There isn’t a prescriptive guide for how to defend the Premier League title. How to create a dynasty, how to go again. How to back it up.
Keep the same squad? No guarantees. Spend big? It helps but money can't buy you silverware. Look at Liverpool, 10 points behind the leaders going into the Christmas fixtures having splurged £446million on new signings, twice eclipsing the Premier League record first on , then on Alexander Isak. Although not an insurmountable gap, it looks a tall order.