Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and his wife started a divorce procedure, but are reportedly 'using the same lawyer' to ensure that it is amicable.
The millionaire boss and fashion entrepreneur Cristina Serra would have already agreed the first conditions of their settlement agreement after the news about their shock distribution became public last month.
And friends indicate that they are determined to stay on friendly conditions because of their three children and at all costs to avoid an ugly judicial battle.
Lorena Vazquez, one of a duo of highly respected Spanish Showbiz reporters who call themselves the Mamarazzis, went into a National TV program on Monday to say that she had launched a divorce proceedings six weeks after it had decided, Pep and Cristina to be time Call on their 30-year relationship.
Lorena again linked the split to the unexpected decision of the Man City Manager last November to extend his contract with the Premier League club for another two years.
Cristina returned to Barcelona with their youngest child in 2019 to concentrate on her business interests and would have decided that 'enough was' after learning about Pep's decision to stay in the UK until 2027.
Lorena confirmed that the couple had started 'friendly' divorce procedure through the same lawyer.
She told the Spanish TV program 'Y Ahora Sonsoles':' The divorce is conscientiously prepared and they have it in the hands of people who really leave them trust.
'What surprises me most is that both have the same lawyer who arranges the whole case.
“They want it to be amicable because of their children.”
She added: “Because you can imagine that money will not be a problem and they are now about the first conditions to ensure that this divorce is as warm as possible.”
She said further, when he was asked why she thought Pep, 53, was still wearing his wedding ring: 'It is surprising that he is still wearing his wedding ring and I could not tell you if it is a symbol that he wants Continue to wear as a tribute to his marriage or as an open door to reconciliation, because what is told us is that he might be more open to that than his wife.
'What I am also told is that Cristina suffers from the fact that her name has emerged.
'She has been a person who has always been in the background who never wanted to be known or recognized as a partner of Pep Guardiola, although she is very proud to marry him.
'But seeing themselves in shiny magazines and seeing themselves as the object of the tabloids is something that she doesn't like at all.
'But we know that they are very happy that the news was finally released, or instead of happy that I would say relieved.
'We had little information when we first came up with the news, but we knew it was true, so much so much that they have now transferred the news to all their good friends, because they initially wanted to keep information about the details of the divorce.
'They still stop that information, but they confirm everyone who asks them that they are divorced.
'Although they are nowhere on protagonists, there is a certain relief on their part that their split has finally come out, no third people are involved, and that it is due to Pep with Manchester City's contract renovation that became very stressful and Was also a surprise for Cristina.
Cristina insisted that she felt 'great' in her first comments since the news about their split last month when she was only shopped in Barcelona.
She opted for silence when she was then asked by a Spanish reporter about the cause of them falling apart and refused to comment when she has been approached since then.
The eldest daughter of the couple, Maria, opened her parents' lessons about love after he had become the first family member who had spoken since the shock news of their split.
The beautiful influencer and fashionista said in a Spanish magazine interview that was published around the same time that her father originated with Cristina: 'My parents have always advised me to find what I am passionate about.
'They encourage me to try new things, accept failure and keep searching until I find my calling, because if I do that, full dedication will come naturally.
“They also remind me that the most important thing in life is loving and becoming loved.”
The 24-year-old beauty in London continued to tell Vanity Fair Spain: 'In the end it all comes down to feeling loved.
“Even in situations in which we feel out of place, they tell me to listen well to others, there is always something valuable to learn from every person we meet.”
Pep and Cristina's only son Marius, 22, has just opened his fourth shoe store in Dubai under the NewCop brand.
Spanish press reporting on the opening at the end of last week said that Pep and Cristina had brought 'maximum happiness'.
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