Pep to leave at the end of the season

I don't understand why Maresca would be talking to clubs in Italy up until very recently, if he was the only show in town for City?

I've always believed it would be Maresca, but it still points to Pep being conflicted and he's a man who would be allowed to change his mind at the drop of a hat.

He was supposed to leave last year with Txiki and Khaldoon talked him around.

It's hard to say whether rushing the completion of the North Stand for the final game had the motivation of a Pep goodbye behind it?

We were also in a title race up until last night and that is another good reason.

It's truly a bizarre strategy to shift thousands of tickets for a Pep goodbye three days before the final game, with no official confirmation from anybody.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Similar story at Anfield. When Shankly retired, he was always coming down to training and hanging around. After a bit of it, Paisley took him aside and said, in a friendly but firm way, “Enough”.
And Paisley went on to become a more successful manager than Shankly, if that's measured in trophies. Although of course Shankly more or less built the modern LFC.
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I heard a slight variation on that story. Yes the bit about Shankly hanging around training sessions was, apparently, true. But Paisley was a quietly spoken man. And was seemingly afraid/in awe of Shankly and was reluctant to say anything to the Scot. So he went to the board of directors and asked if one of them could have a quiet word with Shankly. Which they did, and the issue was pretty much sorted overnight. Shankly seemingly didn't take it too well, and started going to Everton's training ground. And complained that he was treated better by Everton than he was by Liverpool.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I agree. I suspect Co-Op Live would have been quietly booked months ago, not as an afterthought following the FA Cup & WSL wins.
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Like when we won the carabao cup? ;)

They own it, dont need to book it, as someone corrected me earlier.

But yes agree, it would have been covered some time ago, in either eventuality.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
I don't understand why Maresca would be talking to clubs in Italy up until very recently, if he was the only show in town for City?

I've always believed it would be Maresca, but it still points to Pep being conflicted and he's a man who would be allowed to change his mind at the drop of a hat.

He was supposed to leave last year with Txiki and Khaldoon talked him around.

It's hard to say whether rushing the completion of the North Stand for the final game had the motivation of a Pep goodbye behind it?

We were also in a title race up until last night and that is another good reason.

It's truly a bizarre strategy to shift thousands of tickets for a Pep goodbye three days before the final game, with no official confirmation from anybody.
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He was talking to clubs in Italy but a Napoli journalist said that it was through Mendes first, Napoli wanted to put forward their project but Maresca said he wanted City. Same with Juve apparently earlier in the season.
 
domalino said:
Everything about it is weird.

We’re 3 days out from his last ever game if he’s going. No one knows definitively what’s going on.

But realistically no one would be telling the sponsors he’s leaving if it’s not confirmed. The club would have denied it properly if it wasn’t true. Every journalist on the planet backing up the story makes sense with what we know about them all waiting for 1 more source to confirm it, and then Holt getting that from Puma (?).

Maybe he just wants control of when/where it’s announced. Maybe the legal situation with Maresca/Chelsea complicates it.


Leaving at such short notice after limping out of a league title doesn’t feel right for the greatest manager in history at the club that has made up most of his career, but it is his right to choose how he goes.

I’ve gone from convinced he’s staying to desolation/grief to clutching desperately at straws.
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I (now) don't find anything about it weird any more.

Other than the frustration of it being leaked.

It would have all fallen into place imo, had Holt not run the story when he did.
 
Coatigan said:
It won't be Maresca or his team. Nobody is that thick.
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His agent has made a career of playing people and clubs against each other, the best in the business at it.

Maresca doesn't need to have any knowledge of it.

I'm just stating that his camp have had loose lips on this City contingency and Chelsea were also aware of it.
 
5 Hit Gibbon said:
It's mental. I can't get my head around people saying they are excited about Maresca coming in. Is it just part of the coping mechanism? However you look at it, it's a massive downgrade.
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Enzo has been one of three stand out candidates for a while. The other two being Vinnie, and Luis Enrique.

But most seem to be on the page that Vinnie would benefit from staying in Bavaria for a bit longer, probably that is true, and Enrique is most likely simply not leaving Paris right now, even for us.

Apart from perhaps those two, nobody else fits us as well as Enzo would. He has been groomed for this job for most of his coaching career.

I say all this as someone who isn't 100% convinced yet that the rumours are even true.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
They've known since early this year but didn't want the same situation as the one where Pellegrini was effectively undermined by the announcement Pep was coming, months in advance.

Is there a right way to do it? You either go down the Pellegrini route or, like now or when Mancini was sacked, hang on to the news and hope it doesn't get leaked. In both Mancini's and Pep's cases that was a forlorn hope.

Now we're not in a title race they should make it clear what the situation is, but the club's communication has always been piss poor.

Last night or this morning would have been perfect for an announcement, as it would overshadow Arsenal's title win.
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I hope if Pep is waiting to announce it he does so in the ground Sunday to match going fans. Not at the Co-op event.
 
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