Pep to leave at the end of the season

Prestwich_Blue said:
Look at it like this.
  • He's done 10 years here, which is more than he spent at Barca and Bayern combined. He is quite possibly the greatest coach in history, definitely in ours, but he wasn't staying for ever.
  • He is our 4th longest serving manager after Les McDowall, Wilf Wild and Ernest Mangnall. It wasn't that long ago we had five managers in one season.
  • He's delivered success beyond our wildest expectations, with only 2 trophyless seasons in those 10.
  • We've been Centurions and done the domestic quadruple, which no other club or their fans have witnessed.
  • We've done the proper treble, involving finally winning the Champions League.
  • We won 4 league titles in a row.
  • We've been to 4 consecutive FA Cup finals, and have been to Wembley so ,any times that some of us have got quite blasé about it and think "I can't be bothered with another trip there"
  • We were club world champions, and could rightfully sing "Best team in the land and all the world.
  • We've been involved in some epic title races and won them all, apart (probably) from this one (in a season where we've been under par by our high standards).
  • We've seen the most breathtaking football I've seen in over 50 years.
No one can take any of that away from us but who knows what the future, under Maresca and hopefully Vinny, holds. The wagon train will roll on and we should still be very much up there challenging for the major prizes.

There's a line in 'The Boys In Blue' that says "Maybe in another generation, when other lads have come to take our place...". Back in the late 1970's I couldn't imagine anyone talking the place of players like Bell, Tueart, Barnes, Corrigan, Hartford, Booth, etc. I never thought we'd see a generation of players like that. But we've seen legends like Kompany, Lescott, Zaba, Barry, Yaya, Aguero, Tevez, Dzeko, Fernandinho, Rodri, Ederson, the two Silva's, KDB, Walker, Haaland and so many others.

It's just been the most phenomenal experience and we should be eternally thankful for the indelible memories that Pep has given us.
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I'll be honest, I'm really struggling to accept this from you of all posters after some of the awful and disrespectful things you've said about Pep ever since we won the league in 2024. We've all had our hot-headed and frustrated moments after bad games across the last two seasons, but I think even with a cool head on non-matchdays you've shown very little in the way of affection or sentimentality towards him despite all he's done for us.

"The Spanish Stuart Pearce" (on two separate occasions), "His best years are behind him", crediting the 4-in-a-row to the players rather than Pep, "he's given up", "the Catalan Mark Hughes", "bored to tears watching his insipid football", blaming him personally for lost TV revenue, "I rarely have a clue what the fuck he's talking about", "he's washed", etc. And those are just from his performance threads across the last two seasons.

You've gloated for two years on this forum about apparently being "right" to call for his removal in the aftermath of the 2024 title victory but you've said virtually nothing about the FA Cup win over the weekend and all you had to say on the day we beat Arsenal to win the League Cup was "Bernardo counting the players in the tunnel. Need to count the fuckers on the field, because a few seem to disappear before getting on there."

And then there's this chestnut, which you posted after he spoke up about the suffering of innocent people in Palestine.
Prestwich_Blue said:
Did he say anything about the suffering of the innocents inside the Etihad, having to watch the tedious fare currently being served up by his team?
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I'm gonna be reading (and posting) a lot of sentimental and emotional stuff about Pep over the next few months but I'm gonna take anything sentimental posted by you with a massive pinch of salt, because frankly all you've done on here for two years is smugly strut about declaring Pep to be "the Spanish Stuart Pearce" while staring at your watch waiting for the day he leaves. Now it's come time and you're trying to join in with the teary-eyed send off? Nah. Not on my watch.
 
Maybe it was Pep who requested that the club shouldn’t go public with the news earlier. It would’ve been the only thing people talked about all season, like Pellegrini when Pep was about to take over.
 
citymad said:
That’s what I’m thinking. If it wasn’t for the leak, it would be It like the David Silva situation where the fans couldn’t say goodbye. When was the Club going to tell everyone? After Villa? This is so strange.
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Uhhhhh before the match on Sunday?
 
Petetheblu said:
Gutted.

Its going to be an almost impossible job for the next coach.

No one comes close to Pep.

Maresca seemed a bit dull at Chelsea, quite defensive. Heard rumours of him being a bit pectulant, admitted it was Simon Jordan, so could be a bag of shite?

