Pep only here 3 years?

squirtyflower said:
He felt he did one year too many at Barca, and a part of that was the behind the scenes shenanigans with the newly appointed Laporte who he felt sometimes hung him out to dry
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Laporte: 'There was a Barcelona before Guardiola and there will be one after he has gone'.

His reply to the question about if/when Guardiola would leave the Catalan club. It apparently pissed pep off no end.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
There's no doubt they are within their legal rights to request that we don't cut and paste whole articles but rather than ask politely, they threatened the site with legal action. That was just after a particularly shit article they'd published which caused outrage on here. Oddly enough, no other major forums seem to have been threatened in the same way and you can still see Mirror articles in full on them.

Plus Trinity Mirror are the biggest trolls regarding anything to do with our club, both through the Mirror itself and for other titles in their stable, like the Liverpool Echo. So fuck them.
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In the interest of even handedness shouldn't the forum management be making representations to the Mirror to point this anomaly out to them while soliciting their reasons as to why other forums are allowed to do exactly what we have been threatened with legal action for.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
If you read Pep Confidential, his wish is to coach youngsters and develop them. I could see him moving to the Academy or becoming something like Technical Director.
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He'll become technical director at City group eventually - probably after managing NYCFC and our Chinese franchise that will be created this summer.
 
Shaelumstash said:
If you hope all of the national press go bust, what do you think will fill the vacuum it leaves? There will be some very rich people / companies / government bodies with their own agenda who will be dictating the news cycle.

The system we have now of a free press is absolutely essential to democracy. As much as the tabloid press publish some utter click-baiting shite, at least there is competition. A free press means people will be held to account, the truth will out.

Take Murdoch who's the biggest media mogul in the country. If he controlled all of the press, the News of the World hacking scandal would never have come out. He could carry on doing as he pleased, invading people's lives, liberties, and even if he got caught, there would be no alternative press that would report on it.

I'm proud to live in a democratic country, and one of the corner stones of a democracy is a free press. They aren't perfect, but they play an incredibly important role in society. The idea that if all the national papers went bust that some plucky volunteers would research and publish all of the news for us on Twitter is just an absolute fallacy. How would those people survive and make a living, and how could we trust that they were telling the truth if they were not accountable to anyone?

Music is rather different. The cost of producing and marketing music has come down ten fold in the last 20 years. Music can be produced to recordable standard now in a bedroom with £2k worth of equipment. 25 years ago it might cost £2k a hour to work in a studio with comparable technology. Bands can now launch themselves on social media and get millions of plays / views for their songs for absolutely nothing. Again 25 years ago that exposure would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in marketing, video production etc.

Many people get music for free now, so artists aren't getting the same income from record sales. But songwriters are still getting paid comparable amounts for publishing when their music is used on radio, TV etc, and live gigs have never been more popular, with more people attending music events now than ever before, and prices going up to reflect it. So with music, yes sales are down, but the cost of producing and marketing music has also fallen dramatically, and the live aspect is doing very well.

Journalism is a completely different industry. Newspaper sales are in terminal decline, people are becoming more savvy online using adblockers etc, so even advertising revenues aren't picking up the slack. Music and art plays an important role in society, but it's essentially entertainment. Whether record labels exist in ten years, or whether musicians become millionaires, is debatable, but new music will always be produced regardless.

If national newspapers cease to exist, the ramifications for democratic society are a lot more stark than if the record labels go bust.
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Sadly the digital mediah strategy they are all following means bancrupcy for most if them. In all things they pander to the largest minority which becomes the majority coz everyone else fucks off and the remaining minority cannot sustain the organisation.
 
Pep will not be managing New York City or any Chinese club in 3 years. Obviously.
 
He was under immense pressure at Barca, in the book another way of winning it states along his day to day coaching duties he was left to deal with the press alone to a degree and he was basically the face of Barcelona, even arranging travel arrangements for the squad at times.his relationship with Laporta and Rossell was strained with both of them.

At City things will be far more structured for him, wouldn't surprise me at all if he stayed a lot longer than his three years, even taking on a role similar to Cruyff's at Barcelona, overseeing the whole football structure.For me the next man after Pep is even more important in maintaining and implementing his ideas moving forward .

A lot though for me depends on how long Soriano and Txiki stay at the club , perhaps now they see there job done after 3 years of a Pep who knows .

We will be a damn sight better club for him being here though that's a certainty.
 
This is purely conjecture on my part based a very flimsy knowledge of what happened at Barca when the Txiki, Pep and Soriano were last there.
The thought has crossed my mind that they were working under great political and financial pressure due to the way the management and politics of that club are structured. It could have been the working environment that didn't suit Pep rather than because of any arbitrary period that Pep has designated as his length of tenure at any club that he may manage at. I don't think he will get the same freedom to operate at any top other top club in Europe that he will get at City , and there is probably no chance in the foreseeable future that he would get the chance to work with Txiki and Soriano, which obviously means something to him. If things click then the three of them together could end up staying a very long time.
 
flb said:
He was under immense pressure at Barca, in the book another way of winning it states along his day to day coaching duties he was left to deal with the press alone to a degree and he was basically the face of Barcelona, even arranging travel arrangements for the squad at times.his relationship with Laporta and Rossell was strained with both of them.

At City things will be far more structured for him, wouldn't surprise me at all if he stayed a lot longer than his three years, even taking on a role similar to Cruyff's at Barcelona, overseeing the whole football structure.For me the next man after Pep is even more important in maintaining and implementing his ideas moving forward .

A lot though for me depends on how long Soriano and Txiki stay at the club , perhaps now they see there job done after 3 years of a Pep who knows .

We will be a damn sight better club for him being here though that's a certainty.
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You posted this while I was typing but it chimes exactly with my post and thinking. I hope you are right.
 
From what I have read, Pep is so intense in what he does that he burns out after 3 years. He could well get to 3 years and be involved in the process of employing a new coach as well.
 
If he is the family man everyone says he wants to be it will depend on his family. In December his children were aged
13 (Marius), 11 (Maria) and 7 (Valentina). Sadly I can't quickly find the exact birth dates but his is a very poor spread for changing work location for the next 9 years.
There are however windows for movement the school year when:
1. Marius is 16 in 3? years time.
2. Maria is 16 in 5/6? years time assuming Marius is 19 that school year.
 
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