Chippy_boy said:
How will we see? If we sign him in a years time, it just means we sign him in years time. It doesn't prove there is some grand plan.
Correct. Football clubs don't succession plan with finite timescales. It takes all the pieces of the jigsaw to fit together at the right time for an appointment to happen. Guardiola is the most respected manager in football, so if a time comes when he wants to move on, he will have his pick of jobs. Whether ours is one depends on whether there is a vacancy. Whether there's a vacancy depends on the success of the incumbent at that time.
The chances of all that coming together in exactly a year are minuscule.
It's not long since Jose Mourinho was telling people in private that he saw the City job as his destiny. Now that seems extremely unlikely. Football is unpredictable and things change very quickly.