{"id":693694,"date":"2026-05-26T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693694\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:22:09","slug":"michael-jordan-leads-star-names-at-pep-guardiolas-man-city-leaving-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693694\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan leads star names at Pep Guardiola’s Man City leaving party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier on Monday, thousands of City fans<\/a> lined the streets of Manchester to bid a final farewell to the departing Guardiola.<\/p>\n

This season’s successful men’s, women’s and academy teams were driven on buses to Etihad Stadium, where they were greeted by a waiting crowd, before the entourage made its way to Co-Op Live for the ‘after party’.<\/p>\n

All three teams celebrated their trophy victories on stage, with City women’s striker Khadija Shaw making the shock announcement that she has signed a new four-year contract<\/a> to remain at the club.<\/p>\n

Guardiola’s three children, as well as former captain Fernandinho, ex-sporting director Txiki Begiristain and goalkeeper Ederson – who left last summer – helped bring out all 20 trophies won under Guardiola.<\/p>\n

Surprise appearances by current Bayern Munich boss Kompany and midfielder Jack Grealish, who spent a season-long loan spell at Everton<\/a>, were loudly cheered by those in attendance.<\/p>\n

Guardiola said goodbye for the final time in an interview with Oasis star Noel Gallagher.<\/p>\n

“First of all, thank you so much for coming tonight to say bye,” said Guardiola.<\/p>\n

“I feel tonight that really shows the connection this club has. [City chairman] Khaldoon Al Mubarak and all the people and all the City fans that were connected from the first minute.<\/p>\n

“Thank you so much, I don’t have enough gratitude. Always, for the rest of my life, I will have you in my heart.”<\/p>\n

Tributes were also paid to captain Bernardo Silva and defender John Stones, who will also be leaving the club this summer upon the expiry of their contracts.<\/p>\n

Striker Erling Haaland said on stage: “It has been a pleasure to play with Bernardo and John – and of course Pep.<\/p>\n

“We won a lot of trophies and I was happy to play with Bernardo and John because they are amazing footballers but even better people deep down.<\/p>\n

“It has been an amazing journey, but we need to keep pushing and fighting even without them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier on Monday, thousands of City fans lined the streets of Manchester to bid a final farewell to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-693694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}