Pep to leave at the end of the season

Gràcies per tot, Pep! Sempre tindrem aquests records.

While I’m sad to see our best ever go, I can’t but reflect on how fortunate I am to have lived in these times. To have seen beautiful football. To have celebrated so many triumphs I’d never expected, from a club I didn’t know I could love so much.

In his decade here, Pep has given us so many gifts. Yes, at the final whistle to his time here, the trophies will get the headlines: the centurions season, the treble, our first CL, 4-in-a-row, etc. But the real loss will be subtler. His way of thinking about football; a way of preparing; a way of winning. I hope we have the good sense to sustain that.

Let’s not be sad it is over. Let’s be happy it happened.
 
mrbelfry said:
Mad to think we will probably never see City have success like the Pepdecade again. Gratetful for all he's done but I don't support City because we always win. Looking forward to many defeats in the future. New stories, new heroes. New goals, new disappointments and new achievements.

I can't think of any manager who's left that I wish had more time. Maybe Steve Coppell ;) so chapeau Pep for all you did. You will always be the best I've ever seen, you redefined what was normal but we werent mates so life goes on.
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A 10 year period with this level of success will never happen again in our lifetime. I know we have a bit of a running joke about things not happening in our lifetimes but what he achieved is genuinely difficult to fully appreciate in the moment, and it's going to be a serious adjustment period for many younger blues who have only known it. His acheivements here and from before are going to age like a fine wine. With every passing year the collection of everything he has accomplished, not just trophies, but all the secondary records; he's going to keep popping up in every chart or table. That PL trophy will always have that huge block of 4 "Manchester City" entries one after the other. New kids will come through, still see his name and ask "Was Pep Guardiola really that good?" and anyone still alive who remembers this period will say "Yep. He really was."
 
Snape said:
Over 50 years as a Blue, and the first three decades were mostly heartbreak, frustration and the particular misery that only City could inflict on you. I was genuinely happy just with what Mancini gave us, that alone felt like more than we deserved.
Then Pep arrived and redefined what was possible.
From 2022 into 2023 I was very poorly. There were long stretches where I couldn't attend games. The football didn't just entertain me it genuinely helped carry me through the worst of it.
So when people talk about Pep's legacy in trophies and records, I understand completely. But for some of us it runs deeper than that. He gave us joy precisely when I particularly needed it most.
Thank you Pep. For everything. Sunday is going to be very emotional.
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When I think back to the full Covid season City playing twice a week really helped me
 
Ahh fuck… well I guess it had to come to an end at some point.

He elevated City to a place I didnt ever envisage as a child.

He’s long teased a tell all book when he retires. Hopefully this brings us a step closer to him expressing his real thoughts on the officiating against us and how the PL have treated us.
 
The only bit if comfort I have been able to take from this is hes having a well deserved break. I have also got the impression he is done at club level.

Does anyone else believe he manages at club level again?
 
We will talk about the 20 trophies in 10 years for a long time as the measure of his success. But equally important are the ones where we came close too, to get the full picture just how good we were under him.

CL Final, 2 FA Cup Finals, and 3 Community Shields. This Year's league. That's within a game of 7 additional trophies.

Plus not to mention the semi-finals, and that spurs handball game what-if the worst of the lot!

We really were a winning machine this decade.
 
The Blue Eh said:
Gràcies per tot, Pep! Sempre tindrem aquests records.

While I’m sad to see our best ever go, I can’t but reflect on how fortunate I am to have lived in these times. To have seen beautiful football. To have celebrated so many triumphs I’d never expected, from a club I didn’t know I could love so much.

In his decade here, Pep has given us so many gifts. Yes, at the final whistle to his time here, the trophies will get the headlines: the centurions season, the treble, our first CL, 4-in-a-row, etc. But the real loss will be subtler. His way of thinking about football; a way of preparing; a way of winning. I hope we have the good sense to sustain that.

Let’s not be sad it is over. Let’s be happy it happened.
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That, my friend, is the perfect epitaph to his magical decade with us.
 
The media leak, the boutnouth game, Pep leaving, the other Pep leaving, goodbyes for bernie and stones.. and now just realised Arsenal have the wee pixel fireworks! What a week

The only thing that might actually cheer me up a touch this weekend is Spurs getting relegated.
 
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bluemoon32 said:
I thought i'd feel a bit better today but i feel gut punched and a bit hollow, if that makes sense.
Fucking hell, i'm going full dipper
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Been the same only got 1 minute through the video at work before I had to stop. Unfortunately its the realisation kicking in, and its bloody shit! Will took a long time for it to settle down as well Id imagine, first game if the season will be difficult.
 
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