article_snippet.sent: Sensibly, Pep Guardiola approached with caution.
article_snippet.sent: Manuel Pellegrini's position at Manchester City is under threat as they fight for fourth place .
article_snippet.sent: To fire Pellegrini with six games left of the Barclays Premier League season would be an admission by City’s owners that anything other than the Barclays Premier League trophy or the Champions League warrants a dismissal.
article_snippet.sent: Pellegrini guided City to the Premier League trophy or the Champions League last season but Liverpool and Southampton've fallen well short this time .
article_snippet.sent: After meekly surrendering their the Champions League title and being given another chasing by Barcelona over two legs in the Champions League, it is clear that City have failed to make significant progress under Pellegrini.
article_snippet.sent: Pellegrini holds the European Cup after Barcelona's 3-1 win over Manchester United in the 2011 final .
article_snippet.sent: Pellegrini is thrown in the air by Pellegrini Barcelona players after his Barcelona players 2009 the Champions League win .
article_snippet.sent: The difficulty beyond that scenario is what to do beyond the end of the season because a club with City’s ambitions cannot limp on for another 12 months in the hope that Pellegrini becomes available.
article_snippet.sent: Pellegrini demands consistency, a stable environment to allow Pellegrini to work with Pellegrini players on the training ground, preparing for a match every three days.
article_snippet.sent: That is the cycle for Pellegrini at Bayern, picking the bones out of the bones 3-0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt at the weekend before moving on to the Champions League quarter-final against Porto in Estadio do Dragao.
article_snippet.sent: Pellegrini is always looking ahead, much like the chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov after much like the chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov became friends during Pellegrini’s year in New York.
highlights_snippet.sent: Pellegrini's time at the Etihad appears to be drawing to a close .
  