The Spanish coach recently signed a two-year contract extension with the Premier League champions but admits that he is likely to take time out of the game once he leaves the Etihad Stadium to focus on activities such as playing golf and learning French.

Speaking to chef Dani Garcia on his Desmontadito YouTube channel, Guardiola said: "A time will come when I feel it’s enough and I’ll definitely stop then.

"I’m not going to manage another team. I’m not talking about the long-term future but what I’m not going to do is leave Manchester City and go to another country to do the same thing as I am now.

"I wouldn’t have the energy to do so. I’m still here doing what I am today. But the thought of starting off somewhere else, with all the process of the training and so on... no, no, no! Maybe a national team but that’s different.

"I should stop, like these chefs that go to other countries, stop and see what we’ve done well and what we could do better and when you’re busy all day day after day you don’t have time to do that. I think stopping would do me good."

Guardiola admits that it is a lonely life as a football manager as the pain of a bad result takes its toll for several days after a match.

He said: "The starting point with coping with the problems of defeat would be being with people, your family basically. But no-one can really console the loneliness of the football manager.

"You have people beside you but the bad decisions, why have I done that, it’s gone wrong because I did this, I didn’t push them enough….the pain of the defeat, you feel it alone. You might have friends around you, but when you close that bedroom door and turn off the light there’s no consolation. You have to let one or two days pass and then start again."