00:00Twenty trophies, a stand named after you, a statue.
00:03When you first got the call from City ten years ago,
00:06did you believe that that level of domination in this country was possible?
00:11No, absolutely not.
00:14I've been so good, so everything was unexpected.
00:17I could not expect ten years.
00:18I could not expect the incredible people I met here.
00:21Many good things, so I could not expect.
00:24The numbers are the numbers.
00:25It's obviously the titles, the numbers, the records, everything is there,
00:28but today is not day to talk.
00:30I don't think about that to make me feel, hmm,
00:33this amount of connections that I had in this club for many, many reasons,
00:39and live experiences and memories that I had.
00:43I didn't expect to be as much long.
00:45I think ten years is a lot of time, a lot of time being in one club,
00:49and I think it had because we pushed each other.
00:52The energy was good and back and forth, not always in one direction,
00:55and that helped me stay.
00:56They supported me unbelievably, so that's why we stayed.
01:00I had incredible players that it's impossible to make some little conflict,
01:06but it was really, really little conflicts because I have to push.
01:09They don't be pushed.
01:10Good days, bad days, everyone has that in our jobs.
01:13But in general, you know, I know perfectly how they think about what I think about them.
01:24So all the players have been top, and the staff have been good, really good.
01:31Pep, you've had a huge influence on English football in the last ten years,
01:36but obviously English football has also had a huge impact on you.
01:42When you've had this sort of long rest, could you ever envisage a few years from now taking a call
01:49to manage England,
01:51and would that be something you would be interested in in the future, whenever that is?
01:56I don't have any absolute plan about my future, except to rest and go to recover my time that I
02:05miss with my kids,
02:06even when they grow, and many things I've not done I want to do.
02:11So I don't think for one second thinking about anything about related football for the next time, for the next
02:16years.
02:17I don't think about it.
02:19I need to rest, I need to reflect, I need to see what happened in my 70, 80 years,
02:24in my time in Barcelona and Germany and here, and after we see what happens.
02:30I don't have plans, it's just to rest and do a lot of things I want to do.
02:32I didn't do in the past stupid things, but I want to do, and yeah, that's all.
02:38So that's not a no?
02:39Sorry?
02:40That's not a no.
02:41Yeah.
02:46Hi, Pep.
02:47You just mentioned you wanted to do stupid things.
02:50What sort of stupid things would you want to do?
02:53Nobody cares.
02:58I will miss you so much.
03:00So much I miss you.
03:02More than 1,100 press conference, no?
03:06I imagine.
03:08Too much, too many, too many.
03:11Over the last 18 months there's obviously been quite a lot of change in the squad.
03:17And when a manager's been at a club for so long, there can be difficulties in a sort of future
03:23-proofing
03:24and all the change that goes with that.
03:25How pleased are you that you've been able to oversee this change among the playing squad?
03:31The players behave incredibly.
03:33And I promise you, if I have energy, I will be here with them.
03:37I feel that we can be there and make life uncomfortable for our opponents.
03:45I think the good is a good place.
03:47But as I said, in football, what you can visualize, it's going to happen because it's good now.
03:56Don't trust too much.
03:58So, because tomorrow can be what's going on, what's happened.
04:03Always it was one of my focus.
04:05Never when it's going well, I always say, be careful, Pep, be careful.
04:08You have to continue.
04:09You have to develop the team.
04:11You have to, in this industry, you can do better.
04:14Because I'm pretty sure with these players, with the new manager, with the staff, with everyone there, they will do
04:23the job that requires you to continue to be there.
04:26Because the success, as I said many times, is being there until the end.
04:28That is a real success.
04:30If you leave the trophies, yes, of course, you have to do that again.
04:34It's the final product.
04:35But being there, the last fixtures in May, being in the competitions.
04:40Except Champions League this season, we have been there, so that's why it's really good.
04:45Have the club asked you for any kind of advice on how they move forward?
04:51Advice?
04:52No.
04:53It doesn't work, the copy-paste, in this kind of job.
04:57No, no.
04:57You have to be unique, natural yourself, and the new manager will be himself.
05:06The moment it starts to be a copy for another one, everyone is everyone, and it has to be like
05:14that.
05:14And that's why everything is going to be good.
05:21Pep, the fans have obviously loved your football.
05:23They also loved how passionately you've spoken up to defend the club with these Premier League charges that have been
05:30going on forever.
05:32Is that one press conference you might come back for in the future and have something to say on?
05:37In press conference, come back for the future?
05:38Yeah.
05:39To talk about what?
05:40Once the charges are finally over.
05:42If you find me, yeah.
05:45But it will be difficult.
05:47But just sort of what made you feel so passionate about defending the club?
05:56Because I trust them.
05:59I trust them.
06:01Because I spoke with them and I trust how they behave and how they did.
06:08So what happened, what happened, that there will be the resolution.
