It does worry me that some of our best players seem unsettled, is it just because we won the treble, so there isn’t anything else to beat that? Maybe I can understand the over 30s, but we really need Bernado to stay.
There isn’t anything else to beat a treble?
There are three major domestic trophies in English football and add the CL to that and it’s a quadruple.
United brainwashed everyone in 1999 into making everyone think they’d put a full stop on football with their treble. But it’s only a three of the four trophies on offer. A very good achievement, but it is not the ultimate!
A record four league titles in a row is arguably a better achievement than a treble (high level consistency over four years in the best league in the world, over a good run of form from February to June). Back-to-back Champions Leagues is also arguably a better achievement than a treble (showing high level performances in the top competition two seasons running showing that the win last season wasn’t just a one-off, over a good run of form from February to June).
Nobody has ever won four league titles in a row in English football history.
No English club has won back-to-back CLs in the modern era.
No club in Europe has won a league and CL double after winning a treble since Ajax in 1973.
Even trophies like the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA World Club Cup are trophies this club and all of our players have never won before.
If our players aren’t motivated to reach these standards this season and are relaxed and letting their standards drop because they think there is nothing that can beat last season, they’re at the wrong club.