Manchester City are set to appoint Pep Guardiola’s old mentor Juanma Lillo as their new assistant manager.
Lillo - a Spaniard who has held roles at Real Sociedad, Chile and Sevilla - briefly managed Guardiola at Mexican side Dorados Sinaloa in 2006.
The pair first met in the 1990s, with Lillo a tactician in a similar mould to the City boss and their mutual hero, Johan Cruyff.
Guardiola has described Lillo as a ‘maestro’ and his spell in Mexico is credited with setting him up for the subsequent trophy-laden years at Barcelona.