06:12Nobody of the staff, the staff, mainly of the players and managers, was here.
06:17So it was a long, long time ago.
06:20And I trust them.
06:22I said before what happened and I said no.
06:27I've got time for three more please guys.
06:29Hi Pat.
06:31Over the years you've achieved so much at this club.
06:34And we've seen kind of previously title winners quite often drop off the next season.
06:38You've spoken about the amount of energy that it's taken to keep going.
06:43But how have you been motivated over the last ten years to just keep going and going and going?
06:48I like to be here so many times.
06:49I love to wake up, take my car and come here and see if you imagine the game, the way
06:54we can beat the opponents.
06:55I like it.
06:57Even with a lot of titles, there's a lot of titles we won in all the process.
07:02If I wouldn't have fun, I wouldn't have been here so ten years.
07:06Everything is about how you have fun doing when you lose.
07:11You are more sad, you are disappointed, but in three days you have another one.
07:16No circuit.
07:16In the moment I feel that it's a little more fatigue and everything is not so pleasant like that.
07:22You have to leave.
07:23You have to make a step.
07:23But it's a natural moment.
07:25It's not reason.
07:25No one person, no one decision.
07:27No more.
07:28It's a question of time.
07:30The reason why I've been ten years.
07:32Ten years is a lot of time.
07:33It's no more than that.
07:34And I think to be there all the time, I have to have energy.
07:38The heart I have, but I won't have.
07:40And it's simple.
07:42It's the same I said to my players.
07:43And I think deeply that the team, the club, needs to refresh another step.
07:51And that is the reason why.
07:53And I'm so glad and respectful that the club respect me from day one until now, that decision.
08:00Hi Pep.
08:01How would you like the fans and the players, people you've directly interacted with, how
08:05would you like them to remember you at City?
08:08To me?
08:08Yeah.
08:09How would you like them to remember you?
08:10Myself.
08:11Whatever they want.
08:13Whatever they want.
08:16I don't know.
08:17Whatever they want.
08:20And how are you expecting to handle Sunday emotionally?
08:23What sort of day will it be for you emotionally?
08:25Well, as me after press conference, I guess we're not busy.
08:28So, I got a lot of love.
08:33So, yeah.
08:34I think we're not busy to see my family there and the people.
08:38But hopefully we can enjoy.
08:40I congratulate Aston Villa for the big guys again.
08:42You and I.
08:43It's an incredible achievement for the Europa League.
08:45I enjoy with them and try to make a good game.
08:48And another thing I enjoy a lot is the fact that I can do it with, of course, Xavi, Mancissi,
08:53but doing with John and Bernie, being alongside to them, the last game is so special for me.
08:59So special.
09:01So we could be better two players living together like them.
09:06It had been many, many years, had been on and off the pitch and exceptional servants.
09:10So people and I represent this club, both of them, on and off the pitch like a truly gentleman.
09:17So I'm so happy that all three.
09:21And I think Eddie is coming back again.
09:23Eddie was the keeper for this period.
09:26He could not say bye to our fans because sometimes in summertime it's happened, unfortunately.
09:31And I'm happy that's coming back.
09:33Gundo again.
09:34So, yeah, it's really good.
09:35I'm looking forward and hopefully we can...
09:39I saw the weather, it's perfect on Sunday.
09:43So we'll be...
09:44Hopefully we can enjoy because all of us, all of us, the fans and ourselves,
09:48we deserve to spend a good time together.
09:52You won't miss the Manchester rain then, I take it, Pam?
09:54Sorry?
09:54You won't miss the Manchester rain?
09:56A little bit.
09:57I will miss Manchester, don't take granted, but I will be in a better place in that terms.
10:05Yeah.
10:05At some point the club are going to appoint another manager.
10:08What would your message to them be?
10:10What is the job that they're going to do?
10:12Be themselves.
10:14The manager has to be himself.
10:16The manager has to be himself.
10:17Unique.
10:19And the club will be there to support him unconditionally.
10:22Like they have done to me, we will do it to him and his staff.
10:27Whenever you've been linked with a return to Barcelona in the past,
10:30you've always said to us, I would never go back.
10:33Will you say the same about Manchester City if the question ever came to you?
10:36Will you ask me that question?
10:38I don't know, somebody might.
10:40Somebody might ask you.
10:41Which newspaper do you work on?
10:43The dangerous one?
10:48For a while, for a while, for a while I will not be manager.
10:52That is only I think.
10:54Otherwise I will be here, still here.
10:55I need to...
10:57I deserve, honestly, to take a break.
11:01Great.
11:02Thank you, everyone.
11:03Thank you, guys.
11:05See you on Sunday, no?
11:07See you on Sunday.
11:10See you on Sunday.
11:11See you on Sunday.
11:12Don't clap.
11:12Clap on Sunday.
11:15We've got a holiday.
11:18Sorry.
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