Doubts about Man.City's ability to recover

People will immediately talk about the state of being out of date - a bitter end that has never spared any monument, except those who know how to stop in the middle of glory.

It has been 17 years since Coach Guardiola started coaching top-flight football in 2008. He was successful in his first season. Not only that, those were also resounding achievements. His Barcelona won all matches, making a historic "six". And since then, he has been successful forever. From Barcelona, through Bayern Munich and then to Man.City, never in his coaching career has Mr. Guardiola had to witness another team lift the national championship trophy in two consecutive seasons. One season without a championship is... too much. We have to ask the opposite question: How many times has the team coached by Guardiola not won the national championship title? The answer is only 4 times throughout his career (2012, 2017, 2020, 2025).

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Except for a few very rare cases, experts believe that the success cycle of a good coach only lasts about ten years. Does that mean that coach Guardiola has challenged the rules of top-level football? Whether Man.City will win the Premier League this season or not will be a very important detail related to the above mentioned issue. If he does not regain the top position, it will be the first time in his coaching career that Mr. Guardiola has not won the national championship for two consecutive seasons, and that is also the luggage for him to enter his final season. His current contract will end in 2027. And he has publicly said that he will rest after finishing his work with Man.City!

If they cannot recover this season, Man.City - not just Guardiola - will face the risk of entering a period of decline...

On the surface, Man.City is superior in every way when visiting Wolverhampton (11:30 p.m. today, August 16) in the opening round of the Premier League. Not only losing in class, Wolverhampton is also weakening itself after losing Matheus Cunha (to MU) and Rayan Ait-Nouri (to Man.City) in this transfer season. In reality, if a strong team like Man.City loses points to a near-relegation opponent like Wolverhampton, all arguments immediately become meaningless and inexplicable.

While leading the standings last season, Man.City suddenly lost 4 consecutive matches in the Premier League, from which they collapsed and could not recover, until the situation of empty-handedness in all competitions was formalized. Then they were unexpectedly eliminated by Asian rivals Al-Hilal when they were the only team with a perfect record in the FIFA Club World Cup. Now, it is not known where the victory in the opening match of the Premier League will lead, but if Man.City cannot beat Wolverhampton, it will be very dangerous!