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Haaland's form and a red-hot attack: How Man City bucked the trend (for now) of slumping big clubs

Almost all the great clubs are worse: That's been a running theme in European soccer for the 2022-23 season.

Chelsea have gotten worse with every transfer purchase it made. Liverpool chased shiny scoring objects, forgot about its stale midfield and paid the price. Bayern Munich lost forward Robert Lewandowski, replaced him with a 17-year old and yet another winger, and panic-fired an expensive manager during the season's stretch run.

Paris Saint-Germain signed young, new players with one vision (Vitinha and Nuno Mendes), paired them with an expensive attacking front that has a different vision and hired a manager (Christophe Galtier) who has yet another different vision.