Pep was the boy who cried wolf! Man City chairman says Guardiola threatened to leave ‘100 times’… but this season he knew he was serious

Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak likened Pep Guardiola to an Aesop’s Fable after threatening to quit ‘100 times’ across his decade as manager.

Guardiola said an emotional farewell to the club last month having presided over unprecedented success and City are hoping to appoint former assistant Enzo Maresca as his successor in the coming days.

Al Mubarak has a history of talking the Catalan into penning new contracts and opened up on their close relationship – revealing how unpredictable moods became entirely predictable.

‘I don’t know if he will admit it, but I consider myself his psychiatrist,’ Al Mubarak said. ‘I had

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