M18CTID
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Yeah, it wasn’t like an official interview or anything. Think it was during Pep’s sabbatical when he was spending time in New York and Baconface had a gaff over there too so they met up one day. The idea of Pep taking the United job probably just came up in general conversation.First time I have heard this rumour, as we were lining Pep up from Soran and Tkixi coming, and it sort of said as much in that bbc doc, I doubt they ever formally met to do this, maybe informally as managers spoken in hypotheticals about slurs retirement but cannot see the question of will you replace me being ever asked or answered
I know some United fans - long before Pep was announced as our manager - were hanging their hopes on a simple one line comment Pep made when he attended what I think was the CL semi against Schalke at Old Trafford in 2011 - “It’s a nice atmosphere here - I can imagine myself managing here one day” or something like that. However, things change quickly in football and that was probably before Pep was even on our radar as we were still a year away from winning the league under Mancini who was very much in favour with our hierarchy in 2011.