Pep to leave at the end of the season

Newman Noggs said:
The day fans get to choose the club's key personnel is the day we end up like united, undermined from within. Anyone who truly supports the club will be behind the manager, whoever it may be.
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Remember the Pearce debacle,everyone wanted him as manager,and look what happened there
 
surprisedbygrass said:
How lucky we are . We have had the best manager in the world for squillions of seasons and now we get a chance to give him a good send off, and after a season when we've won at least two trophies . Pure class that he's leaving on a high . Most managers leave after a run of bad form and with a sour taste on the tongue. It'd be worse if he gradually dwindled and we had to watch the stress lines develop .

As to the future I trust to the club. . We are the best run club in the league and whoever takes over is stepping onto solid ground . Might be a rocky ride initially, as there'll be adjustments and a bit of churn , but long term it's not going to be a problem .

Yesterday I switched from SS3 to North Stand 2 . I loved my seat there and have so many wonderful memories under Pep , but am looking forward to what comes next . Thank you Pep from the bottom of my heart .
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When there was speculation last season, as there always is prior to a contract being signed, I said at the time I didn't think he would want to go out on a low after all he had won here. The media would have had a field day.

I suspect he might have had enough then but wanted to leave on a high and didn't want to leave us in a mess. Now that's not going to happen and I believe we're getting the best possible replacement in a manager that knows Pep and the club so knows how we operate. Maresca did a good job at Leicester, getting promoted in his first season and won 2 trophies and a 4th place finish at Chelsea in his first season. They were drifting when he arrived as they had been for some time, so that's no mean feat.

I just hope we come out of the 115 cleared, without too much damage or you can guarantee they'll say that's why he left. That said, I couldn't care less what the media say.
 
You mean like the noise now? Surely with Pep being Pep it would have been done in the most respectful way....leaks into the press and the Mail of all things seems out of character - how many signings did we make and not a word was leaked - whys it different now with this info?
 
City Raider said:
Chelsea have fallen off a cliff since he left but still can’t help it feels like the Moyes appt instead of going out and trying to get the best.
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That would be if we went for someone like Glasner. A throw of the dice kind of approach. This isn’t that. Pep has had his say that Maresca is the man to take over. A transition. Smooth.

This is nothing like Taggart pissed out of his face, his face planted on his desk and muttering the words ‘moyshy. Goo get moyshy’.
 
I'm still very numb having been convinced he would stay another year. It doesn't feel real.

Whilst I knew this day would come, I didn't want or expect it to be now. For Pep there is probably something quite romantic about ending his journey with us with another final win at Wembley, somewhere that's been central to his footballing story.

What a time we have had though. The FA Cup win against Stoke was enough for me. The league title, the way we won it, would have lasted me a lifetime. We won more with Pellegrini but Pep came in and showed us what absolute domination looked like. What the mentality of a successful club had to be. It's domination that has never been seen before in England, but in a style that has transformed English football and been a joy to watch.
 
Drewmanc said:
You mean like the noise now? Surely with Pep being Pep it would have been done in the most respectful way....leaks into the press and the Mail of all things seems out of character - how many signings did we make and not a word was leaked - whys it different now with this info?
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My gut says someone saw an opportunity to make a quick buck

This is big news
 
Drewmanc said:
You mean like the noise now? Surely with Pep being Pep it would have been done in the most respectful way....leaks into the press and the Mail of all things seems out of character - how many signings did we make and not a word was leaked - whys it different now with this info?
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Much bigger secret this one. I heard a rumour yesterday from someone connected to the North Stand development who said some of the contractors had got wind of it when asked to pull all the stops out for Sunday because “an announcement about Pep leaving was being made”. Unfortunately his leaving (if true) had coincided with lots of non City personnel being very close to the club, perhaps without the development it might have been easier to keep a lid on it.

Anyway in the end it doesn’t matter much how the news comes out, I’m just happy to have had Pep for three times longer than I expected him to stay.
 
I dont know if Maresca really is an elite manager, I guess time will tell.
But he took a Chelsea team, which lacked experienced players and was the youngest in the league by some margin, with no quality CBs or strikers, to top4 and a club World Cup win, beating PSG in the final with 3-0.

Pep leaving leaves the future somewhat uncertain, but one thing thats comforting is that if you look at his previous clubs as a manager, none of them became worse when he left. If anything, it looked like the philosophy and principles he had implemented was there to stay even after he left. Us getting a manager who shares Peps philosophy and has learned by the man himself should hopefully mean we will continue playing "the Pep way" rather than fall off.
 
I don’t know about others but this grief is hitting me slowly and then all of a sudden with a Tsunami of emotions.

I read the Orstein tweet a few hours late while I was half sleepy. And even though I knew he was going to leave either this season or max next season I couldn’t sleep for a couple of hours. The morning is no good either.
The most sad about all of this is I would never going to feel the same about a whole lot of stuff in football. I was joining college when it was announced and the entire summer I was being told by my red supporting mates he wont join little old City. And then it was announced and I kept sharing it on Facebook. Then came that Jesus goal against Southampton, league cups after league cups, those KDB passes, that FA cup final against Watford when we were like 5-0 up in 60 mins, 4 in the row and the treble ( which btw the CL final win was on my wedding day).


A decade later, when the new season starts and Pep won’t be in the dugout anymore, life won’t be the same again.
God I am gonna miss my bald genius!
 
City Raider said:
Chelsea have fallen off a cliff since he left but still can’t help it feels like the Moyes appt instead of going out and trying to get the best.
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The club is in great shape. We aren't replacing someone who had control of the whole football club like the rags did. We are replacing the manager with someone who knows the club, plays a similar style to Pep and has won things. That CWC win with Chelsea was a huge achievement. His win percentage there, even with their awful recruitment is marginally lower than Arteta's at Arsenal.

It will increase with us, where he will be backed. Get behind him and enjoy the ride. No one can replace Pep, bring the consistent success he did. But Maresca feels like a logical, considered appointment.
 
its the right decision to do it like this. Klopp announced he was going and they dropped off out of the title race; Pellegrini announced he was going and we nearly finished below United.
 
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