jump ship then, I think he’d bring in a few new players and start again and show people that he’s the serial title winner that the fans expect him to be."
