Pep Guardiola confirmed he will leave Manchester City this summer, saying he simply knows it is “his time” to depart and reflecting on the relationship he has built with the club and the city.<\/p>\n
He recalled the early days: “When I arrived, my first interview was with Noel Gallagher. I walked out thinking, \u2018O.K., Noel is here? This will be fun,\u2019” and spoke of the bond formed over more than a decade. He asked not for explanations: “Don\u2019t ask me the reasons I\u2019m leaving. There is no reason, but deep inside, I know it\u2019s my time. Nothing is eternal, if it was, I would be here. Eternal will be the feeling, the people, the memories, the love I have for my Manchester City .”<\/p>\n
Guardiola framed his decision in terms of work and community, praising the city\u2019s industrial roots and the determination he felt in supporters and staff. “We worked. We suffered. We fought. And we did things our own way. Our way.” He referenced testing moments that shaped the club and the city, including trips away and shared hardship, and singled out the response to the Manchester Arena attack as an example of the city\u2019s values: “Not anger. Not fear. Just love. Community. Togetherness. A city united.”<\/p>\n
He also spoke of private loss and public support: “Remember, losing my mum during COVID and feeling this club carry me through it. The fans, the staff, the people of Manchester, you gave me strength when I needed it most. Cris, my kids, my whole family, you were there as always. Khaldoon, you were there too.”<\/p>\n
To supporters he offered thanks: “Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for trusting me. Thank you for pushing me. Thank you for loving me.” He closed with a light note and gratitude: “It has been so f—— fun. Love you all.”<\/p>\n
Before he arrived at City, Guardiola had already built an exceptional record: a three-time La Liga champion with Barcelona, a three-time Bundesliga winner with Bayern Munich and, at the time of his arrival at City, a two-time European champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He says ‘it’s my time’ to leave Manchester City and thanks the city, the fans and the staff. Eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,969],"tags":[1505,1081,1162],"class_list":["post-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","tag-accountability","tag-adaptation","tag-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}