The New Statesman
•72% Informative
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City team won their third consecutive Premier League title and their fifth in six years.
They are being investigated by the Premier League for 115 financial rule breaches dating back to 2009.
Manchester City will play Manchester United in the FA Cup and FA Cup final at Wembley.
City will begin as favourites to beat Inter Milan and claim their first Champions League title.
Guardiola came to measure himself in silverware to achieve success.
This is the part of obsession we rarely talk about: what gets sacrificed to achieve it.
One by one the traits that made Guardiola as universally loved as Cruyff are evaporating.
The idealism, the beauty, the idea that excellence can trump finance, the purity of success won fairly.
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