Inside Pep Guardiola’s £2.7million luxury bachelor pad in Manchester as Man City boss ‘splits from wife after 30 years’
MANCHESTER CITY boss Pep Guardiola resides in a £2.7million luxury Salford apartment.
Reports emerged in Spain yesterday that Guardiola, 53, split with wife of 30 years Cristina last month.
The couple had been living apart for nearly five years, after Cristina moved back to Barcelona to run her fashion company.
In 2021, Guardiola bought an 8,000-square-foot mansion in Pedarlbes, the most expensive area in Barcelona, for £8.55million.
When in Manchester, however, the experienced boss preferred to live in an apartment closer to the city centre.
Upon moving to the Etihad in 2017, Guardiola forked out £2.7m on a luxury apartment in City Suites.
Rather than heading to a sprawling mansion in the leafy Cheshire suburbs, Guardiola instead opted for the “most desirable address” in Salford.
His apartment is situated in a private section of a 16-floor hotel, and is located near several designer shops and high-end restaurants and wine bars.
Guardiola also has access to an 18-metre indoor spa pool, exquisite spa and sauna facilities as well as a 24-hour gym.
In addition to these amenities, the City boss also has two private parking spots, a 24-hour concierge team, dry-cleaning services and access to a private executive lounge.
Operations director Gavin Bailey told the Manchester Evening News in 2017: “It’s not like a hotel.
“We’re trying to make it more special, this is effectively your home during your stay, and we run it that way.
“We have people here for four nights but then we also have people here who are staying for 12 months.
“It might be someone on a work assignment here, or a theatre production company here who were here for three months, we have TV people, sports people, you might recognise people walking around the building but we try to run it as though this is your space.”
According to Spanish outlet Sport, Guardiola’s relationship with Cristina remains “cordial, stable and friendly” despite their split.
The pair met at Cristina’s family clothes store when he was just 18, as he modelled for designer Antonio Miro.
Serra Claret stock many brands he has worn on the touchline, such as Dsquared2, CP Company and Armani.
And in January 2024, Guardiola revealed Cristina helps pick out his matchday outfits.
He told Men In Blazers: “My wife is the best in the world at many things, but especially in fashion.
“So she says normally to me, don’t wear this or wear that, so I follow her.
“I am smart enough to know that when people are much much better than me, follow their advice, and hers is really good.”
The pair wed in an intimate ceremony in 2014.
They have three children together; Maria, 24, Marius, 22, and Valentina, 17.