Pep Guardiola always has a good touch at every club he visits. And the peak is that perhaps he will be even more respected if this season Man City can win the treble again. And I think the opportunity is still wide open. One thing that was different was that last season there was Gundogan who led the squad on the field. And this time De Bruyne is the center of the Man City squad on the field. With the spearhead still being the same, namely Haaland, I think this season Man City will win at least 2 trophies. My doubts are only in the Premier League. Because Liverpool still looks strong. Likewise with Arsenal. Meanwhile, in the UCL, I feel that Man City can still be considered the strongest team to date.
Pep Guardiola is smart and a great coach but he chose clubs to work with very carefully. He joined Bayern Munich and Manchester City because they are strong and rich. After success with Barcelona, Pep Guardiola does not want to take risk and only choose clubs that can help him to buy star players with good transfer budgets.
In this season, two big changes in Manchester City, they no longer have Gundogan and don't have good contribution from Jack Grealish. They are defending their Champions League title and will harder to win it like the past season. Haaland can not maintain his performances as good as past season and it will affect Manchester City in big matches. Kevin De Bruyne is sensitive with injuries and it will be big loss of Manchester City if he injures again in last months of season.
Haaland is not as good as last season. Because this season he even struggled without Bruyne at the start of the season. And when Bruyne returned it turned out that Haaland was the one who had to be absent due to injury. And after Haaland recovered from injury, he lost a little confidence and failed to score goals in several matches. But in the match against Luton we saw Haaland play well again and scored 5 goals. And I hope that will be a turning point for Haaland to be able to perform optimally again.
And regarding De Bruyne, he is prone to re-injury. But I hope he can avoid injury and can continue to accompany Haaland and help the attack line with his always classy touches in providing passes.
Pep is indeed a smart coach. He was able to see the potential in the club he was going to join.