Manchester City will open talks with Pep Guardiola about a new contract at the end of the season, with the club’s Abu Dhabi owners eager for the manager to build a Sir Alex Ferguson style dynasty at the Etihad Stadium.

City recorded an extraordinary sixteenth successive Premier League victory on Saturday when a 4-1 hammering of Tottenham Hotspur maintained their stranglehold over England’s top-flight and intensified the debate over whether Guardiola’s rampaging side can finish the season unbeaten.

Guardiola is at the halfway point of his three-year contract, worth up to £20 million annually, and City’s hierarchy have agreed to sit down with the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach in the summer, confident of thrashing out the terms of a new deal.

A one-year contract extension has previously been suggested but City’s powerbrokers would like to tie the 46-year-old to a longer-term arrangement and hope to persuade the Catalan to buy into their vision of him creating a legacy at the club.

They recognise the impact Ferguson had over a 27-year tenure at Manchester United and believe that, in Guardiola, they have a similar rarefied talent capable of building his own dynasty over the next 10 years, during which time they hope to have won multiple domestic and European titles.