Pep Guardiola is expected to sign at least a one-year contract extension at the end of the season as Kevin De Bruyne urged the Manchester City manager to make more signings this summer to help take the new Premier League champions to “another level”. Guardiola is out of contract at the end of next season but there is optimism he will agree an extension that ties him to the Etihad Stadium until at least June 2020.

City’s hierarchy were talking privately about wanting to keep Guardiola for a decade long before Sunday’s coronation and would like him to sign a much longer-term deal. They have talked previously about the freedom Guardiola has been given in Manchester and how the job is far removed from the acute political pressure that came with managing Barcelona, where the 47-year-old spent four years as coach before taking a 12-month sabbatical, and in many ways Bayern Munich, where he was in charge for three years.

Guardiola is determined to finish the final five games of the season with a flourish as he bids to smash the record Premier League points haul – set by Chelsea in 2004-05 – by becoming the first to reach the 100-point barrier.