Indeed, but it's being reported by everyone as a fact, I get the impression they've had it directly confirmed.
Man City have been after Pep since he left Barca, and now that he is leaving Bayern and has admitted he wants to manage in England, and the fact Pellegrini looked to be heading out the door at the end of the season regardless, it isn't a massive surprise. Hunter. Manchester Hunter.
This is old news. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/26/pep-guardiola-bayern-munich-manchester-city
It would be more of a shock to see him still in the job come august than not. Pep has been nailed on for weeks.
Since when have we had pet nicknames for foreign managers who haven't even managed in England? It's ****ing nauseating. ****ing Pep.
Now I see Tickles uses it I'm never touching it again. And Hat, every ****er calls him Pep. I notice you ignored OLM's post in that multiquote
His name is Josep Guardiola. Anyone with half a smidgen of dignity would call him Guardiola until he has earned the right in England to be known by a nickname. Pep is what football hipsters and the like would say. The sort of ****s that claim they're Faroe Islands number 1 fan and that we should sign Mustafa Krap from the Kazakh third division.
I actually had no one in mind when I said that. It's just the kind of nation a football hipster would 'support' after getting a souvenir from a third cousin whom once visited there for a week.
