Pep to leave at the end of the season

Tom Connolly said:
I'll be honest mate, the only place on the internet where people are "wondering" is on here. I think if you haven't accepted it's obviously 1) over 2) Maresca next season, then you're either the biggest cynic of all time or in denial.
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I'm still in denial, let me dream for a little while that its all made up, until Pep tells us.
 
B\connellblue said:
"Really tough and sensitive"?
It's football, not a family bereavement we're talking about here.
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It is quite emotional subject for many City fans as we love the fella. I appreciate you and some others have wanted him out for some time and you’re probably happy or not arsed one bit, but for many that is not the case. For me the comms around this has been pretty poor.
 
I don't understand why the club decided to bring Maresca in...

Except Fifa Club World Cup, I have reviewed his first season at Chelsea and this season..

From City experience, in our worst season with Pep, we met Maresca's Chelsea twice.
Away Game: Without Rodri, Rico Lewis and Savio. City won 2:0
Home Game: Without Rodri, maybe our worst period, Khusanov gifted first goal and we managed to win that game anyway 3:1

As for the other results. 69 points, 2 points less than City - doesn't speak much
This season he dropped a lot of points as well, I don't think his departure was related to talking with City only, the results weren't good as well..

So, I always thought we would get "Top Manager" after Pep, with proven experience and background and titles.
Maresca is a big experiment.

P.S What's Roberto Mancini doing these days
 
blueste41 said:
He originally said he had one more year and he is staying he now says he needs to talk to Khaldoon, that's a backwards step surely?
I think he's earned the right to say he is going when he wants.
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I may stand corrected, but I'm not sure he's ever actually said he's staying - he's been careful to say he has a contract for another season, which intimates he's staying, but that contract has a one year get-out clause which he can unilaterally exercise. So he's not telling fibs - he's just stating the facts.

I still cling to the hope that he will stay another season, and that Khaldoon will make him an offer that he can't refuse and he signs a two year extension - then there would be a media meltdown!! The snide journalists (we know who they are) who are suggesting that he's leaving early before the "guilty' verdict is delivered would wet themselves (hopefully in public).
 
Tom Connolly said:
I'll be honest mate, the only place on the internet where people are "wondering" is on here. I think if you haven't accepted it's obviously 1) over 2) Maresca next season, then you're either the biggest cynic of all time or in denial.
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That is because City fans have a vested interest in wondering what is happening with City and other fans are not that curious, or knowledgeable enough to question.
 
noseve said:
Two trophies is a brilliant return, and I've really enjoyed this season - but we shouldn't get too carried away.

I think that we beat 11 sides in total to win those cups - including Huddersfield, Swansea, Watford, Exeter, Salford and Southampton. So effectively we came through five tough ties to win two pieces of silverware. Looking at it that way, it's surprising that it isn't done more often. I'm not belittling the achievement, these are the facts.

Liverpool have been useless and this forum would have you believe that arsenal are the poorest champions for years - yet we still didn't win the league. If arsenal can be considered genuinely crap, despite winning it, then it must be possible that our coming second also papers over some cracks?

Apart from the short run from the Carabao final onwards, ending with beating Arsenal at home, there was only the odd game where we really looked the part. Posters called Anfield and the Bernebeu 'statement' wins when they were anything but. Terrific results, definitely, but not particularly outstanding performances, either of them.

If Pep does go and the new boss should try more adventurous football, we shouldn't forget that we've been punching above our weight this year when inevitably comparing any drop-off in performance by looking back at this year through rose-tinted spectacles.
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You do not win 2 major trophies and finish second after taking the title race to the final 2 matches unless you have something special. The one thing people like you keep ignoring is that we're a team in transition and to get even what we did achieve was a superb achievement. The title was always big ask in my opinion yet we came incredibly close and would have still been in it but for everything going their way.

You're not going to get world class football from a young team who is just getting to know each other so I'm not exactly sure what it is you're looking for, but you're never going to find it. The point with Arsenal is not so much that they're a crap team but from a viewer's point of view they play crap football, scrambling to win matches for at least the latter half of the season and totally unconvincing but with a hell of a lot of luck, if you want to call it that.

No red cards, no penalties given against them and decisions going their way, such as the handball by Gabriel in the Etihad match which was identical to Bernardo's v Real when he got sent off, yet Gabriel doesn't even get a free kick awarded against him. Then the attempted head butt later on, and several "yellow card" fouls. He could have been sent off 3 times in that match. Then there was the debacle of the West Ham disallowed goal where the numerous fouls against West Ham players don't even get considered. Those are just two examples of the "luck" they have had, while Haaland gets instantly flagged offside against Bournemouth which looked like a VERY close call, yet unlike with other attacks the linesman chose to raise his flag early and as usual we didn't even get to see a replay.

