Pep Guardiola admits Manchester City’s treble win was a “once in a lifetime” occasion and warned there may very well be a drop off for the membership this season.

The City boss kicks off their title defence towards newly promoted Burnley at Turf Moor on Friday evening.

And whereas he expects City’s gamers to take care of their excessive requirements he mentioned hopes of a repeat final 12 months’s sensational season have been unrealistic.

“I think it will be impossible to do what we have done last season. It’s once in a lifetime,” mentioned the City boss.

“I said to the players ‘Forget about it, We climbed the highest mountain last season with what we have done.’

“But the last two days we came down from the mountain and we start from there – everyone with the same intention – and while there will be a lot of difficulties to climb the mountain as high as possible to our level, we'll see.”

Manchester City have received 5 of the final six Premier League titles beneath Guardiola and a dozen main trophies since his arrival on the Etihad in 2016.

While the City boss mentioned it was too quickly to make any predictions about whether or not they can add to that haul for all that his gamers have returned simply as hungry.

“Our football, our behaviours, our mentality will dictate how the season will be,” he mentioned.

“Every season we start from zero again but history speaks for itself when you achieve something that we have done its almost impossible to repeat.”

Guardiola reported each Nathan Ake and new signing Josko Gvardiol are match and able to play however each are more likely to begin on the bench at Turf Moor.