It's absolutely not there to 'lure' Pep but if you look at the various ways Pep plays, then look at the way our academy teams now play, imo it is very much set up with Pep in mind. Of course it would still go on without him, but he is the ideal they had in mind, imo, to pull together the academy & the first team & he is the person who (hopefully) will create a bridge between the football philosophy we are trying to create at the academy & the future style of the first team.
Currently there are few similarities & the first team is out of synch with the rest of the club. But the academy teams are an 'attempt' at Pep football, but basically put together by lesser coaches, without Pep. We now have 'the man' to tell everyone which bits we are getting right & which bits we can improve on, in order to bring all the pieces together & as the first team does almost nothing remotely anywhere near on the same planet tactically as a Pep team, once the first team evolves into a Pepteam, so it should be easier for kids to move from the academy to fill in for the first team.
I also don't believe our links with Pep's brother are there purely to influence Pep, I think it's part of the same plan, to try & get kids through to the first team. I think we will see it develop more in the future.
This piece
http://spielverlagerung.com/2014/12/25/juego-de-posicion-under-pep-guardiola/ which has been linked in ths thread & several others, imo shows for one what a turkey shoot our formations are compared to Pep's, but also for anyone who watches the academy teams (on a good day) you can see the similarities in what they are trying to do, & what Pep is trying to do & the complete lack of any relation to that & Pellegrini.