I know this is controversial, but Klopp wouldn't be a bad shout. I still think he has work to do in the PL. He's won the CL and PL twice, probably would have won more if it wasn't for the Pep.

I think its worth a conversation.
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There's a part of me that would love Klopp to come in just to boil the piss of the dippers, but it aint going to happen. The squad isn't built for Klopp, its built for the system Maresca knows already.
 
citymad said:
But surely with the relationship he has with the owners he would’ve given them more time to find a replacement. Besides pep has given us a few hidden hints recently that he was staying. I guess I misread them.
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IMHO - They’ve all known since Maresca left Chelsea but he had to go on gardening leave because he wasn’t sacked - HE LEFT. Pep has continued till things fell into place time wise.

Good replacement who has probably been in regular contact.

We plan ahead
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Look at it like this.
  • He's done 10 years here, which is more than he spent at Barca and Bayern combined. He is quite possibly the greatest coach in history, definitely in ours, but he wasn't staying for ever.
  • He is our 4th longest serving manager after Les McDowall, Wilf Wild and Ernest Mangnall. It wasn't that long ago we had five managers in one season.
  • He's delivered success beyond our wildest expectations, with only 2 trophyless seasons in those 10.
  • We've been Centurions and done the domestic quadruple, which no other club or their fans have witnessed.
  • We've done the proper treble, involving finally winning the Champions League.
  • We won 4 league titles in a row.
  • We've been to 4 consecutive FA Cup finals, and have been to Wembley so many times that some of us have got quite blasé about it and think "I can't be bothered with another trip there"
  • We were club world champions, and could rightfully sing "Best team in the land and all the world.
  • We've been involved in some epic title races and won them all, apart (probably) from this one (in a season where we've been under par by our high standards).
  • We've seen the most breathtaking football I've seen in over 50 years.
No one can take any of that away from us but who knows what the future, under Maresca and hopefully Vinny, holds. The wagon train will roll on and we should still be very much up there challenging for the major prizes.

There's a line in 'The Boys In Blue' that says "Maybe in another generation, when other lads have come to take our place...". Back in the late 1970's I couldn't imagine anyone talking the place of players like Bell, Tueart, Barnes, Corrigan, Hartford, Booth, etc. I never thought we'd see a generation of players like that. But we've seen legends like Kompany, Lescott, Zaba, Barry, Yaya, Aguero, Tevez, Dzeko, Fernandinho, Rodri, Ederson, the two Silva's, KDB, Walker, Haaland and so many others.

It's just been the most phenomenal experience and we should be eternally thankful for the indelible memories that Pep has given us.
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On a technicality isn't it only 1 trophyless season? We won the community shield at start of last season.
 
citeh94 said:
I just find it so strange that the club wouldn’t give him more of a send off and more time to say goodbye etc.
I cannot believe or understand why you would wait until a week left in the season and with a year left on his contract and denied multiple times he would “never” leave City this season.
For the biggest departure in the club’s history I would have thought he would have given months of notice.
Also seems odd that he will leave alongside so many other players when the team is midway through a huge transition.
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This is the way Guardiola would want it. Have always thought that.

If he were to go into next season with 1 year left, how does he get the players to buy into what he wants when they know he would be leaving. The pressure on the last season would be immense. He knew this most likely would be his last when he signed until 2027. 2027 was just there to keep momentum and belief this season.

Pep doesn’t want all the pomp and ceremony for him. He wants the players to get the adulation.
 
eastmanc said:
So, Martin Samuels said he's staying, see how this works, one of them is going to be right. Anyway Holt is a City hating ****. I wouldn't expect anything else from him. That article has absolutely nothing new in it and is just regurgitated shite from previous articles. To suggest Pep might stay on in some form is ridiculous.
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Even if he is leaving, your comments about Holt are 100% true. And then some.

Btw, when/where did Samuel say that pal? Must have missed it.
 
So going with the glass half full perspective I'm thinking he's going now as the charges are due to be announced, we will be cleared and he can leave on a high feeling exonerated leaving the new man to come in for the new city era with a clean slate charges wise and a fresh start.


I honestly think if we were getting done he's stubborn and would stick with us to see out his contract.

However I have no real clue lol just my gut feeling but to me it makes sense.
 
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