The final day of the 25/26 EPL season will see City face Aston Villa in a game where the outcome doesn’t matter.
City have sealed their placed at the 2nd spot in the table and Unai Emery’s side are probably too high to care about this fixture after their Europa League triumph on Wednesday.
While the result won’t matter, it will certainly be an emotional sight for every Manchester City faithful as they bid adieu to Pep Guardiola.
After a decade of service at the blue half of Manchester, Pep Guardiola will be giving one last dressing room talk this weekend as he ends his highly successful stint as a City manager.
A stint that saw Man City dominate English football, winning no less than 17 major trophies, including a treble in the 2022-23 season.
If the highly emotional farewell video Pep Guardiola scripted himself wasn’t enough of a confirmation, pictures of furniture being shifted out of his Manchester-based apartment have done the job.
It appears the Spaniard has used the services of Premier Relocation, a VIP relocation service company, to take goods out of his home in Deansgate CitySuites in central Manchester.
Pep Guardiola has started the process of moving out of his Manchester city centre apartment, with removal men seen taking belongings away today.
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While his belongings are being packed and taken away, many are wondering what is the destination they are being forwarded to.
One guess is Santpedor, a small town just an hour’s drive from Barcelona, where the Spaniard was born and brought up.
Pep revealed to Sky Sports that one of his regrets during his time at City was the lack of time he spent his family, especially with his father Valenti who reportedly lives in Santpedor.
“There are things that I have not done that I want to do. Still I have my father alive, the last years I want to spend more time with him. My kids… And a lot of things as a human being I can do. I’m fortunate I can decide, that’s why I took the decision.
Though there are speculations of him returning to Barcelona, Santpedor might not be the place, instead he might move to Pedralbes, one of the wealthiest and most private neighbourhood’s in the available in the city of Barcelona.
It was reported last year that Pep has a sea view £13.5m property purchase lined up in the locality, just a stones throw away from his marital home in the city where he used to live with his estranged wife Cristina Serra.
Pep Guardiola has often been accused of being too obsessed with football and reports even suggested that it played a part in his split with wife Cristina Serra. However, this move many believe suggest a possible romantic reunion as well.
But some claim that Guardiola moving back to Catalonia, is only a matter of taking a short break and he will return to England to take the Three Lions job in the near future.
At least for now we have to wait and see before Pep reveals his next chapter in his glorious managerial book.
