Topic: ⚽ Premier League 2023/2024 Discussion Thread ⚽ - page 208. (Read 59100 times)

It's not often that we see clubs with the treble and that's why the only English Premier League club that's won the the treble before Manchester City achieved that feat last season was Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United so I wasn't surprised that Pep Guardiola's Manchester City failed to repeat that same achievement of last season in the current season. Pep Guardiola as we all know is the only manager that's one the treble two times as he did win it during his time at Barcelona and last season with Manchester City but one thing about the Spanish manager is that he's always trying to break as many records as possible.
I'm yet to see manager who's very eager to break records that'll remain untouched for ages like Pep Guardiola but that's actually a very interesting feature of the Manchester City manager and that why he's been able to achieve so many records in the world football over the years.

Maintaining what was won last season is more difficult than achieving it, Manchester City has tried to repeat last season's success, but Real Madrid has knocked Manchester City out of the UCL early. Manchester City performance is not too disappointing this season, Pep Guardiola has just led The Cityzen to defend the EPL trophy for four consecutive seasons and still has the chance to win the FA CUP trophy. Of course, Manchester City will not waste the opportunity to win the FA CUP trophy, they will also win it from Manchester United like when they won the EPL trophy from Arsenal.

Before Manchester City was taken over by Sheikh Mansour in 2008 of course Manchester City was a mediocrity team in the English League, but after Sheikh Mansour took over of course Manchester City has transformed into a fairly strong team and continues to be a contender for the championship in the English League and Champions League, in the early era of Manchester City ownership,   Sheikh Mansour immediately poured a large enough fund of around 500 million pounds to make improvements to their squad and until now of course there are countless amounts of money he has spent to make Manchester City as great as it is today, that's why I think the achievements of a football club are not far from the amount of money the owners have,  there are some teams that are able to compete as title contenders without a lot of money, but I think those teams don't last more than two seasons like Leicester City did.

In addition to money, of course, the coach factor is an important factor that makes Manchester City as great as it is today, coaching methods, motivation and also the tactics and strategies that Guardiola has applied in Manchester City so far are certainly able to lift Manchester City performance to continue to compete in the race for the title, I think in today modern era, Guardiola is the most successful coach in the world and he continues to be able to make the team he coaches can win the championship the prestigious, of course the trophy wins in Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City have been clear evidence of his greatness so far.

That's normal odds considering the performances of both teams in the last games. Manchester United have been so disappointing in the last several games. They even experienced big losses against teams when they are expected to win. Injuries have big impact on their performances, but there is no excuse to be that bad, because the squad depth better than the teams that beat them.

It's expected that Manchester City become an absolute favorite to win the FA cup. It feels strange, because that's still a derby game which should be an intense game at any circumstance. The ambition to secure the trophy has made Manchester City become a scary team to play against. There is no reason for Guardiola to lower their determination in the game as this is the last game and the climax of the season.     

Oh boy! Look at the odds... It's so disappointing to see Manchester United in this situation. Bookies are determining the odds like they are one of the weak teams in the PL while they are facing Manchester City. 

But there is nothing to do as long as they don't make progress with new transfers this summer. Anyway my favourite is of course Manchester City like most people. They have just become the champions in the PL and their morale must be at top level. Some people might say that maybe they won't finish celebrations and focus on the FA Cup finale properly. Honestly I don't think so. Guardiola would be prepared for adding another trophy to his collection.

I am in total support for Manchester City to beat man United because I’m a Chelsea fan and if man United should beat the citizens we will be qualifying for the UEFA conference league but if Manchester City should win Chelsea will be qualifying for the UEFA Europa league. Chelsea’s were without a European football this season, for a club like Chelsea standard European football is a must every season. This past weekend I supported the citizens and I will also be doing that when the face Manchester United in the FA cup finals.

The season ended yesterday and it was a show down. Manchester city were declared winners of the 2023/2024 season with them needing to beat Westham and de did. Without wasting time Phil foden scored a 2 Min goal and shows exactly why he was the player of the season. The match ended 3-1 and Arsenal also doing it late beating Everton 2-1 in a very tough contest. I didn’t want gunners to win the title because they are our rivals so it was a good game all round and luton Town couldn’t keep there place in the premier league with them been relegated.

