Pep Guardiola’s final two seasons at Manchester City are being turned into a four-part behind-the-scenes series on Amazon’s Prime Video. Guardiola stepped down as Manchester City manager at the end of the season after a decade in charge, and the film-makers are leaning into that goodbye. He won 20 trophies during that spell, but the series is being sold as an emotional farewell rather than just a roll call of silverware.
What the series is being sold as
The BBC report says the series is described as the "ultimate account of an emotional farewell that marks the end of an era in English football". That framing matters. City are not packaging this as a dry retrospective, they are selling access to the end of the Guardiola cycle, with the departures of Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and John Stones expected to sit alongside Guardiola’s own exit.
Gavin Johnson, City Football Group’s media director, said: "We are incredibly proud to be announcing this documentary series that offers a new insight to Manchester City and surpasses the scale of other documentaries we have done before." The club is also treating this as a bigger project than its Netflix work from two years ago.
That is the point here. Amazon is not just getting access to a successful team, it is getting the final act of a long run in which Manchester City won 20 trophies and still finished with the manager departing at the end of the season.
Why the timing matters
The series is expected to launch in the UK and Ireland this summer, so the farewell angle will land while Guardiola’s exit is still fresh. City’s closing numbers also give the documentary a sharper backdrop. They finished second in the Premier League with 78 points from 37 matches, and were eighth in the Champions League group/league phase with 16 points from 8 matches.
That mix is useful for a documentary. It is not a flat victory lap, because the club ended the campaign in strong domestic shape but not in the sort of dominant, all-trophy way that would make the story too neat. Recent league form was DWWDW, which is another reason the series should have enough edge to work as television.
If Amazon gets the tone right, this should be less museum piece and more access-driven farewell. The central hook is simple enough: Guardiola leaves after a decade, City lose several familiar faces, and the cameras are there for the whole thing.
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