Pep to leave at the end of the season

someone said a few pages back that the leak has ruined city and pep announcing it

As a matter of interest, how do you think they were going to announce it?
I’ve seen tweets saying the club were planning on announcing it next week, as in after the Villa game.

Why all the secrecy and lack of announcement from Pep?
 
If it is true then I hope the new stand is full for Sunday. If not the fuckers will have their red pen out and we’ll be crucified for it!
 
Living in Leicester, Enzo's one season in charge of them completely polarised opinion. It defied belief. You'd get one guy at work lauding him as the new messiah, but the guy next to him would want him gone.

He took them from relegation to champions in one season. Changed them from the "long ball to Vardy" team to a possession based footballing team, winning the league at a canter. This, despite losing Tielemans, Maddison and Barnes in the summer transfer window.

I'm not absolutely convinced, but I do like his attitude. He takes no shit from the press. Takes no shit from fans, even threatening to resign from Leicester mid-season, if they didn't appreciate his football philosophy. He seems to have the same balls as Pep.

Lets no forget, Chelsea have a history of letting people go who go on to great things, KDB being the most obvious. Maybe, Enzo will be the next one.
 
Frankie lad said:
I noticed an edge to his press conferences in the week like he really couldn’t be arsed to be there. Spikey at all times when asked about him leaving and he looked wistful and a bit alone on the pitch at Wembley.
Contrasts hugely with his normal humour and season long enthusiasm and joy with the team and job
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Odd how people read and interpret things differently as most on here have been saying the opposite
 
Ho Chi Man City said:
He wasn’t liked by Chav and Leicester fans, that’s the worry, he doesn’t have 10% of Pep’s aura, can see a very difficult time on the horizon.

Saying all that, he’ll still get my 100% support and I’ll be wishing him all the best.
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You're wrong with your comments, but, in any event, delete your 1st paragraph, then if he's got your 100% support!
 
Suddenly feeling the weight of all this.

How long Pep's been here, how much has changed in my life since he came in, how much is shifting around me now as I really start entering my 30s, and how Pep going will add to that.

I was completely relaxed about turning 30 a couple of years ago but the rate of change in my life over the last 18 months has been really eye-opening for me - my adolescence is definitely disappearing from the rearview mirror.

I've recently got married, learned to drive, and bought a house. All the big things my life was building towards are now complete. Now it's just me, my wife, and my job, and that'll sort of be it. No more obligatory targets or milestones.

But beyond that, my wife lost her dad, my parents have slowly started losing their friends, my friends have slowly started losing their parents, some of my other friends have started having kids, I'm an uncle now to my sister-in-law's daughter.

In my personal life I've decided to call time on the music act I've been performing as since I was 19, my wife and I are planning on leaving Stockport behind in the next 12 months in order to move to somewhere else in Greater Manchester, and I recently left a job I'd been working in for the last 3-4 years.

And now Pep's going. I'd just turned 22 when we hired him. I was about to start my masters degree at Salford. I was living in a flat in Manchester with my parents (and my girlfriend at the time, who basically moved in with us because her living situation at home was tough). Thinking about what's happened since then - all the good and all the bad - is making me well up.

Over the last 12 months the City team that defined my entire 20s will have basically completely gone. I am excited and nervous about what comes next but I'm feeling awfully melancholic and reflective right now. So much feels like it's changing around me and yeah, Pep going is another big change. A long-standing fixture that's just not gonna be there anymore, all while several other eras of my adolescence and 20s come to definitive ends as lots of new eras for my 30s come into view.

Don't think I'm going to make it to the end of Sunday.
 
ArniArason said:
Glad you're not making the big decisions mate. City have been successful because they've created a common DNA within the club. You only need to look around European football to see our ex academy players and staff everywhere, from managing CL Final teams to even running our current title rivals. Maresca is a product of that same DNA, if he comes he'll have everything he needs from the people he already knows. Simply carting in a big name is something clubs who haven't created decades of DNA do
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Agreed. Because Ageuro, KdB, Haaland, Kompany, and countless others were all big names when they joined city weren't they?

Cannot understand the mentality of those that think the secret to success is simply to sign a big name. How many have turned up in the PL and failed? Maresca is known to the club, he worked with Pep so they know exactly what they are getting. He won more at Chelsea in his first season than Pep did at City.
 
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