Pep Guardiola's Manchester City wanted to repeat their feat of last season by winning the UEFA Champions League, English Premier League and the English FA Cup competitions but Real Madrid stopped them from achieving another treble this season but despite their elimination from the UEFA Champions League competition, Manchester City can still go on and win two out of the three trophies they won last season. Yesterday in the English Premier League, Manchester City were able to win the English Premier League after defeating West Ham and will now have to face their city neighbors Manchester United at Wembley for the final of the English FA Cup competition.
In my own opinion, I think the citizens are definitely going to win that particular final. Manchester United who haven't been able to win any trophy this season is expected to be at their best when they face Manchester City in the final but considering the performances of both teams, Manchester City will win

Take a look at the match statistic between city and westham. It's obvious that if city was totally owning westham. The goal from kudus was only a free goal caused by a small mistake being made by city's defender by keep him to do bicycle kick. You can compare that from the total shoots, ball possessions.

City was totally owning the game. Even city was always isolating westham, it's aways playing a half field. Westham tried so hard from leaving being isolated by city's players but they are unable to do that./
I must admit that how manchester city was showing better performance in this game.

Manchester City is set to play in another final after it was winning premier league. The citizen will be given another chance to win the FA Cup against manchester united soon and i think that's gonna be another ez game for city like when it was beating westham. city will face Manchester United for the three times this season and i strongly believe city will beat it once again. I am convinced that MU serves no purpose for the city and FA cup will be owning by manchester city soon. It's clear that picking city is even more profitable in this game considering how poor MU is now. Picking a city to win the game is regarded as the safest option even though the odds was not tempting.

BTTS is likely to occur because this is the final match but the probability may be low. It should be noted that Manchester City is in excellent form after winning the Premier League and FA cup is just under city's radar to add it on its trophy cabinet.

Meanwhile, its competitor fell to the middle of the table. Chelsea has performed even better than Manchester United. We will see that the striker claimed by United fans to perform better than Haaland is once again defeated by Haaland.

It is time for Haaland to prove to Hojlund that he is the best striker in the Premier League.

The league just ended and you're still anticipating Arsenal winning the league that Manchester City just won yesterday and the last time Arsenal fought for the title was last season, the last time they won it was in 2003/2004 so you misunderstood the whole thing.

You were going somewhere but you mixed up the whole thing. Klopp just left and Pep still has a year on his contract so maybe one day the likes of Arteta, Eth and Poch will have better competition when Pep leaves cause that is the only way others can compete.

It was difficult for West Ham to stop Man City in yesterday's match. They should have been able to stop Man City from being a relatively strong club, but there is a match that Man City will play, when they face Chelsea, Chelsea will be able to put pressure on Man City in the fight for the title. This season with Arsenal, I hope that Arsenal can win the title this season, not without reason, because they have been fasting for a title for too long, the last time in 2003/2004, so at least Arenal can take advantage of the moments in the remaining matches because it could be decisive in end of season.

Throughout the game, Westham have exerted all their abilities to try to hold Manchester City to a draw, but Arsenal who do depend their fate on other teams must of course be prepared to be disappointed when the results do not match the expectations they want, because indeed they depend on the chance of winning on a small team that is indeed unable to withstand the strength of Manchester City, even Manchester City who are close to the championship trophy do not wait long and need Work hard to break down Arsenal mentality and also hope to be championship in other match, because Manchester City who appeared attacking and dominant since the game began only took no less than 2 minutes to create their first goal and make Arsenal chances to be  championship lost.

Manchester City of course has quality and also a better performance than Westham so from the beginning it was very doubtful if Westham would be able to make it difficult for Manchester City in the game, but even so of course not entirely Westham was not able to make Manchester City troublesome, although Manchester City was able to dominate Westham in that the match, but there were still opportunities that Westham was able to create to make Manchester City defense line work hard in the match, although in the end Manchester City closed the match with a victory as well as their fourth consecutive championship trophy.

Phil Foden had his prime this season and he will probably do even better in my opinion. I don't know if you've noticed, but every shot Foden takes to his left is going into the same corner. Top notch skills. Adn the title is well deserved. Congratulations, City. If you look at the net expenditures of the last years, you will see that City do not spend as much as other teams. Foden is a youth player their own teams. KDB is a player of how many years? Too many. That is what I like about City's success. I don't see any reason they can't repeat this multiple times even still after now.

West Ham has made a strong effort to stop Man City from winning the EPL title but still West Ham was unable to stop it because Man City's strength is quite large and their attack system is also stronger than West Ham as proven by the number of shots taken by Man City and West Ham only made several attempts but only 1 was successfully converted but that was not enough to stop Man City so this time West Ham could not help Arsenal to break Man City's dominance in winning the title.

