Vicky and her team have played an absolute blinder in the timing of the Pep announcement.
The second busiest day of football news (after the summer transfer deadline day) is the day we choose to release that Pellegrini is leaving.
Any other day and it would be wall to wall coverage of how shabbily we have treated Pellegrini, a full week's worth of how we've got a terrible track record with managerial changes.
Instead, SSN and the papers are concentrating on whether Steven Fletcher joins Marseille or whatever else is breaking.
Of course we will get plenty of coverage for Pep's arrival which is great, but I think releasing it today was great strategy as it's almost like it's been an open secret that Pep's coming anyway, so confirming it on a really busy news day avoids the journalists getting bored and making up negative shit to throw at us.
By the time the transfer furor has died down, us signing Pep will be old news, so no need for the negative shite, and by the summer when he arrives they'll all be desperate to attend the unveiling and want a piece of the best manager in the game.
I've been a vocal critic of Vicky and her team, as I have Pellegrini. But as with the manager, I am gracious enough to hold my hands up when they have clearly done a great job. Vicky and the team have played an absolute blinder with the timing of this announcement, hopefully the shape of things to come!
