Guardiola on sporting director Txiki Begiristan leaving City

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on sporting director Txiki Begiristan leaving the club at the end of the season Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK

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00:00What will you and the club lose with Chiqui going at the end of the year?

00:03And are you looking forward to working with Hugo Valladares?

00:09Well, a part of me is living, I would say.

00:12So a friend of mine, one of the, I would say the architect,

00:15to create one of the best teams ever from Barcelona at that time and now here.

00:21A friend of mine and yeah, I knew the decision for a long time,

00:25you know, for the family reasons, personal reasons.

00:29I know how grateful he is for this experience here.

00:33Personally, it will be a miss, but of course, it will be a miss a lot,

00:39but for the confidence, for the trust, especially in the bad moments,

00:43because he made me incredible balance in my job because I'm so energetic.

00:48When they're going bad, I want to destroy everything and all the time said,

00:52see you tomorrow, take a coffee and his balance to, you know,

00:57to be completely crazy in another one.

00:59He's both helped me a lot in my period in Barcelona and of course here.

01:05But I had the opinion that the club is so solid, incredible well structured

01:12and like has to be like that in all the families.

01:15We have to move on and the club will move on.

01:17About Chiqui again, he has been here 12 years now.

01:20You're in your ninth year.

01:24Is it fair to say that neither of you expected to be here so long?

01:28And apart from the weather, what's made you stay?

01:33You're right.

01:34You are completely right in the spec, but it happened because we won a lot.

01:39Otherwise, my chairman adored me, but he would have sacked me if the result was not good.

01:44He would have sacked me if the result was not good.

01:47So the relations, whatever happens is there, will be there.

01:52But it had been long because we won a lot.

01:55There's no secrets here.

01:57It doesn't matter where you were born.

01:59If you don't win your position, everyone asks you, you know, to be sacked.

02:05And if you win and have success, the people support you.

02:08So it's not much, I would say, complicated than that.

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