Those little differences are what can win or lose a title. You don't have to look like world beaters, Arsenal have proved that.
 
The silence is deafening really, I mean if they think we can just wave bye bye after Sunday's match, and for those not able to go the "after party" Monday to hear whatever it is officially then it's a case once again of the club treating us like fucking idiots.

Unless there is a U turn on recent reports, I don't get what the big issue is here really at all, just get us bloody told, we deserve that
 
cleavers said:
Well they can't "after us" when we haven't employed him yet, and even if we do, I doubt they'd get very far.
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It was all a bit vague.
Stefan summed it up by saying that if Maresca had to pay money to Chelsea, we would in turn pay that to Maresca.
I'm guessing its all a lot of hogwash.
 
uwe rosler 28 said:
The longer this drags without an announcement the more I think he's seeing out his contract. Shirley the club would want a big send off for pep and not leave it till the very last min to tell people?
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And if they leave it until the very last minute what difference is it going to make? It's not going to radically change the attendance on Sunday when it's most likely going to be announced.
 
Georgian said:
I don't understand why the club decided to bring Maresca in...

Except Fifa Club World Cup, I have reviewed his first season at Chelsea and this season..

From City experience, in our worst season with Pep, we met Maresca's Chelsea twice.
Away Game: Without Rodri, Rico Lewis and Savio. City won 2:0
Home Game: Without Rodri, maybe our worst period, Khusanov gifted first goal and we managed to win that game anyway 3:1

As for the other results. 69 points, 2 points less than City - doesn't speak much
This season he dropped a lot of points as well, I don't think his departure was related to talking with City only, the results weren't good as well..

So, I always thought we would get "Top Manager" after Pep, with proven experience and background and titles.
Maresca is a big experiment.

P.S What's Roberto Mancini doing these days
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That's a conspiracy I can get behind: Viana out, Maresca out, Mancini in :)
 
I'msingingingtheblues said:
I may stand corrected, but I'm not sure he's ever actually said he's staying - he's been careful to say he has a contract for another season, which intimates he's staying, but that contract has a one year get-out clause which he can unilaterally exercise. So he's not telling fibs - he's just stating the facts.

I still cling to the hope that he will stay another season, and that Khaldoon will make him an offer that he can't refuse and he signs a two year extension - then there would be a media meltdown!! The snide journalists (we know who they are) who are suggesting that he's leaving early before the "guilty' verdict is delivered would wet themselves (hopefully in public).
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Are you new? For the past week Blues have been saying he's staying because he says he is staying!
One example.
Her "Do you reckon you will be here next season?"
Pep "Yeah?"
Her "Definitely?"
Pep " I am here, I have a contract"

www.bbc.co.uk

Pep Guardiola: Man City manager insists he has 'one more year' on deal

Manager Pep Guardiola insists he has "one more year" remaining on his contract at Manchester City as speculation continues over his future at the club.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
I do kinda get Pep leaving now even though he's got 1 year left. Next season would just be a full season of Pep tributes, knowing Pep was leaving at the end, it would be constant media content , it would take it away from the overall season it would just be about Pep and I dont think he'd want that.

Leaving now means he can say goodbye celebrate the trophies with the fans and say goodbye without 12 months of constant media articles etc
 
Bez said:
Until something is confirmed on the Man City official website, Pep is still manager at the club. That said, the silence from the club is now deafening on the basis that every news outlet has announced he is leaving. Whilst it's nice for Pep and Khaldoon to have a chat, but if they already know that Pep is going then City should get control of the comms and put something out there to close the loop. I hope Pep stays. I don't think he will stay, but until City communicate something, anything is possible. And remember, Liam Gallagher said Pep's staying...LOL
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City HAVE got control of comms, that's why they're announcing it when THEY decide, on THEIR terms and not when the media decides, or anybody else for that matter.

The reality is there wouldn't be this much noise if it wasn't true, virtually all the major news outlets have confirmed that he is leaving. I think a lot on here just need to accept it now and move on.
 
uwe rosler 28 said:
The longer this drags without an announcement the more I think he's seeing out his contract. Shirley the club would want a big send off for pep and not leave it till the very last min to tell people?
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The longer the club takes to stop all the noise if he isn't going the more I'm certain he's going.
At this point I honestly don't know why it's still a debate.
 
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