It’s the query we’ve all been asking on and off for a decade now – can anybody cease Manchester Metropolis’s dominance?
They’ve bought essentially the most cash, the very best gamers, the highest coach within the recreation, and the very best fits upstairs working issues. It’s been a effectively oiled successful machine – however there’s lastly a way that issues could possibly be coming aside a bit.
First up, there are the fees from the Premier League hanging over them. It seems to be unlikely that they are going to be punished by way of shedding factors or having titles stripped from them, nevertheless it may spell the top of a cycle.
Pep Guardiola has signed a brand new contract, however that doesn’t cease him strolling away if he desires to; there’s a brand new sporting director coming in; key gamers like Kevin de Bruyne are out of contract and loads of others are entering into their 30s.
Profitable takes it’s toll on you mentally too, and what’s been unbelievable about this staff to this point is how Guardiola has been in a position to preserve them motivated regardless of their infinite success. Some suspect there now a way that he’s run out of how to get this group to play at 100% after so a few years and so many trophies.
Regardless of all that, and regardless of how good and methodical Liverpool look beneath Arne Slot, you’d be a idiot to write down off Man Metropolis at any stage. You’ll be able to learn extra right here, however the lengthy and in need of it’s that they’ll nonetheless be favourites for the title subsequent 12 months. That’s the kind of respect persistently successful a lot earns you.
Would anybody be shocked in the event that they clamber again into the highest 4 this 12 months regardless of a surprising run of dangerous kind? No. Would anybody be shocked in the event that they restore themselves in the summertime and are available again refreshed and motivated subsequent season? Completely not.
So the place does that depart Chelsea? This new staff are nonetheless fairly undercooked, and wish a 12 months beneath Enzo Maresca to get into form. However given we had been within the title race till Christmas this 12 months, we anticipate a problem proper till the top of the season subsequent 12 months, if we will proceed to tweak and enhance the squad in the summertime.
The place will Man Metropolis be at that stage? It’s not possible to know for positive. However on the proof of the final decade, we should be nearly good to catch them or beat them to the highest.
