Catalan press seized on the house purchase, which was made public in June 2021, as a sign Guardiola could be planning a return to Barcelona following Joan Laporta's election as its president.

Guardiola purchased the house, situated in the high part of Barcelona, from a Russian businessman in February 2021. He is understood to have purchased it through a company he was running with his ...

Guardiola, 53, bought the pad for £8.5m through a company he ran with his wife from a Russian businessman in February 2021. The four-storey house, near to a six-mile stretch of dirt tracks on the ...