Pep to leave at the end of the season

Eric Hitchmough said:
Dan Roan is a fucking disgrace, although I don’t know why I’m remotely surprised.

He could type ‘115 charges’ quick enough for that piece of shit feature he’s published on BBC Football this afternoon.
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Roan is an evil blister who will come to a bad end hopefully

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Pep Guardiola: Manchester City's 115 Premier League charges and a legacy that could be rewritten

With Pep Guardiola expected to leave Manchester City at the end of this season, how do the club's 115 Premier League charges for alleged financial rule breaches potentially affect his legacy at Etihad Stadium?
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The club won't comment or make statements on the day of a game. Soul focus is on that officially. Its just shocking timing.
 
johnny crossan said:
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Chelsea to launch legal complaint over Man City’s Enzo Maresca pursuit​

Stamford Bridge club unhappy with the effect Italian’s abrupt departure had on their season which could result in no European football

Chelsea are shaping up for a legal battle with Manchester City over their putative appointment of Enzo Maresca, who left Stamford Bridge in contested circumstances at the start of the year.
With Pep Guardiola expected to leave City after a decade in charge, the first choice to replace him is the Italian who departed Chelsea abruptly earlier this season. Although the terms of that split have never been commented on publicly by either side, the allegation that Maresca had told Chelsea’s ownership that he was in talks with City has not been disputed.
The expectation is that Chelsea will seek compensation from City, with the added threat of disclosure about the terms of Maresca’s departure from Stamford Bridge, and the events in the months leading up to it. Neither club have commented on the situation.
For any action to be brought against City it is understood that a complaint would have to be made by Chelsea to the Premier League, which would then be obliged to investigate under the terms of its own rules.
It is expected that the legal case Chelsea have in that regard will unfold when, as expected, Maresca is appointed by City. That announcement may take some time given the significance of Guardiola’s departure. Maresca, 46, has said nothing in public since his Chelsea departure at a time when the club were fifth. Although Chelsea have not confirmed, it is understood that there was no major compensation pay-out to the Italian.
Chelsea had started to fall away this season in the final weeks leading up to Maresca’s sacking on Jan 2. The team were on a run of just one win in seven Premier League games with suggestions from inside the club that all was not well. By the end, his position was considered untenable by the club.

Maresca’s record at Chelsea​



It culminated in him skipping post-match media duties following a draw with Bournemouth. Before that run of poor results, Chelsea had been in second place in the Premier League and there remains considerable disquiet at the club that the Maresca departure undermined their season. The arrival of Liam Rosenior as Maresca’s successor did not work out as Chelsea would have wished and the club is currently on its fourth managerial appointment of the season.
City have been obliged to plan at different points over recent years when it looked like Guardiola might be wavering in his future. There have been times in the past when they have looked closely at lining up another assistant of his, Mikel Arteta, the Arsenal manager currently in pole position to win the Premier League this season.
Maresca is well-known to City Football Group, having been part of the City staff on two occasions – one year in charge of the club’s Under-23s in 2020-2021 and then as a first-team assistant to Guardiola in the 2022-2023 season.
He was appointed by Chelsea as the Championship-winning manager of Leicester City in the summer of 2024. He won the Uefa Conference League in his first season and then the Fifa Club World Cup, having studiously avoided any controversy. The relationship with Chelsea broke down in a relatively short space of time. After the win over Everton on Dec 13, Maresca said that he had experienced “the worst 48 hours” of his career – interpreted as a direct attack on Chelsea and its BlueCo ownership.
That was later understood to be around the issue of return to play for injured players. Nevertheless, it was interpreted on some sides as deliberately provocative.
Without a win in their last seven Premier League games, Chelsea play Tottenham Hotspur at home on Tuesday night currently out of the European places in tenth position. The club have appointed Xabi Alonso and his coaching team to take over in the summer. City play Bournemouth when only a win will keep the title race alive.
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Convicted cheats whinging about underhandedness?

Heard it all now.
 
JewelZee said:
Arsenal would run the risk of it blowing up in their faces. I was much more concerned about this Bournemouth match before the news of Pep's leaving broke. I fully expect our boys to go balls to the wall for their gaffer and run through the Cherries. Anything short of an all out siege mentality would be extremely disappointing. If ever there's been a boss who has earned a "win it for the skipper" sendoff its Pep!
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Dias, Foden, Bernardo, Rodri, haaland will all instill in the others the brick walls they must be willing to run through.
 
Whenever Pep leaves, he'll do so as an icon, a true legend.
But I'm sure a future without him will be exciting and full of success! Bring it on, our domination and passion fot the club and players will not stop with Pep leaving.
 
We've got Guardiola said:
Unfortunately I think we'll get beat or draw tonight and then this weekend is going to be awful.

Season over for me and more so the end of the best ever era.
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For me tonight is a win-win.

If we lose or draw then we can go into Sunday stress-free, knowing that the day will be all about Pep, Bernardo, and Stones, all before a big party on Monday celebrating the cup double and the success of City Women and U18s.

If we win tonight then we go into Sunday with a chance of the title, knowing we've already got the cup double under our belts and knowing that we were in the title race until the very final day. What will be will be really.

Both options are appealing to me.
 
Chak19 said:
Why the fuck would he manage England after all the shit the wanker media has given him ? fuck that.
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Already said but I’ll repeat myself..
The FA, the media and a large percentage of England fans don’t deserve him.
Treated him like shit and have given him no respect in 10 years.
If he becomes England manager the hypocritical cunts with be up his arse quicker than Ferguson to the bar at last orders.
I’ve always been prepared for the day Pep leaves, but if he becomes England manager it’ll be a kick in the bollocks.
Fuck them cunts!!
 
Going to miss Pep more than I've missed any player departure and will for much longer. Class act all the way around.
At least we had this decade of football glory... better to have had it and lose him (as we all knew we eventually would) than to have not had him at all.

Football will be less special for me for awhile the first game Pep isn't in the box.
 
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