They are by far the best domestic side of the PL. You can look at the United side of 99 or 07-08 to find a team that can compete with them if you're arguing sides that are the best teams fighting on both domestic and european fronts, but purely domestically there is no question that it is City. They're the only male side to win a domestic treble and they broke the 100 point barrier. That's two seasons and two records broken. Last season they absolutely smashed the league to pieces and weren't challenged mentally as much as they could have been. This season Liverpool took up the mantle of emotionally battling them and City showed that when push comes to shove they are bloody relentless. 198 points in two seasons is a joke.
Football has money, boo hoo.
City domestically are unreal at the moment. 198 points in 2 seasons is phenomenal, the football they play is on another level, they are relentless. They’ll be expected to repeat the feat next season and rightly so be favourites to do so in all 3 domestic comps.
United 93-96 were pretty good domestically, people will argue the strength of the league back then but winning the double twice, is a fine achievement.
94 PL winners FA cup Winners LC Runners up
95 PL 2nd FA cup Runners up
96 PL winners FA cup Winners
Europe then become the one SAF wanted, we didn’t have the squad depth of a modern day Man City to compete on 4 fronts, so whilst the League was the number one priority, SAF gave less importance to the domestic cups.
United have won 3 PL’s in a row on 2 separate occasions and from 06-13 won 5 out of 7, losing one by a single point and one by goal difference. Adding a CL and 2 league cups in that time.
Whilst City are domestic top dogs for now, and have overcome the first hurdle by winning back to back titles, I think we’re still a way from calling them the best ever. We could be here in 2 years time, City have won 4 in a row, then they’ll be no doubt to where they rank domestically.