If Pep Guardiola thought the 2024/25 season couldn’t get a lot worse for Manchester Metropolis, he was sorely mistaken.
The Sky Blues had been a non-entity in a Premier League marketing campaign dominated by current rivals Liverpool.
Champions League? Neglect about it. Actual Madrid had their quantity there. Carabao Cup? Whats up, Tottenham!
Certainly, they couldn’t throw away the FA Cup to Oliver Glasner’s Twelfth-placed Crystal Palace? Oh expensive…
What one Liverpool fan informed Pep Guardiola at Wembley
(Picture by Mike Hewitt/Getty Photos)
What a nasty season this has turned out to be for the Etihad-based outfit.
A 1-0 defeat within the FA Cup last to Crystal Palace consigned Manchester Metropolis to their first trophyless season below Guardiola for the reason that 2016/17 season.
Slightly hilariously, it’s additionally the primary time an English membership has received its first main title since Wigan Athletic stunned Man Metropolis in the identical last in 2012/13.
Pep wasn’t to be let off flippantly after the full-time whistle both. One obvious Liverpool fan dug the knife in deeper with a wonderful reminder of Arne Slot’s Premier League success this time period because the Metropolis boss made his approach up the steps at Wembley Stadium.
“20 instances, you bald rat!” the fan in query shouted on the former Barcelona head coach.
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Cash isn’t all the things for Man Metropolis
It shouldn’t go unsaid that this Man Metropolis squad appears considerably spent. That’s to be anticipated, too, after repeated back-to-back years of success, domestically and overseas, for an in any other case relentless Premier League outfit.
Nonetheless, there’s no approach in hell this could undermine what has been an unbelievable begin to life in England for Arne Slot.
The Sky Blues could also be in determined want of additional reinforcements, however Guardiola’s Liverpool counterpart inherited a largely unchanged squad.
Wonderful, we added Federico Chiesa in the summertime, however can we actually say the Italian performed a big position within the marketing campaign?
So, mainly no cash spent forward of the 2024/25 season, and Slot nonetheless managed to safe a twentieth English top-flight title for the Reds?
Not a chequebook supervisor then! And he might be set to dominate English soccer for fairly a while if Guardiola departs Man Metropolis within the close to future.
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