Guardiola bids farewell to Manchester City fans at emotional Co-op Live send-off

Pep Guardiola said goodbye to Manchester City on Monday, delivering an emotional farewell speech at Co-op Live following an open-top bus parade through the city that marked the end of his ten-year reign at the club.

Guardiola addressed supporters directly, thanking them for attending and paying tribute to departing players. “Always I will have, for the rest of my life, have you in my heart,” he told the crowd. “Thank you so much, I don’t have enough gratitude.”

The Catalan coach was joined on stage by several players also leaving the club. John Stones and Bernardo Silva both spoke at the after-party event, with Silva and Erling Haaland drawing laughs from the crowd as they shared a story from when the pair first met while Bernardo was at Monaco. Haaland used his moment on stage to promise City fans he would keep fighting to help the club reclaim the Premier League title.

The evening leaned heavily into nostalgia, with video montages of Guardiola’s highlights played to Oasis’s Live Forever, and clips of memorable press conference moments — including a dressing-room outburst and his baffled response to the phrase “squeaky bum time” — drawing loud reactions from the audience. A mention of Sir Alex Ferguson from an old press conference prompted booing from the crowd before supporters broke into song about City’s four consecutive league titles.

Fernandinho, Ederson, Jack Grealish and Vincent Kompany were among the other figures Guardiola singled out in his speech, describing them as “incredible legends.”

The parade brought together the men’s, women’s and academy squads to celebrate their respective successes this season, with Monday’s event serving as a collective farewell to Guardiola and several long-serving players departing the club this summer.