Coveted Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola says spending too long at one c...

When Pep Guardiola walks into a press conference at a Premier League club and claims it is ‘boring’ for a manager to stay in one place for too long, it is time for antennae to get twitching.

The Bayern Munich boss, the most wanted man at Manchester City and probably every other major English club, dodged questions about extending his stay at the German champions beyond the end of his contract next summer.

And as he talked up the ­incredible longevity of his Champions League rival Arsene Wenger, the sainted Catalan coach hinted he will always suffer from itchy feet.

Guardiola said: “20 years at one club is now impossible. Nobody has that energy any more! It can get boring for the people.“Arsenal is an exception, like Sir Alex Ferguson was. Wenger is not only a manager, he is a sporting director.

“He changed the whole club. They played defensively before he came.

“Wenger is more than just a manager for this club. He is almost ­everything. He can be at a club for that long. Me? No!”Bayern roll into the Emirates on the back of 12 straight wins, including a Bundesliga record of nine in a row from the start of a season and a 5-1 thrashing of second-placed Borussia ­Dortmund earlier this month.

Polish goal glutton Robert Lewandowski has netted 22 times this season, including 15 in seven games for club and country, so perhaps Guardiola is finding it all to easy.

After storming out of a press conference when asked about moving to the Premier League recently, he refused to respond to Monday’s statement from Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge that the club expect him to hold contract talks before the end of 2015.“The club know everything,” he snapped. “The only important thing is the match against Arsenal.”

As he prepared to apply the coup de grace to Arsenal’s Champions League for the third time in his managerial career, Guardiola was keen to talk up the Gunners, bottom of Group F after disastrous defeats by Dinamo Zagreb and ­Olympiakos.

Guardiola, who has previously knocked out Arsenal with ­Barcelona and Bayern, said: “It is only two games and that can happen.

"English teams are some of the best in the Champions and Europa League and I have good considerations about them.

“The truth is Arsenal are in great form in the Premier League.“My old player, Alexis Sanchez, is in excellent form. Mesut Ozil, how he moves between the lines to create space, is amazing.

“Theo Walcott doesn’t just play as a right winger now, he plays as a striker and he is so fast that he is difficult to control.

“And when a team decide to put Santi Cazorla like a playmaker, it is the best signal of how they want to play.

“There’s normally a big guy there who runs. So this means they play nice ­football.”Guardiola then attempted some mind-games by claiming ­Arsenal’s desperate must-win scenario would give them the edge on Tuesday night.

He added: “In this situation, they have the advantage. They have to win. That means they’ll try put in a perfect ­performance.

“They will be aggressive and be like animals. You have to look for another way to compete against this enthusiasm.

“I prefer to be in our situation but I know myself when you are in their situation you give ­everything.

“Against Arsenal, we cannot expect 90 minutes of the ball.

The rules of FIFA say we play with just one ball, not with two – and they have players who can really play.

"So we have to adapt. My defenders know that.”