I don’t think Pep Guardiola or Manchester City supporters were prepared for this drastic drop in performance. I believe Manchester City will bounce back from this. I laugh at anyone who says Pep should be sacked because City is doing as well as they normally would. People forget the times before Pep arrived at Manchester City. How many trophies have Manchester City won before Pep came into the picture? City should be grateful that they are champions because of Pep and they shouldn’t delude themselves into thinking that they could have achieved the same results with another manager.
Nobody expected a drastic quick drop from Manchester City like they did in latest matches. Before this season, people could predict a difficult season for Manchester City because they did not have a good replacement for De Bruyne, but nobody expected a severe injury of Rodri who is very important in their squad operation.
There are more issues in their squad by ageing effects and they made mistake by selling Julian Alvarez too. Two seasons ago, they sold Cole Palmer who become one of brighest young star in Premier League now. Many problems come from ageing, lack of enough preparation in player resource, and bad transfer strategy recent seasons, put Manchester City in a big crisis now.
Pep will choose his right time to leave Manchester City, maybe at the season ending. I don't believe that he will stay with them, because he's smart enough to know rebuilding a successful squad like past 7 seasons is not easy.