The Spaniard’s contract is set to expire at the end of this current season and given the fact that he has been at City for 5 years, more than at any other club, there were serious questions if he would extend his contract beyond the stipulated time.
“I would love to stay longer here. It is a place I love to be but I have to deserve [to stay],” he told a news conference ahead of City’s Premier League opener against Wolves on Monday night.
“This club achieved [high] standards in the last decade but we have to maintain that and I have to deserve it. I am going to see if I deserve it this season in terms of how the club goes forward and improves.”
“We have every three days a game so we don’t have much time to think about it,” he added. “I try to see every day [director of football] Txiki [Begiristain] and [CEO] Ferran [Soriano] and I speak every week with [chairman] Khaldoon [Al Mubarak]. When it is going to happen, it is going to happen.
“Now we have other issues. The organisation is so strong in all departments. It will not be a problem for the club to do what we have to do in the future.”
“I would not be here if I didn’t feel the fire or the desire to play good,” he said.
“I still want to help the players avoid making mistakes and still I have the passion to do it – maybe more than ever. I want to try to be together and do a good season.”
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