Ferran Soriano spent his Tuesday night sat in the dark, and that is how Pep Guardiola has kept the football world over his future.
Manchester City's CEO and his fellow executives may not have liked the uncertainty of allowing their manager - the best in the world at what he does, as the documentary Soriano was watching showed as news broke of Guardiola's decision - to run down his contract but the reward was worth the risk.
Once again, patience and perseverance have been rewarded with City keeping their manager into a tenth and possibly 11th year.
The expectation at the end of last season, both from people at the club who would know and from those who knew Guardiola, was that he would leave the club in 2025.
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