For all the talk there has been of Manchester City's struggles this season and how Erling Haaland has actually made them worse, the Blues could still win a historic treble at the end of it.
It just goes to show how incredibly high the standards now are for City after so much dominance over the last five years that even a slight lull in a campaign disrupted by the World Cup is seen in some quarters as a big disaster. As well as December's tournament, it's often forgotten the vast changes Pep Guardiola made to his squad last summer.
Fernandinho, Raheem Sterling, Aleks Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus, four players who have played huge roles in the club's success, all departed as Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez, Kalvin Phillips and Manuel Akanji took their places. That's a lot of experience to lose and a lot of sweeping change in one window, especially as Haaland's arrival has fundamentally changed how City play.
