Pep to leave at the end of the season

BringBackSwales said:
My kids are 19 and 17, I think they were 8 and 6 when they first got season tickets, so they had a year or two of Pellegreni and then 10 of Pep, they have been spoiled - as have I but I am an FOC so I’ve got experience of the shit that can follow great times (I started going in the Book Bell Lee Summerbee era), it feels like a very very sad time, if true
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Mine are 17 (she's 18 on Wednesday) and 15 and like yours have only seen great, unprecedented success. Hopefully bad times won't follow and the club has seemingly done its best to ensure a smooth transition. Maresca is not a bad choice at all for 2 or 3 years maybe longer and who is to say he won't be a success. He is very well respected at City which is enough for me.

I still hope Pep stays, though, because he is the very best.
 
The BBC have written a decent piece on Pep tonight. It’s open for comments and the usual gang of bitter and twisted morons are out in force. I despair at some of the knuckle draggers who lurk on the BBC to advertise their absolute stupidity. Our education system is clearly failing in a major way if these brain dead morons are anything to go by.
 
True we could have put it all to bed if he was staying which obviously begs the question maybe he isn't. Think ive just had a belly full of all the shite City, Pep and us fans have had to put up with over the years, anyway CTID !
 
youngbob said:
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.
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We've 'spoken' before on BM regarding memories. Your post, has, yet again got to me and I am upset.

So much has changed for you in the last decade, you sound in a good place, but there is a lot happening around you. It is life and whilst it can be wonderful, it also sucks at times. I cant believe that it was 10 years ago that I went to Peps welcome party at The Etihad - where does the time go? Even though I am a female FOC there have been many positives during Peps tenure in the life of me and my family; and there have been pretty dire health issues for my hubby, 2023 was great as a Blue, not so good as the partner of a Big C victim. But throughout it all was the consistency and comfort ( and on odd occasions annoyance with Peps ' overthinking') of the team, where I could lose myself for a few hours each week and after all We've Got Guardiola.

All good things come to an end, life changes, nothing stays the same, but I'm just not quite ready for him to leave yet.

I would love to relive 10 June 2023, that was theeee moment for me.x
 
Sad day if it happens. It’s been one hell of a ride, but if the king is dead, long live the king.
It’s been imminent for a while. I just hope he goes out all guns blazing and calls out all the shite that’s been thrown at us the last few years.
I really hope he does a no holds barred book on his time at City and throws all the corrupt fuckers under the bus.
Thanks for everything Pep, you’ll never ever be forgotten.
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
Like in the 1960's when George Lazenby followed Sean Connery as Bond, it was doomed before it even started.

Like you say I can see Vinny as our manager in the future.
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Yet very often, when you look at polls as to the Bond films, best to worst OHMSS is very near the top, some people say its the best - so remember that if EM gets the job!
 
Medical people say that ten years in a stressful job like coach of our side is dangerous - look at Klopp. That said, Pep looks happy and relaxed and hasn't aged dramatically like Klopp who clearly needed a break. We never dreamed Pep would stay ten years. Devastated and gutted doesn't touch the sides.
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
Like in the 1960's when George Lazenby followed Sean Connery as Bond, it was doomed before it even started.

Like you say I can see Vinny as our manager in the future.
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I love Vinny, but Id just rather Luis Enrique.

The Budesliga is a one team league, VK needs to win the CL for me to believe. And after our much missed #EcclesBlue, i was VKs second most ardent fan.
 
Gordyola said:
How and when do you think it should be announced
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Certainly before the last game of the season by the club and Pep anyway

The least he deserves is a full stadium staying to clap him and not a lap of honour to a third filled ground, which would happen if we don’t win the league and he hasn’t announced that he’s going
 
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