5 things Pep Guardiola must do to ensure Manchester City are title contenders in 2017/18

#1 Give it time

Pep needs to convince these guys to give him more time

The biggest difference with Pep Guardiola managing Manchester City when compared to Bayern Munich and Barcelona is that the league he’s in isn’t a two-horse race and he needs his time to fine tune his squad to the challenge.

At Barcelona, he had the best squad and Lionel Messi. At Bayern Munich, he inherited a squad that had just won the treble and had Thomas Muller, David Alaba and Jerome Boateng – three young stars waiting to explode at the same time he arrived.

Manchester City have been great in recent years but with the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham all gaining strength, they seem to have fallen behind a little. Pep needs time to make them winners. He knows how to handle a championship winning team and at City, he has the chance to do so again.