Man City win Premier League title: Pep Guardiola's side 'two games away from immortality'

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Ilkay Gundogan celebrates scoring for Manchester City against Everton

Manchester City are "two games distant from immortality" aft securing a 3rd successive Premier League title, according to erstwhile England skipper Alan Shearer.

Pep Guardiola's broadside play Manchester United successful the FA Cup last connected 3 June, earlier facing Inter Milan a week aboriginal successful Istanbul, wherever they volition question their archetypal Champions League triumph.

"They volition beryllium talked astir for years to travel if they tin get the Treble," Shearer said.

"It's remarkable, what an accidental for them. They are 2 games distant from immortality."

City's Premier League dominance of 5 titles successful six seasons was past achieved by Manchester United betwixt 1996 and 2001 - a play during which they besides won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League successful 1999.

United besides won 7 titles successful 9 seasons betwixt 1993-2001, arsenic good arsenic 5 titles successful 7 seasons betwixt 2007-2013 - truthful City's existent dominance is not unprecedented. Before that, Liverpool successful the precocious 70s and aboriginal 80s enjoyed akin periods of consecutive league titles.

'There is nary weakness'

Manchester City players enactment up earlier their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid

Former City keeper Shay Given believes Guardiola's existent broadside are stronger than ever.

"They are incredible," Given said. "There are adjacent unsung heroes similar John Stones, beryllium it astatine right-back, centre-back oregon successful midfield.

"At times against Real Madrid successful midweek helium was the spare antheral connected the borderline of the box. He was signed arsenic a centre-half and helium is playing a cardinal relation successful this team.

"I can't spot a weakness. De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Mahrez. There are prima men each implicit the pitch."

Striker Erling Haaland's singular haul of 52 goals successful 48 games successful each competitions - including a record-breaking 36 goals successful 33 league appearances - has added adjacent much cutting borderline to the side.

Shearer believes the erstwhile Borussia Dortmund guardant tin unlock City's maiden Champions League win.

"The crushed Erling Haaland was bought was to enactment City successful this position," Shearer said.

"They've got 1 trophy successful the bag, and they've got 2 different finals. He was brought successful to triumph them the Champions League, helium lives for goals, that is what his beingness is about.

"I emotion his attitude, you tin archer that helium is truthful hungry, and however overmuch a extremity means to him, and I respect that truthful much."

Best Premier League broadside ever?

Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

City could yet triumph the Premier League by 13 points aft powering wide pursuing a classical duel with Arsenal and volition commencement arsenic favourites successful some remaining cupful finals.

Where they fertile successful past remains up for statement but erstwhile Premier League striker Glenn Murray believes they are a amended squad than Sir Alex Ferguson's 1999 Treble winners.

"Yes they are better," Murray said. "And I accidental that reluctantly arsenic I was United instrumentality arsenic a kid - I looked up to that procreation and it seems that feat would ne'er beryllium repeated.

"But this City squad are deadly. They bushed radical and determination on. They are an emotionless winning machine. Nothing bothers them.

"Do we person them arsenic 1 of the apical nine sides ever? If they adhd this Champions League and perchance this Treble past they are successful the statement alongside the likes of Pep's Barcelona."

Premier League charges inactive to beryllium resolved

City were charged successful February by the Premier League with much than 100 breaches of its fiscal rules pursuing a four-year investigation.

The charges screen the play of 2009-2018, since the 2008 takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group, led by billionaire Sheikh Mansour, a subordinate of the Abu Dhabi royal family.

They are accused of efficaciously falsifying their accounts and artificially inflating sponsorship and commercialized deals implicit a fig of years to let them to walk much but enactment wrong Uefa and Premier League rules.

City said they were "surprised by the charges" but welcomed the "review of this substance by an autarkic committee to impartially consider" their case, which the nine said was supported by a "comprehensive assemblage of irrefutable evidence".

City, who person ever denied fiscal wrongdoing, said they "look guardant to this substance being enactment to remainder erstwhile and for all".

The nine has been referred to an autarkic commission, which tin enforce punishments ranging from a good and points deduction to expulsion from the Premier League. It is not known however agelong the process volition take.

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