I thinche desrevs it, but 1 more win will give Pep's City the records for most goals, most wins and most points in a season, and he did it playing beautiful football, to say he'd bought the league is to ignore the fortunes Liverpool and Man Utd have spent trying to do the same.
Liverpool - net spend £10M Man Utd - net spend £127M Man City - net spend £191.7M https://talksport.com/football/tran...ub-both-summer-and-winter-201718-windows?p=19 So if they spent fortunes how would you describe City’s?
Obviously this must be qualified by the fact a fee clubs in there sold players for ridiculouslh inflated fees (VVD and Coutinho), but Man City won the title because they spent a vast sum. They spent it well, but they spent it. The only thing those tables absolutely 100% clarify, is how well Dyche, Benitez and Hodgson have done, and how poorly Everton have done.
He's bought players well and has his team playing exsquisite football whilst other have also spent fortunes and haven't been anywhere near as good or as entertaining. Spending doesn't guarantee anything, you lot spent a fortune under KK, think he's a great manager, what exactly did he win? And yet all 5 teams from the Premiership made it to the knock-out rounds of the Champions league.
Apart from... Barcelona's acquisition of Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho for £146m which was the most expensive deal across the five major European leagues - Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A.
If it isn’t Sean Dyche then the whole awards are a farce. If they give it to Pep for spending 475m in two seasons then we will know that the PL is well and truly bent. Rafa has done well. However people bang on and on about having no money etc etc. Yet Dyche has had way less to play with. To turn a profit in the summer and back up a 16th place finish from their first season back, and lead them into Europe the following season without spending a penny, sends Dyche into a different league of managerial achievements to the rest of the managers. Personally I’d have Rafa and Hughton right up with Pep this season too. Not cribbing Pep but they have bought the league. We bought our way out of Championship there is no doubting that. But we did it through generated funds. They’ve generated a lot but they have literally thrown money at him.
