For a month, rumors of Patrick Vieira’s rumored departure to his native France flooded my Twitter feed and the various New York City FC fan groups on Facebook I’m a member of. Each whisper of the French gaffer moving to OGC Nice gradually grew into a deafening scream until it became the first topic associated with NYCFC.
Eventually, despite the multitude of denials and dismissals from the man himself, the reports turned out to be factual and on June 10, Manchester City officially announced that Vieira would be leaving his post in New York for Nice effective immediately.