A Rodri strike gave City a 1-0 win at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium as they became European champions for the first time after several near misses in recent years.
Pep Guardiola laughed when it was put to him that Manchester City could go on to chase down Real Madrid’s record census of European Mugs after their palm over Inter Milan in Saturday’s titleholders League final.
“Be careful Real Madrid! If you sleep a little bit we will catch you, ” he joked in the wake of City’s first triumph in Europe’s nobility club competition, which also saw them complete a treble after they won the Premier League and FA Mug.
A Rodri strike gave City a 1- 0 palm at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium as they came European champions for the first time after several near misses in recent times.
The Abu Dhabi- possessed club have a long way to go to catch Real’s record haul of 14 palms, and it would be some achievement if they ever get there.
Yet it’s tempting to look at Saturday’s success in Turkey and wonder if it might definitively mark the launch of a new period in European football.
Real, the great nobles of the sport, have defied the rise of City and Paris Saint- Germain, brigades backed by Gulf riches, to win the champions League five times in the last decade.
The Spaniards were blown down by City in this season’s last four, however, and Guardiola’s side– beaten by Chelsea in 2021 final– may take some stopping now they’ve claimed their first title.
“The good thing is that we want more, ” match- winner Rodri said. “ This design is to want more, further ambition. ”
City are just the alternate English side to win the treble, following Manchester United in 1999.
It’s an period- defining triumph for a club whose rise has been remarkable, as well as a potentially period- shaping moment.
City were in England’s third league the time their cross-town rivals completed their treble.
United were reigning European titleholders while City had finished ninth in the former season’s Premier League when they were bought in 2008 by the Abu Dhabi United Group, backed by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al- Nahyan.
City hadn’t won the English title in 40 times at that point.
They’ve just claimed a seventh Premier League in 12 seasons and have won three FA Mugs and six League Mugs since the preemption. Now they’ve a first titleholders League.
“moment’s title is the result of a deliberate strategy developed 15 times agone, ” Sheikh Mansour, who’s vice-president of the United Arab Emirates, said in a statement.
He attended Saturday’s final, reportedly just the alternate match he has been to in that time, in which City have gone from also- rans to superpower.
Guardiola’s brilliance has been crucial, but he acknowledges none of what City have achieved would be possible without the 2008 preemption.
“hear, one of the main reasons why this club came what we’re is because people from Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mansour, took over the club, ” said the Catalan.
“Without that we wouldn’t be then. That’s the most important thing. ”
City had the biggest earnings of any football club last time according to judges Deloitte, of 731 million euros ($ 786m).
That same ranking a decade agone had them seventh, and their rise has posed problems for football, with City being fined 60 million euros in 2014 for violating UEFA’s Financial Fair Play regulations.
The club were banned for two times from UEFA competitions in February 2020 for “ serious fiscal show- play breaches ”, although the permission was latterly capsized.
In February this time, they were charged with 115 alleged rule breaches by the Premier League, concerning the period from 2009 to 2018.
Still, that case may not be resolved any time soon, and City appear poised to keep dominating, at least if they can keep Guardiola.
“I don’t want after one titleholders League to vanish, so we’ve to work harder coming season and be there, ” he said.
It isn’t just City.
Qatar- possessed PSG has come near ahead, losing the 2020 final to Bayern Munich.
They will surely ultimately get there in Europe, maybe coming season with Kylian Mbappe leading their design.
Coming season’s titleholders League will also feature Saudi- possessed Newcastle United. Meanwhile, Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani has been locked in a bidding war for Manchester United.
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