Before I joined the club, Pep was already an inspiration for me. To become his player and after 9 years end up being the one with most games played under him is truly an honour. He arrived at Man City, and the Premier League couldn’t be dominated playing his way… Well, they were wrong. Not only he dominated, he changed the game in England as he did in other countries before. The hunger and ambition to want more and more even after winning and winning again was a big inspiration. For me personally, he was and will always be my father of football. A lot of the things that many managers in the past thought were weaknesses of my game, he saw it as strengths and understood me from day one. On a personal level, the kindness, trust and respect that we had for each other makes me the proudest and goes beyond football. I couldn’t be more grateful for what he did for me and my family. Thank you for all the memories and experiences to the greatest manager ever Pep Guardiola! 😄
Bunny Shaw's 25/26 Season:
▪️#BarclaysWSL Winner
▪️#BarclaysWSL Golden Boot
▪️#BarclaysWSL Player of the Season
▪️#ManCity Player of the Season
▪️FWA Player of the Year
▪️The Athletic Player of the Season
Best striker in the world. ⭐️🐰
Ilkay Gundogan: "We were joking around a little, with my wife as well as with people in #ManCity [about me coming back as a coach]. Of course, there's a chance.
"Obviously, it depends a little on my decisions, my drive, in terms of how I want to evolve after finishing or pursuing my active career. I feel I have still a couple of really good years. I'd like to play a little more because I'm still enjoying it.
"But obviously long-term, everyone knows it's not a secret I started doing my coaching badges and tried to see in which kind of direction I'd like to go after my career. There's definitely potential, 100%. I mean, @ManCity has given me as a player everything I wanted. So why not try it also in a different role?" [via @spbajko]
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Three unforgettable seasons together.
From the first day I arrived, I have learnt so much from you all, on the pitch, in training, in the dressing room and I’m grateful to have shared the biggest moments with you.
Thank you for the memories, the lessons, the trophies and the moments we celebrated together. Grateful to have experienced it with true legends! 🙏🏾
Pep Guardiola’s daughter Maria, on Instagram:
“papi ♥️
We blinked and it’s been 10 years. 10 seasons. Hundreds of away games, trips to Wembley, too many Bernabeu nights, and millions of memories.
Football was never just a sport. It decided where we lived, how often we moved, the languages we learned, the friends we made and the emotions we felt.
From as long as I can remember it was football stadiums. Moving to Doha, Mexico, Rome, Brescia, Barcelona, New York, Munich and Manchester.
Thank you for giving us a childhood built around sport, something so rare and special.
We moved again, for the 8th time in 14 years. Manchester is very hard to put into words. You changed the most respected league in the world. You achieved things and broke records that may never be repeated. And we got to experience all of it from the closest seat possible.
The happiest and saddest tears came from football, because watching you live every second so intensely made us feel everything with you. Those 90 minutes where the world feels like it stops.
We think people forget quickly because football moves fast and a new season always starts. But as time passes, we’ll realise just how impossible those numbers really are. 41 trophies in 16 years.
Years from now people will talk about football and try to explain what this era felt like, they’ll talk about your teams, the way they made people feel. Because beyond the trophies, you gave us memories we escaped real life for.
It has been a privilege to watch and support you for almost 25 years. Thank you for always bringing us close to everything, for including us in it all. The biggest privilege has been to live it all beside you.
As citizens, football fans and rivals we will miss seeing you on our screens every week. Because without realising it there is a final match, a final whistle. And none of us are ever really ready for that moment.
Thank you papi and mami, the beautiful things in our lives always trace back to this game.
For the world these were historic football moments, for us they were family memories, and I don’t think any of us realised while living it, that we were inside football history.
And that stays long after the final whistle ♥️”
John Stones on #ManCity fans: “I think the love’s mutual. I never could've dreamed of having the love and the support.
"As a kid, you imagine things and aspire to do things in the garden or on the field, wherever. You sing players’ names that you love, try and be like them. And I never could've dreamed of having my name sung or the love I’ve had from wherever I’ve been in the world, whatever stadium. It’s so special. I’m so, grateful - that trust and understanding, especially in the earlier years when we’re building something, a new dynamic, new style and I feel it’s one-of-a-kind connection. It’ll be missed.
“I’ll miss it a lot and I just want to say to everyone, what more can I say but thank you and I’ll cherish the moments forever..." [via @ManCity]