Stric
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Why is everyone acting as if Pep left because the ship was sinking? He fulfilled his contract and left. I wish he hadn't, but he didn't screw anyone over by leaving. He even said after winning the 2011 CL final, when the team was at their absolute peak, that at the moment, he is willing to do one more season, but that he's not sure if he will continue after that. He even said something about stopping for a while when he starts lacking passion and drive. That was a year before he actually announced he wasn't extending his contract and the team started declining (although I think that's not very true, either - we were one extremely-unlucky-game-against-Chelsea away from the CL final for the second year in a row). It's obvious his mind wasn't 100% in it even when they were at their very best.