Manchester City are closing in on a deal to name Pep Lijnders as part of Pep Guardiola's new-look backroom staff, sources have told ESPN.

Lijnders, who served as Jürgen Klopp's assistant at Liverpool , is set to replace Juanma Lilo, whose contract at the Etihad Stadium will expire this summer.

Fellow assistant Íñigo Domínguez is also leaving, along with set-piece coach Carlos Vicens, who has agreed to become head coach of Portuguese side Braga .

Sources have told ESPN that talks with Lijnders have been positive and that the club hope to make an announcement once other new additions to Guardiola's staff have been agreed.

Lijnders joined Liverpool under Brendan Rodgers in 2014 and began working with Klopp following the German's appointment at Anfield in October 2015.

He took over a

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