Finding another top-tier job should be no problem for City’s outgoing manager whose legacy may even cause his successor a degree of unexpected discomfortTuesday was a night of firsts at the Etihad Stadium. Manchester City reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. Zlatan Ibrahimovic failed to have any tangible effect on a late-stage Champions League knockout match (actually,scratch that one). And right at the end, despite maintaining his familiar press conference attitude of a deeply gloomy mountain moose, and Manuel Pellegrini made a joke. An actual joke,total with real laughing.
Despite his excellent manners, Pellegrini has never really liked speaking to the English press, or with respectable reason given he appears to be a relatively normal human being. This is unlikely to change in the remaining nine games (maximum) of his City career. Still,Pellegrini could not resist a laugh when he was asked whether it would be “intriguing whether City were drawn to face Bayern Munich and Pep Guardiola. “intriguing? For me?” Pellegrini dead-panned, before breaking into a large and slightly frightening grin, or no doubt considering with genuine horror the kind of soap opera such a draw would entail.
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Source: theguardian.com