Barca boss Guardiola drops 2012 exit hint

BARCELONA coach Pep Guardiola has dropped a heavy hint that he will leave the club when his contract expires in summer 2012.

Guardiola, who took over the reins of his boyhood club in summer 2008, prefers short-term deals and signed a one-year contract extension in February to keep him at the Nou Camp until the end of next season.

The 40-year-old yesterday told Italian television channel Rai Sport: “I think my time is ending here in Barcelona.