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Dear football,
Today, I want to share with you that this season will be my last as a professional footballer. After so many years living my dream, I feel it’s time to start a new chapter in my life.
Being honest, even though I have been preparing myself for this moment, I found it hard to write this letter. After 20 seasons , many people have played an important role in my career.
When I first kicked a ball as a child in Pamplona with my schoolmates, I never imagined the amazing journey ahead. I’m grateful for every moment: the wins, the tough losses, the challenges, and most of all, the people I’ve met and the friendships I’ve made along the way.
To my teammates, coaches, and every staff member at all the clubs I’ve been lucky to be part of, thank you for helping me grow as a person and a player every day. Wearing the shirts of CA Osasuna, Olympique Marseille, Chelsea FC, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla FC, and representing my country at the biggest stages has been a true privilege. Every moment has meant so much to me…
So fast ⏩... This club just know what they want and always head for it, reminds me of the Roman Abramovich era of Chelsea... Have the feeling, he will be another pep over there ...
🚨🔵 BREAKING: Enzo Maresca has a total verbal agreement with Manchester City, HERE WE GO!
The Italian manager has always been considered the ideal candidate to replace Pep Guardiola.
Deal in place and Maresca will sign an initial three year deal at #MCFC. 🇮🇹
New era, soon.
On Saturday Pep Guardiola lifted the FA Cup at Wembley. A journalist asked him directly if he was leaving Manchester City. He looked into the camera and said "No way. No way. I have one year left on my contract.
Four days later, it was announced that he would be leaving.
Do not read that as deception. Read it as a man who loved something so much he could not bring himself to say goodbye out loud. Not in that moment. Not with the trophy still in his hands and the confetti still falling.
That is the most human thing about this story.
Pep Guardiola arrived at Manchester City in July 2016 with a reputation already built at Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
10 years after, he is leaving as something English football had never seen. Six Premier League titles. Four of them consecutive, the first time any club had achieved that in the league's history.
He won Twenty trophies in ten years- including the Champions League that the club had spent its entire existence chasing. He did not just win things. He changed what winning looked like.
But football is brutal and cyclical and completely indifferent to greatness. Sir Alex Ferguson stepped away after 27 years and United have not been the same since. Arsène Wenger gave Arsenal 22 years and left a void that took a decade to fill. Jürgen Klopp said farewell to Liverpool with tears on the touchline and the whole sport stopped to watch.
Now it is Pep's turn to walk away. And it will hurt in ways City fans are not fully prepared for yet.
Enzo Maresca is expected to succeed him, a former assistant who knows the DNA of the club. That offers continuity. It does not offer replacement. Of course, you cannot replace a man who redefined a sport. You can only try to honour what he built and hope the foundation holds.
King Pep is not just leaving the throne. He is leaving a city, a club and a fanbase that built an entire identity around what he created.
Some goodbyes in football are clean. This one will not be.
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Next season Michael Carrick, Xabi Alonso, Mikel Arteta, and Frank Lampard will all be managing in the Premier League. Three of them at Big 6 clubs too. We’ve almost watched a complete cycle in real time.
These were the midfielders we grew up watching dictate games, control tempo, captain sides, win titles, play in Champions League finals and now they’re the ones standing on the touchline building the next era. Football really moves fast. One minute they’re competing against each other on the pitch, now they’re competing philosophically as coaches.
Despite coming from similar footballing generations. Carrick leans towards calm positional football and control, Alonso feels like a blend of Spanish structure with modern flexibility, Arteta is almost obsessive with automatisms and spacing, while Lampard has always been more direct and emotionally driven in his approach.
It’s the natural evolution of football. The generation that learned under managers like Sir Alex Ferguson, Carlo Ancelotti, José Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Arsène Wenger are now becoming the managers themselves. And now a whole new generation of players will grow up seeing them as coaches first, not even remembering how good they were as players.
- Tolu stole N5,000 from her parents but she couldn’t just start spending it freely in school without teachers or classmates asking where she got the money from.
- So, on her way to school she bought pens and started selling them to her classmates.
- Now, the money appears legitimate because everyone believes Tolu is making money from selling pens. She can now buy food and snacks without suspicion.
🚨🔵 Xabi Alonso signed his contract earlier today at Chelsea, everything completed. ✍🏼
The agreement until June 2030 is done, sealed and will be announced in the next hours.
Xabi’s contract to run from July 1st but set to start working immediately also on transfers.
Omo! A whole Flavor of Africa!that a whole of next year might be wholely booked by now jealous of chike...Haa People go just open mouth waaa, i know blame una sha, na all this cheap data cause am
The reason Flavour spoke against Chike sleeping with Frank Edoho’s wife isn’t because he’s morally upright. He might just be jealous that Chike has been bagging more Igbo billionaire wedding gigs than him, and he probably wishes Chike gets cancelled 🤣
Alexx Ekubo was a great guy. During the Afamefuna movie shoot in Lagos, where we handled the cultural direction, Alexx displayed top professionalism throughout the project. He was always punctual to call time.
On the last day of his role, he dashed everyone on set ₦50k each. I (Admin) asked him why he did it, and he said, “Ụwa abụrọ be anyi.”
Kachifo Alexx 🙏🩶