One of the biggest news on the national team break that has just kicked in is an inside scoop story - https://x.com/David_Ornstein/status/1843695366442758546 by David Ornstein, telling in detail about the departure of Txiki Begiristain from his position of Manchester City sporting director.

Yes, that same Txiki who arrived at the club in 2012 to turn it upside down. Facing him, City was an absurd fat cat, and then under him, it started to get structure, clarity, and stability.

It was Txiki that started preparing the club for the invitation of Pep Guardiola-it had to go from the somewhat archaic Mancini team to what Pep is building. The intermediate stage was Manuel Pellegrini, who brought the brightest title in 2014 and made City's game much more subtle than it was before.

It was Txiki's team that allowed Pep, a comfort lover, to survive the debut season in England in peace, which turned out to be objectively unsuccessful - according to his standards - when there was 4:2 in Leicester, 4:0 at Goodison Park and other delights of rainy British hit-and-run, which the Catalan was not up to.

But instead of pressure, full support, and 300 million for transfers, almost every one of which instantly made City, if not the strongest team in the world, then certainly the most stable of all the strongest.

Pep moved from Barcelona, ​​the club of his whole life, because the new management wasn't as comfortable as Laporta's team which included Txiki. Oh, and he was fed up with the war with Jose Mourinho, yes. Incidentally, it is interesting that the escalating war with Arsenal fits into this framework. But that's just poetry.

He needs to work with people he fully trusts, who will protect him from every aspect. If that happens, Pep gives 100%. About Barcelona, Dani Alves said in a documentary: "Pep is a man I would die for, but in the 2011/12 season he was not the man I would do it for." Guardiola's contract is up in summer 2025, already the Etihad are begging him to stay. But his friend, ally and main shield is leaving the club. It is now seemingly a whole new beginning for English football. Will Arsenal take over? Or Liverpool will regain the title? Or City will still hold on because of their money? But it seems that the last five years will not be like this.

One of the biggest news on the national team break that has just kicked in is an inside scoop story - https://x.com/David_Ornstein/status/1843695366442758546 by David Ornstein, telling in detail about the departure of Txiki Begiristain from his position of Manchester City sporting director.

Yes, that same Txiki who arrived at the club in 2012 to turn it upside down. Facing him, City was an absurd fat cat, and then under him, it started to get structure, clarity, and stability.

It was Txiki that started preparing the club for the invitation of Pep Guardiola-it had to go from the somewhat archaic Mancini team to what Pep is building. The intermediate stage was Manuel Pellegrini, who brought the brightest title in 2014 and made City's game much more subtle than it was before.

It was Txiki's team that allowed Pep, a comfort lover, to survive the debut season in England in peace, which turned out to be objectively unsuccessful - according to his standards - when there was 4:2 in Leicester, 4:0 at Goodison Park and other delights of rainy British hit-and-run, which the Catalan was not up to.

But instead of pressure, full support, and 300 million for transfers, almost every one of which instantly made City, if not the strongest team in the world, then certainly the most stable of all the strongest.

Pep moved from Barcelona, ​​the club of his whole life, because the new management wasn't as comfortable as Laporta's team which included Txiki. Oh, and he was fed up with the war with Jose Mourinho, yes. Incidentally, it is interesting that the escalating war with Arsenal fits into this framework. But that's just poetry.

He needs to work with people he fully trusts, who will protect him from every aspect. If that happens, Pep gives 100%. About Barcelona, Dani Alves said in a documentary: "Pep is a man I would die for, but in the 2011/12 season he was not the man I would do it for." Guardiola's contract is up in summer 2025, already the Etihad are begging him to stay. But his friend, ally and main shield is leaving the club. It is now seemingly a whole new beginning for English football. Will Arsenal take over? Or Liverpool will regain the title? Or City will still hold on because of their money? But it seems that the last five years will not be like this.