Pep to leave Man City

[GodIsADeeJay81]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/58339343.amp

Plans to leave in 2023 when his contract is up, wants to manage a national team.

[Bosscat]

Dyche to City ... (thought I would get it in 1st )

[Conroysleftfoot]

Dyche to City ... (thought I would get it in 1st )

Wonder if he'd have the bottle to swap jobs with Sean.

[Darthlaw]

Pochettino making plans for his 2023 extended holiday..?

Must be the only guaranteed cake walk league Pep hasn't managed in yet

[Quickenthetempo]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/58339343.amp

Plans to leave in 2023 when his contract is up, wants to manage a national team.

Lets hope England can get him.

[kazza]

Would be interesting to see how he'd do with a national side, but I can't see him going anywhere other than the side currently with the best squad of players at that time.

[bfcjg]

Would be interesting to see how he'd do with a national side, but I can't see him going anywhere other than the side currently with the best squad of players at that time.

Perhaps he could manage Malta, they sell citizenship so he could have a team of all stars, you can see it now only Pep could steer the Maltese minnows to glory.

[Stayingup]

Dyche to City ... (thought I would get it in 1st )

Coventry?

[Peter Loo]

Pity he hadn’t left years ago we not have been on the end of so many 0-5 thrashing.

[tiger76]

Let's see if he can manage to lift the CL before he goes, given the dosh he's spent it's poor that City haven't yet won the biggest club prize on offer.

As for his potential successor, I'd say right now Brendan Rodgers would be high on City's list, but a couple of years is a long time in footy, so that could easily change.

Like or loathe Pep it can't be denied he's changed English football, in a similar vein to Arsene Wenger before him, and the PL will miss him if and when he does go.

[Wile E Coyote]

someone said on the radio that this announcement could backfire on city (if its accurate)
without him being there, its hardly a incentive to attract players.
also, it could demotivate the players he already has.
If he has decided, then it would be better if that was kept in house until much nearer the time of his departure.

[RVclaret]

Would love Pep to take over our national team. Definitely got the team and players to suit his style.

[gtclaret]

Would love Pep to take over our national team. Definitely got the team and players to suit his style.

Definitely has, he would pick the system to suit the players at his disposal, not the other way round

[Chester Perry]

this from Pep is the most modern football announcement there is

- just think, he works for the largest club football entity in the world that is effectively controlled by a State, that also has investment partners, such as American Private Equity firm ($500m stake turns out to be an option that has to be taken up by 2030 but the money was booked), Chinese Tech Investment (they actually did pay and are influenced by the Chinese state), Satelite clubs include partnerships with Reliance (India's largest corporation) and Softbank (the Japanese Investment fund that is financed by Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others and had a very close relationship with FIFA and it's president Gianni Infantino for a number of years, it was also the funder for the short lived and soon forgotten FIFA Global league for clubs (anyone remember that $25 billion announcement from Infantino. There are many other such partners including South American billionaires - all part of the Geo Political game that football garnishes - it may be a caviar garnish but it is still a garnish

Pep's announcement came not at a football interview but at a conference for a Brazilian Investment company where he was a guest speaker, one of the other guest speakers was Hilary Clinton