Pep to leave at the end of the season

Apart from rumour and speculation, there’s (as far as I know) one City hating **** taken a punt on this story who works for a paper that detests us. Was Pep really lying on Saturday, does Emily bishops lad really know more about Pep’s future plans than Pep does?
 
Ban-jani said:
Very true mate, he’s a very good manager but he’s not managed an elite club. He’s done a decent job at a side with limitations and did better than expectations.

Maresca at least gave some stability, for a period of time, to a basket case full of egos, with huge pressure at a big club.

I’ve no idea if he’s going to be a success. I think only Enrique would be a guarantee of that to replace Pep, but he’s going to get the benefit of doubt from me until he proves to me that he’s not right for us.
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Fair fucks mate.
 
Those complaining about Maresca would do well to consider Kompany pre-Bayern.

Burnley played some ok stuff in the Premier League but crashed and burned. Who’d have thought Vinnie would have Bayern flying on the back of that?

Maresca went to Chelsea, inherited a squad that looked like something the hierarchy had thrown together having played Football Manager for a few days, operating under ownership who had no idea what they were doing. He did alright.

He’s been at City, knows the structure and probably knows a lot of the people. I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt for now.
 
Look at it like this.
  • He's done 10 years here, which is more than he spent at Barca and Bayern combined. He is quite possibly the greatest coach in history, definitely in ours, but he wasn't staying for ever.
  • He is our 4th longest serving manager after Les McDowall, Wilf Wild and Ernest Mangnall. It wasn't that long ago we had five managers in one season.
  • He's delivered success beyond our wildest expectations, with only 2 trophyless seasons in those 10.
  • We've been Centurions and done the domestic quadruple, which no other club or their fans have witnessed.
  • We've done the proper treble, involving finally winning the Champions League.
  • We won 4 league titles in a row.
  • We've been to 4 consecutive FA Cup finals, and have been to Wembley so many times that some of us have got quite blasé about it and think "I can't be bothered with another trip there"
  • We were club world champions, and could rightfully sing "Best team in the land and all the world.
  • We've been involved in some epic title races and won them all, apart (probably) from this one (in a season where we've been under par by our high standards).
  • We've seen the most breathtaking football I've seen in over 50 years.
No one can take any of that away from us but who knows what the future, under Maresca and hopefully Vinny, holds. The wagon train will roll on and we should still be very much up there challenging for the major prizes.

There's a line in 'The Boys In Blue' that says "Maybe in another generation, when other lads have come to take our place...". Back in the late 1970's I couldn't imagine anyone talking the place of players like Bell, Tueart, Barnes, Corrigan, Hartford, Booth, etc. I never thought we'd see a generation of players like that. But we've seen legends like Kompany, Lescott, Zaba, Barry, Yaya, Aguero, Tevez, Dzeko, Fernandinho, Rodri, Ederson, the two Silva's, KDB, Walker, Haaland and so many others.

It's just been the most phenomenal experience and we should be eternally thankful for the indelible memories that Pep has given us.
 
Would be very happy if he makes me eat my words but if any of our rivals appointed Maresca I wouldn't be fearing anything from them.

Can only think it's a similar situation with Pellegrini and Pep and he'll be a stop gap until we go for Kompany.
 
Goater101 said:
The biggest news in football leaked by a sponsors. Feels very very un city like and they way we operate.
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Not really when you consider the blunder-laden track record of our comms team. It is share sensitive information for some of our sponsors so they would have to be fully in the loop. But this sort of message should have been a simultaneous email to all the key partners (including fans) at the same time as the official statement.
 
CΛL said:
Gutted that it’s real, still had hope.

Weirdly think Maresca is a good choice despite the disparity in pedigree between him and Pep.

Plays a nice, similar brand of football, knows the club. Imo he did really well winning two trophies with Chelsea despite that club being a shit show, having to contend with 40 players, unhappy faces etc.

The best players at Chelsea, rightly or wrongly hit out at the club after his sacking and I think that says a lot about his leadership.

With our squad and set up, why couldn’t he achieve great things? Better than Arteta, better than Slot I believe.

Plus he’s bald and looks like pep so we might not notice the difference for the first few weeks next season.
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I think that picture of Pep smoking a cigar would need much to look like Maresca.
 
Ban-jani said:
The Chelsea gig he got himself sacked, due to the board interfering with who he could pick based on wages, which any right minded manager would do. He fell out with the circus there and got sacked for what he said, rather than performances.

Iriola has done alright with a well run mid table club. Maresca’s time at Chelsea far more valuable.
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And Enzo has Championship experience ; )
 
argyle said:
Would be very happy if he makes me eat my words but if any of our rivals appointed Maresca I wouldn't be fearing anything from them.

Can only think it's a similar situation with Pellegrini and Pep and he'll be a stop gap until we go for Kompany.
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Pellegrini won the league and cup in his first season, scoring over 100 goals.

If we’ve got another Pellegrini, trophy wise, that’ll fucking do me.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Look at it like this.
  • He's done 10 years here, which is more than he spent at Barca and Bayern combined. He is quite possibly the greatest coach in history, definitely in ours, but he wasn't staying for ever.
  • He is our 4th longest serving manager after Les McDowall, Wilf Wild and Ernest Mangnall. It wasn't that long ago we had five managers in one season.
  • He's delivered success beyond our wildest expectations, with only 2 trophyless seasons in those 10.
  • We've been Centurions and done the domestic quadruple, which no other club or their fans have witnessed.
  • We've done the proper treble, involving finally winning the Champions League.
  • We won 4 league titles in a row.
  • We've been to 4 consecutive FA Cup finals, and have been to Wembley so ,any times that some of us have got quite blasé about it and think "I can't be bothered with another trip there"
  • We were club world champions, and could rightfully sing "Best team in the land and all the world.
  • We've been involved in some epic title races and won them all, apart (probably) from this one (in a season where we've been under par by our high standards).
  • We've seen the most breathtaking football I've seen in over 50 years.
No one can take any of that away from us but who knows what the future, under Maresca and hopefully Vinny, holds. The wagon train will roll on and we should still be very much up there challenging for the major prizes.

There's a line in 'The Boys In Blue' that says "Maybe in another generation, when other lads have come to take our place...". Back in the late 1970's I couldn't imagine anyone talking the place of players like Bell, Tueart, Barnes, Corrigan, Hartford, Booth, etc. I never thought we'd see a generation of players like that. But we've seen legends like Kompany, Lescott, Zaba, Barry, Yaya, Aguero, Tevez, Dzeko, Fernandinho, Rodri, Ederson, the two Silva's, KDB, Walker, Haaland and so many others.

It's just been the most phenomenal experience and we should be eternally thankful for the indelible memories that Pep has given us.
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