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now that we are out of the big competitions so I have time to say goodbye to everyone – and call you
individually into the office to thank you personally. I don’t want applause or anything, so ... let’s get
to training.’
And Pep clapped his hands together to emphasise that the talk was over; it was an order to get up

and move on. In less than a quarter of an hour, the history of the club had received a definitive twist.
Players were confused, bewildered.
Pep asked very little of his footballers that day on the training ground. He knew that he had dealt
them a bitter blow. For the players running out on to the pitch, that session represented the first steps
on the road to healing. For Pep, it represented the beginning of the end of a journey that had begun
around three decades earlier, in a sleepy little Catalan village called Santpedor.