Pep's contract situation | 2 year extension confirmed! (pg1817)

You're spot on - the notion that we improved after it was announced Pellegrino was to be replaced by Pep in the close season is simply bollocks
Pellegrino!
Didn't a certain manager cause a bit of controversy when he called him that?
 
Not necessarily. He started out in 2016 with a three-year deal, and the fact that he's previously signed several extensions didn't mean he left when they were due to expire. He'll leave when he feels he needs a break or a change of scenery, or when he thinks the players are no longer responding to his methods. Personally, I'd like to think he'll at least celebrate a decade with us - and maybe even stay a year or two beyond that, but you never know until it happens.

Exactly. He's stayed longer than most expected and there is not a better club out there for him. Quite clearly he has a family situation that may dicate when he leaves more than football matters will.

I do wonder if he will end his club management career at City and take a break and them try his hand with an international team.
 
I do wonder if he will end his club management career at City and take a break and them try his hand with an international team.
He might want to have a go at that. I suspect that it might not work out that brilliantly as I think his methods take a substantial amount of time for players to get into. You don't have that as a national coach.
 
I was 30 years of age when we got that letter from the club to announce he was coming. By the time he leaves I'll nearly be 40.

Takes some sinking in that.
 
I was 30 years of age when we got that letter from the club to announce he was coming. By the time he leaves I'll nearly be 40.

Takes some sinking in that.
Weirder for the younger lads. There will be some that will have had their whole adolescence under Pep. First kiss, first drink, first shag, first smoke, all of high school and college and uni. Mad innit.

I was born in 1986, so needless to say my formative years were a lot more painful being a City fan. Imagine what they'll tell their kids what being a blue as a teenager when Pep was here was like.
 
Weirder for the younger lads. There will be some that will have had their whole adolescence under Pep. First kiss, first drink, first shag, first smoke, all of high school and college and uni. Mad innit.

I was born in 1986, so needless to say my formative years were a lot more painful being a City fan. Imagine what they'll tell their kids what being a blue as a teenager when Pep was here was like.
My nephew is 16, brought him to Wembley as a rugrat for the Wigan final and he bawled his eyes out all the way home
Fair to say he has had a fucking amazing time being a blue ever since that day
 
He might want to have a go at that. I suspect that it might not work out that brilliantly as I think his methods take a substantial amount of time for players to get into. You don't have that as a national coach.
Only team he could slot into is Spain (or England when full of city academy players). He won't do Spain I guessing
 
My nephew is 16, brought him to Wembley as a rugrat for the Wigan final and he bawled his eyes out all the way home
Fair to say he has had a fucking amazing time being a blue ever since that day

Good stuff. Give them the hard stuff first. Keeps them grounded.
(And actually, being beaten at Wembley's not really hard, for those of us who thought we'd never go near the place ever again).
 

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