Manchester City will be keeping an eye on the election process at Barcelona in the coming the months. According to reports in England, their reason for concern is that Joan Laporta would like to bring Txiki Begiristian and Ferran Soriano back to Catalonia -- if he is elected as president.

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Begiristian would return as sporting director, the role recently departed by Andoni Zubizarreta, and Soriano would take on the executive director job. On top of that, Laporta may also be planning to use Manuel Pellegrini as his manager.

The 'Daily Mirror' have reported that Laporta has been in contact with Begiristian already. The pair previously worked together at the Catalan club between the years of 2003 and 2010 during Laporta's first spell as president.

Soriano also worked at Barcelona between 2003 and 2008. He eventually left the club in turbulant circumstances, though, although it would seem that all has been forgotten now.

Pellegrini has not previously worked at Barça -- in fact, he was in charge of Real Madrid once -- but his relationship with Begiristian and Sorian at City makes him an obvious candidate to replace Luis Enrique should Laporta gain power.

On Friday, the Chilean coach said he is "very happy" at the English club and appeared alien to the idea of a possible link with Barça. "I'm very happy as the manager of City," he said. "I have a contract for the rest of this season and the following one."

We will see if, once the elections have been celebrated at Can Barça, the three central pieces to Manchester City's sporting structure end up at Fútbol Club Barcelona.