Revealed: Pep Guardiola's 'critical decision which proved the final straw in 30-year relationship with wife Cristina Serra' - and how the Man City boss 'could still rescue the marriage'
Revealed: Pep Guardiola's 'critical decision which proved the final straw in 30-year relationship with wife Cristina Serra' - and how the Man City boss 'could still rescue the marriage'
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Pep Guardiola's wife called time on their 30-year relationship after the Manchester City manager 'put football before their relationship' by signing a two-year contract extension that would have kept him in the UK until 2027, it was claimed today. Fashion entrepreneur Cristina Serra, who returned to Barcelona from Manchester in 2019 to focus on her business interests but still regularly visited the 53-year-old dad-of-three in his adopted city, decided 'enough was enough' after learning he had U-turned on a decision to quit Britain and was going to stay in his current job until 2027.
![[Guardiola, pictured with his wife and daughters, signed a two-year extension in November]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/00/94147615-14290071-image-a-126_1736988275514.jpg)
The explosive allegations were made on Wednesday afternoon by Lorena Vazquez and fellow Spanish journalist Laura Fa, who make up a duo of well-respected showbiz reporters called the Mamarazzis, and broke the story of the couple's shock marriage break-up earlier this week.
![[Guardiola met Serra when they were 18 in 1994 and the couple married in 2014]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/00/94076105-14290071-Guardiola_met_Serra_when_they_were_18_in_1994_and_the_couple_mar-a-127_1736988394560.jpg)
Pep's previous City deal was due to expire at the end of the season, but he agreed terms on a two-year extension in November. He said at the time he could not leave the club after suffering four consecutive defeats for the first time in his coaching career.
![[The pair, pictured at Wimbledon, met in 1994 before marrying in an intimate ceremony in 2014]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/00/94050227-14290071-Guardiola_53_and_Serra_first_met_in_1994_before_marrying_in_an_i-a-128_1736988414946.jpg)
Lorena, speaking on the Mamarazzi's weekly Podcast broadcast this afternoon, said: 'After Cristina returned to Barcelona from Manchester in 2019 to focus on her business interests, it's true that the first rumours about her marriage to Pep surfaced, but no-one dared talking about there being a relationship crisis and much less so a split.
![[Guardiola and Serra had remained a couple despite not living in the same city (pictured in 2013)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/00/94050527-14290071-Guardiola_and_Serra_had_remained_a_couple_despite_not_living_in_-a-129_1736988502881.jpg)
