Future Manager: Pep Guardiola?

Reading an excellent erticle about Pep Guardiola in the guardian got me thinking in a roundabout way; how long is Dalglish likley to have the job. Personally I think he will see out this current contract, which he has earned through exemplery performance, (maybe even have a short extension) and during that time we will try and groom the next manager. For some reason I cant see him wanting to saty on for a huge period of time, its just my gut feeling.

We seem to be, under fsg, trying to setup some sort of self-sustainable club with its own ethos, a continuity in style between the youth and senior squad and with talented people all dealing with different aspects of the club. The way the bringing through of youth will be complimented with big name signings makes us seem more akin to the barcelona as opposed to the arsenal method of running the club despite fsg having stated how they admire the way arsenal is run. And I feel the way the club is being set up seems to hint we want to become like barcelona; to have the club almsot running organically, with coaches and managers aswell as players often emmerging from within and all singing from the same hym-sheet in terms of the way football is to be played. For this reason I fell we may try and look from within, much in the way barcelona have done on their appointment with pep or perhaps more relivantley the way we have previously with managers such as paisley and dalglish.

Now this could either mean the appointment of a current member of the coaching staff, an ex player or possibly bringing somone in as assistant/ reserve team coach and grooming them for the position.

In terms of current members of the coaching set up ,Steve Clark looks the obvious candidate and I feel our resurgence under Kenny has definatley had alot to do with him. The guy thats just been promoted to managing the reserves is also very highly rated

In terms of the current playing staff of the appropriate age i think carra will go on to manage, I think it would be brilliant to see what happened to anyone that stepped out of line under his leadership!

Were we to bring somone in and groom them for the position for me the two obvious choices would be villa-boas the current porto manager who i have read alot on and sounds quite frankly like he's already an outstanding manager at the age of 33. I dont know how willing he'd be to do a year or to in an assisting capacity under kenny's scholarship (maybe having him nomially as coach with the king over seeing things from a directors position would be more suitable)

The other outstanding candidate for me is pep guardiola. Im gonna really struugle to explain my reasoning but ill give it a shot.
He really is an advocate of the high pressing, possesion based game which has really been the 'liverpool way' throughout our most succesful periods. He is young with a proven track record of success and would fit perfectley as a 'cog' in the highly structured continental way in which fsg seem to want the club to be run. I also feel that due to stress he will leave barcelona soon (maybe in a year or two), he will then most likley take a sabbatical, which means he will be looking to return to managment in roughly 3 years. At this stage I actually feel he may well accept a job in the stress free environment that would be the reserves/ assistant manger with the guarentee of eventially moving into the hotseat this would bring fantastic continuity between youth/reserve and first team and imo would be the perfect way to set up almost a dynasty. This would be the best possible way to completley intergrate youth into the first team that would -if the financial fair play rules actually work- potentially put head and shoulders above almost every team in britain.

constructive thoughts please (im well aware this has come out in abit of a jumble and would appreciate input if anyone knows what am gettin at)