00:00Hello, Pep. First of all, congratulations on a brilliant career here in the Premier League at Manchester City.
00:07How does it feel to be sat there about to say goodbye to this club?
00:13Yeah, really, really satisfied. I don't know the right words.
00:18Really satisfied, happy and proud and happy in the experience, I would say, maybe of my life.
00:25Otherwise it wouldn't have been 10 years.
00:28So I cannot be more grateful for the amount of love and affection that I had known today, these days,
00:36you know, for many, many years and nothing else.
00:40Why now?
00:42It's the time. It's not wake up, go to sleep one day, wake up in the day after, say now
00:48is the time to live.
00:50It is a process that I felt it for a while and always the club makes me unbelievable for the
00:58fact the decision, the club has to be, of course, ready.
01:00And I felt that, listen, this job is every few days during many, many years and Southwoods Park and Anfield
01:11and Madrid and Madrid and Africa and the...
01:16And now I'll have to see, you know, live my life, at least see what happened.
01:23And 10 years is a lot, a lot of time and I think the club needs, yeah, new manager, new
01:28energy.
01:31With this incredible place that we have right now and, yeah, start to write another chapter.
01:37When was the first moment that you thought about leaving?
01:40No, it's not about when, so it's not, like I say, today or tomorrow.
01:45It's, you know, a time that you feel, okay, let's do it and it's not yesterday what happened, it was
01:52one week ago, it's a little bit, but of course we're in the competition.
01:56I want to be completely, completely, completely away from, because I need the players be with me and me with
02:03them.
02:04And when the moment we cannot fight for anything else, because it's already achieved, so that is a moment to
02:09say, okay, I want to say proper goodbye to my people, you know, on Sunday.
02:14I want to hug them, all of them on the pitch, and that's why we announce them.
02:20Hi, Pep. So what do you want to do next?
02:24No, rest. No, no, no plans to training for a while.
02:28So I need to, otherwise I will be here.
02:31And I need to step back, I will not train for a while.
02:36The club news release said you're going to become a global ambassador for the City Football Group.
02:40What does that mean?
02:42And does that mean you might not be a manager again?
02:45No, when we talk together, I said I want to, I would love to be, continue to be part of
02:51this club.
02:51So, not a manager action, and I will not take absolutely zero decisions on that, it's just, to be part
02:57of the club, if they need me to represent or do something in many, many clubs, that this organization has,
03:07I will be there.
03:09I like still to be, you know, part of this club in a different role, completely different, not in the
03:15daily decisions, not in being in front of the sport lights, always behind the scenes, but I like to be
03:21part of that.
03:23Hi, Pep.
03:24When Jürgen Klopp left, you said, I'm running out of energy.
03:27Is that a similar feeling that you have?
03:29Absolutely.
03:30Absolutely.
03:31I had, I have, I will not have.
03:34It's simple.
03:35I feel I will not have the energy that's required to daily every three days, expectations to fight for the
03:41titles, being in front of the players.
03:44I know myself.
03:45I have that season energy, but I feel I will not have.
03:49It's just, what is the reason?
03:51It's the time.
03:52It's 10 years.
03:53So, the biggest decision to have it happen is because it's a question of, not because I'm not ambition, I
03:59don't want to try it again.
04:01It's just, okay, Pep, after 10 years.
04:05So, I'm seeing it's not good in the organization to have people for many, many years.
04:09It's good to shake, to move, and new faces.
04:11It's really good for everyone.
04:12If I would not believe that, if they don't sack me, I would just stay here.
04:16But I think it's the perfect moment, the perfect time, much better than the last season, for example.
04:22And don't take for granted.
04:24The season has been an exception, fighting against Arsenal.
04:27You know, this team, until the last moment, winning two titles, the three English competitions, win two, and fight every
04:36game, let the team do it.
04:39So, it's really, really good.
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