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 have been the experience, I would say, maybe of my life.
00:25Otherwise it wouldn't have been 10 years, so I can be more grateful for the amount of love and affection
00:34that I had known today, these days, 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 respect me unbelievable for the
00:58fact, the decision, the club has to be, of course, ready.
01:02And I felt that, listen, this job is every three days during many, many years and Southwoods Park and Anfield
01:11and Madrid and Madrid and FA Cup and the vroom, vroom, vroom.
01:16And I'll have to see, you know, live my life, at least see what happens.
01:23And 10 years is a lot, a lot of time and I think the club needs, yeah, new manager, new
01:28energy with 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, it's a, you know, a time
01:47that you feel, okay, let's, let's do it.
01:50And it's not yesterday what happened, it was one week ago, it's a little bit, but of course we're in
01:55the 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.
02:11I want to say proper goodbye to my people, you know, on Sunday.
02:14I want to hug them, all of them on the pitch.
02:17And that's why we announced them.
02:21Hi, Pep.
02:22So what do you want to do next?
02:24No, I'll rest.
02:25No, 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.
02:34I will not train for a while.
02:36The club news release said you're going to become a global ambassador for the city football.
02:40What does that mean?
02:42And does that mean you might not be a manager again?
02:45No, when we talked together, I said I want to, I would love to be, continue to be part of
02:51this club.
02:52So not a manager action.
02:53And I will not take absolutely zero decisions and that.
02:56It's just to be part of club.
02:58If they need me to represent or do something in many, many clubs that this organisation has, I will be
03:08there.
03:09I like still to be, you know, part of this club in a different role, completely different.
03:14Not in the daily decisions, not in being in front of the sport lights, always behind the scenes.
03:20But I like to be part 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 would not have.
03:34It's simple.
03:35I feel I would not have the energy that's required to daily every three days, expectations to fight for the
03:41titles with being in front of the players.
03:44I know myself.
03:45I have that season energy, but I feel I would 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 saying it's not good in the organization.
04:07I 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 suck me, I would 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 that season had 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 that's really, really good.
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