José

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[Manchester City @ManCity]

Born winner 🏆

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 OFFICIAL: James Milner retires from professional football. He has the record for most appearances ever in Premier League.

🏆🏆🏆 Premier League
🏆🏆 FA Cup
🏆🏆 Community Shield
🏆🏆 League Cup
🏆 Champions League

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

You couldn’t teach the type of Hate Watch I’m on today

[Castro1021 @Castro1021]

WHO STILL NEEDS WORLD CUP TICKETS?!?!

[Manchester City @ManCity]

City legends 🩵

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

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.

My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

[Bernardo Silva @BernardoCSilva]

Thank you @ManCity 💙

[مشعل @Dolgador]

- انا هنا . . يا زين هاليوم وهالفرحه وهاللقب 💙

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

💙🇳🇴 Erling Haaland: “I’ve never felt better than now!”.

“To be honest I think with a kid, it makes me even better because I actually disconnect more than ever”.

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

This world desperately needs Jesus Christ.

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

Everyone at work today

[B @utdbrxy]

too many casuals on this app.

[Football Confidential 🌐 @footballconfid1]

Nah… who did this edit 😂😭😭

Dance if your club has won a trophy in the last 5yrs… wait for it…

[Manchester City @ManCity]

Not a bad collection 😮‍💨🏆

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

The night we met Kevin De Bruyne (2015).

The night we said goodbye to Kevin De Bruyne (2025).

[*J*👑 @9jordsss]

WE ARE BACK LIKE WE NEVER FUCKING LEFT😭😭😭 #RawAfterMania

[José @josielopez08]

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[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

Trust in God ❤️🙏

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

PSALM 28:7