Actually, the defeat against Aston Villa was a disappointing result when Arsenal had to lose at home, whereas Arsenal dominated possession of the ball, but what was very strange was that Arsenal failed to take advantage of a very good opportunity and couldn't score anything.
I admit that Aston Villa looked very strong at that time with a quick counter attack and produced 2 scores which embarrassed Arsenal fans.
Previously, all fans believed that this was Arsenal's chance to win the title this season, but at that time Arsenal also had to focus on the Champions League match and ultimately had to lose points in the match against Aston Villa.

Eyes on him, Declan Rice, Harry Kane, James Madison, Olie Watkins, Kobbie Mainoo, Konsa, and all of these Brits who did well, I want to see that having a great Euro's come next month.
Top Lad Phil Foden, that goal he scored against Manchester United gave man shivers, I knew he was up for this shit and look at him buzzing. Yeah, he did score more goals compared to that tw@t called Marcus Trashford 

I was even considering Unai Emery because he has finally taken Aston Villa back to the Champions League Competition after many years, I think the last time they was in the Champions League Competition was in the ⁹⁰'s

Good! Same way you can't call him that is the same way I don't expect people to do to Erik Ten Hag, because in his first two seasons compared to Mikel Arteta, he has seen more successful trophies and jack to back for Manchester United than Mikel Arteta. So why do these posters and folks call him a failed manager? Sickening.

Well Pep has now written his name in Gold and at the moment, he stands as the greatest coach to grace the EPL because he just won the league 4 times in a row and 6 in 7 years for City. I think none other yet will be able to match him as he’s real built this City team. ⁠You can see how the City team are anle to perform even when they’re under pressure and especially when it gets towards the end of the season.

 They take every match like a final and make sure they’re getting all 3 points in the match. In the game yesterday against West Ham, you can see how they real dominated the match to make sure they secured the win comfortably. For Arsenal, I think they have to prepare well for next season as they have to make sure they’re not going to lose up to 5 games in the coming season, if they want to have a chanve against Pep.

 Yes the team must be commended for their improvement as they performed better than last season and now they must move forward.⁠For Arteta, I won’t call him a failure yet but one more season without the league trophy and I think he should be sacked because he can’t just keep giving the hope. The players have prospects and I think they can give their all next season and perform better.

Manchester City's success cannot be separated from the outpouring of money from Sheikh Mansour's Abu Dhabi United Group which acquired The Citizen. Pep Guardiola, who has experience taking care of young players, is able to choose young talent to complete the Man City squad to play with senior players. Manchester City has a complete squad with even abilities between the first team and reserve players.

 Guardiola has just led Man City to win the Premier League title for the 2023/2024 season. In the final standings, they are two points ahead of Arsenal. Achieving this title confirms Man City's dominance in the Premier League, during the Pep Guardiola era. Because from eight seasons competing in the Premier League, Guardiola was able to win six titles. The issue of Pep's departure is very interesting for us to follow. As we know, Pep Guardiola only has one season remaining on his contract.

Foden was really incredible. He is one of the very credible players in Manchester City squad in especially critical games like this. For example we don't even see Haaland this productive in such games. Foden finished the season with 19 goals and 8 assists in the league. What a performance right?     He even scored more goals than many strikers.

Arteta absolutely deserved that award but because of Manchester City's being the champions, it will be given to Guardiola. Still I also think Arteta also deserved it fully.

I don't think it would be fair to call Arteta "a failed manager". He is doing the best he can with such a young squad.

I was expectant but everything failed, congratulations to Josep Pep Guardiola. Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson had records and it's good to see others come in match that up, break records and also set them records. West Ham United did a great job but Manchester City has got to be on another level even as much as I think they did decline honestly. Phil Foden should be proud of himself, he indeed took responsibility game after game this season. Congratulations to him and the rest of his teammates.

This is hurting but Arsenal should focus on recovery process and rest, those who will leave for Euro's should and after that they will definitely make good signatures in midfied and attack.
They will not give Arteta the Premier League Coach of the season but I feel like he deserves it. They will go again next season, glad they're having a younger squad.

They're doing well, playing good football but should we call him a failed manager?

Since Guardiola came to Premier League, the champion has become predictable, which makes Guardiola a great manager who is able to change the landscape of a competition. The consistent winning streak was rare before Guardiola came to Premier League. All the three teams had a long winning streak this season, it was just Liverpool having a big drop off after the winning streak, while Arsenal could give a good reaction to the loss.

Among the three teams, Liverpool was the one who had an injury crisis, they even had 7 starters unavailable at the same time. They even succeeded to win the League Cup with some academy players on the pitch. Manchester City and Arsenal had few injuries that were not really impactful for them. While De Bruyne and Haaland were injured, they kept winning games. Arsenal didn't even have an impactful injuries, and they have a good squad depth as the replacements.