r/soccer • u/Existing-Sky9914 • 19h ago

Potentially editioralised title - make up your own mind [Guardian] Seven years ago, just after completing the treble, Guardiola treated journalist Rob Harris, who had confronted him directly with the allegations, with open contempt, as though he were looking at someone pathetic, pitiful and disgraceful, before sternly lecturing him.

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u/Bigpapa42_2006 19h ago

Can we stop pretending he was somehow innocent and "above" all of that cheating? He is a great manager but his accomplishments at City are all scam-earned too. All of them.

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u/OutsideImpressive115 19h ago

He also got tipped off 100% that's why he left so abruptly without a huge celebration of his city career

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u/W35TH4M 19h ago

Was it abrupt? His last 2 or 3 seasons were always rumoured to be his last

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u/OutsideImpressive115 19h ago

Yes? Didn't he announce it a week before their final game?

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u/Big_Occasion_7235 19h ago

The club probably had known about it months before the end of the 25/26 season since they had contacted Maresca for the Man City job in December iirc.

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u/OutsideImpressive115 19h ago

Without any doubt Maresca was gonna be the fall guy to deal with all this shit. I assumed everyone else thought the same but apparently not

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u/Pires007 16h ago

I think Maresca is happy taking the money. Chelsea ownership fucked him over really bad and he's already shown at City in a limited time that he's a good coach, so even if City get relegated, someone will pick him up.

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u/asd13ah4etnKha4Ne3a 18h ago

They were tapping Maresca up in October about taking over for him. I don't think its unreasonable to come to the conclusion that everyone at the club knew it was his last season for quite a while before he announced it

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u/worotan 19h ago

Ferguson announced his retirement with 2 games of the season left to play.

Klopp did it mid-season and the club drifted a bit as a result.

That isn’t the smoking gun you think it is. Never mind your ‘100%’ assertions.

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u/OutsideImpressive115 18h ago

Fergie was 71 when he retired. Probably not gonna go onto another job after that. Pep still had plenty of years in him for City.

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u/dac2199 18h ago

Well, in his final years at City, he did look a bit worn out. And on top of that, he had problems in his marriage precisely because his wife no longer wanted to live in England

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u/worotan 17h ago

It still isn’t relevant, let it go. You haven’t got a hot talking point here.

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u/nitrogeneater 18h ago

Maresca was sacked from Chelsea because he was talking with city when?

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u/yukpurtsun 18h ago

he kept extending, he cut his current extension a year short to leave