He was due to start in January and have a period alongside Txiki.Why?
This was always the case btw, and always made sense.
The guy is a director of football, at a top European club. He is not an apprentice joiner that needs to shadow Txiki for 6 months to learn the basics.
It was one of the daftest claims by ITKs/KFAs for some time.
If both Txiki and Pep leave at the same time it's far from ideal