This has been the end game all along. This is what it has always been about at the modern Manchester City. To be here not only as champions but also to be more than that. To occupy a different level to everybody else. To dominate and to rule. To be different than everybody else. To be better.
And now they are here. Not yet a treble. The weeks to come will either deliver that or otherwise. But their position as English football’s dominant force is secure. Five Premier League titles in six seasons. Not since Manchester United opened the Premier League era by winning eight of the first eleven episodes have we ever witnessed anything like this.