Pep Guardiola has thanked Rodolfo Borrell and Enzo Maresca for their successful time assisting him at City as he revealed ongoing plans to appoint replacements.

Borrell joined the first team backroom staff when Guardiola arrived in 2016 but he departed this summer to become Sporting Director in the MSL with Austin FC.

He was by the manager’s side for five Premier League titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups, two Community Shields and a Champions League.

Maresca joined Guardiola’s coaching team at the start of the 2022/23 campaign and helped oversee a remarkable Treble before taking up a new challenge for this coming season as manager at Leicester City.

Guardiola hailed the duo as an ‘incredible part of the success we had’ as he now looks for new No.2s.

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“I want to say thank you a lot to Rodo for the incredible seven years together and Enzo for the last year,” the manager told journalists at a press conference in Tokyo.

“They were an incredible part of the success we had and I wish them the best. They deserve the best.

“We are looking to have some people to help us. But I have enough quality in the [backroom] team [this pre-season] and so far it is okay.

“I have in mind a few people but I cannot say more.”

Watch the manager’s press conference in the video player above.

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