Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola will never consider taking the Spain job.

That's according to his biographer, Marti Perarnau, who has just published his third book on the former Barcelona coach.

"I don't think due to sporting reasons (he would choose not to coach in Spain), but social reasons, yes," Peranau told Marca, referring to Guardiola's Catalan activism. "Because political reasons within football would make little sense.

"You don't manage a team because of politics, that is, because you are favourable to this or that person's policy. I think I would rule it out more for social reasons.

"There is an obvious rejection, there is a very significant part of the Spanish people who think differently than Pep and, therefore, there is a rejection, but it is social. I don't think it's political."

He also said: "I also don't think it would enter the mind of the Spanish Federation to have him, but for the same reason.

"It would be provoking an unnecessary conflict, neither one side nor the other wants that.

"Why are you going to get into that mess? That's how I see it."