Manchester City are set to announce Juanma Lillo, the man Pep Guardiola has described as "the best coach I ever had" as his assistant, sources have confirmed to ESPN.
Lillo, 54, left his previous job as manager of China's Qingdao Huanghai this week and will fill the vacancy left when Mikel Arteta took over Arsenal in December.
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The pair have a longstanding relationship, with Guardiola having played for Lillo in a six-month spell at Mexico's Dorados Sinaloa in 2006, where he would take notes on Lillo's methods in training.