Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak says he wants the Citizens to win both the Premier League and Champions League every season. City have ended the season without a trophy this term even with Pep Guardiola as their manager but Al-Mubarak does not want to see that happen again. This is a warning to Guardiola, that playing good football is not better than trophies.
“There’s no doubt it’s extremely hard to do the double, because of the nature of the Premier League and the level of competition in the Champions League,” he told Manchester City’s official website. “This is an unbelievably challenging feat to achieve, but nevertheless you would not be in the position I am if you don’t think and believe you can do it.
“The last two champions in the Premier League have won the league without playing in Europe. So that’s shown, in my view, the advantage that that puts for the people who are not competing in Europe.
“Chelsea playing in the league this year without Europe no doubt provided them with an important advantage and that’s helped them win the league, but I don’t take anything away from them,” he added.
“Winning the league is winning the league, and they’ve done an incredible job and my hat is off to Antonio Conte and his squad and the entire management of Chelsea, they’ve done an incredible job this year and the results speak for themselves.
“But nevertheless, the point remains that going into next year, no doubt, teams that are in Europe will have a more challenging experience of winning the league than teams not in Europe but that’s no excuse because, for us, our job is to try to win both the Premier League and the Champions League and to do everything we can to do so and that will remain our objective.”
The Citizens finished third in the league, 15 points behind eventual champions Chelsea, while they were knocked out of the UCL by AS Monaco at the round of 16.
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