I don’t blame anyone for wanting to live in a different city to Manchester. Manchester is the filthiest grittiest most hotch-potch city in Britain: poor roads, loads of traffic, loads of litter, loads of fly tipping, bin bags lining streets, weird bin juice and sick and piss stains on pavements, loads broken pavements, nice paved areas dug up by water and electric companies and filled back in with cheap tar mac making it look shit, still loads of homeless people lying in the street in prime areas…
Also the entire city centre feels like a building site and has done for years. Every street seems to be having building work going on which makes for a very untidy, chaotic and unfinished feel to the place. Manchester will probably look great in about 15 years when everywhere isn’t a building site but until then, living here can be difficult for those who can’t just get on with all that going on around them.
It’s a very difficult city to love and it’s a very easy city to not love. And that’s coming from someone who is from here and loves the place.
It is a lifestyle wish to move for Bernardo. He’s just someone passing through this city and sometimes the shit side of it can be a stumbling block to some people. He also found it very difficult during the lockdowns living here and that could have left a negative feeling of the city on him. I think he’d have been happier and more settled not living in the city.
Hopefully we get one more season out of him and give ourselves a year to line up a proper replacement. In that year, let’s enjoy him while we can and not degrade his efforts and achievements (like I’ve already seen in some posts) because he’s been a great servant to the club, I’d argue nobody has ever worked harder towards the cause than him.
