Pep Guardiola insisted he will make any decision over his next job with Manchester City and will not betray the club.

The Blues boss is well into his sixth year at the Etihad - two more than he spent at Barcelona and three more than Bayern Munich - and is under contract for a further season that takes him to the summer of 2023.

With the 51-year-old showing plenty of evidence that he is still at the very top of his game, Guardiola is spending his current time focusing on the current campaign as City move towards a fourth Premier League title in five years and also aim for success in the FA Cup and Champions League.

"I won’t think about the future when I have still the contract I have," he said. "I’m just thinking about Southampton. I'm not good enough to think far, far away.

"I feel good and comfortable. When I’m not energetic, I will quit. But right now, I feel good. Still we can play better, we can improve, the desire that all the managers have when we lose, still winning games.

"My future always depends on results. I’m good here, comfortable, they gave me everything. I like to work with these players still and hopefully they still like to be with us. Southampton, rest a little bit then at the end of the season we’ll see what happens."

City bosses put a monumental effort into landing the Catalan coach from Bayern in 2016 but are not naïve enough to think he will stay forever and there has been plenty of work put into succession plans.

Guardiola has said previously that he could not manage another Premier League team after his time at the Etihad but has also mentioned a desire for other challenges in the future - and his time in the dugout has an expiry date.

However, the City boss said that any decision on his next job will be taken with the support of his employers to respect the treatment he has enjoyed at the Etihad.

"My decision will be taken with the club, I have a lot of confidence. They gave me everything so I cannot betray them or let them feel that I have done anything wrong to them. That would be not nice on my side," he said.

"Together we took decisions to come here and to extend the contract two times and it will be the same now. It depends how they feel about me, how I feel myself in the club but now I never think for 24 hours a day what Is going to happen far away. In football the end of the season is far, far away. Now it’s just the same."