Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has admitted that it will be "impossible" for his team to repeat the historic Treble success they achieved last season. City won the Premier League, the Champions League, and the FA Cup in 2022-23, becoming the eighth club to win the treble. Guardiola, who was also the coach of the Barcelona team, said that winning three major trophies in one season was a "once in a lifetime" feat that would be very difficult to replicate.
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He urged his players and fans to forget about the past and focus on the present, as they prepare to start their title defence against newly promoted Burnley on Friday. "It will be impossible to do what we did last season," Guardiola said at a press conference on Thursday. "It's once in a lifetime. I said to the players: 'Forget about it. We climbed the highest mountain last season with what we have done.' But the last two days we came down from the mountain and we start from there, everyone with the same intention. There will be a lot of difficulties to climb the mountain as high as possible—we'll see."
City will be aiming to become the first team in history to win four consecutive English top-flight titles, but Guardiola said that winning the league, the Champions League, and the FA Cup again would be too much to ask. He said that their performance, mentality, and behaviour would dictate how the season would go.
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"Our football, our behaviour, and our mentality will dictate how the season will be. In football, in sport, what we have done remains in our hearts and our minds, how nice it was, but it's over. Every season we start from zero again but history speaks for itself when you achieve something that we have done – it's almost impossible to repeat," he said.
