Pep to leave at the end of the season

svennis pennis said:
With you on this but my word is this hitting hard.

Pep has given us things we never even dreamt about and done it constantly.

The fear is that we never see anything like it again in our lifetimes right? So we do what we’ve always done and support the club and the guys that wear the shirt but it’s going to take some getting used to accepting the future.
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We will never see it again, even if Pep stays, City have to move on, and we will, life after Pep is still blue
 
CC1 said:
I think he left Chelsea because he wasn’t allowed to manage. Chelsea owners have always been the “managers” and they wouldn’t loosen the reins. That’s why they looked “uncoached”
Hence Alonso insisting that he’d only take the job if he was MANAGER - not head coach

Maresco managed to win trophies but couldn’t put up with their attitude.
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They won a weird friendly summer tournament and a European competition where they had outspent the entire rest of the field combined. I dunno. Guess Ill wait and see!
 
madloaf said:
When I watched them, I didn't see that much of a Plan A but a Chelsea fan would obviously know a lot more. I'm hoping we don't find out who was right but the odds say otherwise.
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I genuinely trust his judgement. He talks well about us too and seems to know his stuff about how we play and who’s in form etc.

He had them top 4, winning minor trophies and even had a 3-4 month stint as the best side in the country last year.

Considering the circus and those either side of him, what his players at Chelsea said about him, he’s a lot better than being given credit for on here.
 
footballmanager said:
Maresca knows very well how we play and the locker room and stuff, you got to give him some time and benefit of the doubt. I think he will make the obvious adjustment that is more direct balls to Haaland.

Pep will ride into the sunset coaching a national team if he has the chance at a good one
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Brazil.. if it is an international job..

Though I wouldn't rule out a barca return for pep..
His wife family ect..

He's a maniac and with the rat mo going back to madrid...


Stranger things have happened..
 
ashleycaulcott1 said:
Yeah but he has also one of the worst win % of any

problem is we have been utterly spoilt and for some myself included knowing it wont be quite the same again is hard to adapt to again.
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Why Manchester City will still be here. Let's celebrate Pep and don't feel sad
 
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 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.
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Really well put.
 
surprisedbygrass said:
If this is true
I'm one disappointed Blue .
Boo hoo boo hoo.
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Must be true, I've always said in situations like this that all the club and/or person involved need to do is come out and say it's not true. The fact that City are not denying it, they're only saying (according to Sky) that he's still under contract until the end of next season suggests to me that it has to be true.
 
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