Manchester City's historic domestic treble is a bigger achievement than winning the Champions League, according to Pep Guardiola.
City became the first side to claim a clean sweep of the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup with a 6-0 win over Watford at Wembley.
The Blues were in devastating form to claim a place in the record books, with Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling each scoring twice, while David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne were also on the scoresheet.
Guardiola's ambition to conquer the Champions League with City remains unfulfilled, but he believes this achievement is even tougher than European glory and he hailed one of the best seasons of his decade long managerial career.
"It’s one of the best seasons I’ve ever experienced as a manager. I wouldn’t say the best but one of them," the Catalan beamed.
"Ten months, playing all competitions, and no team has done this in this country. One team will repeat sooner rather than later. It’s the consistency.
"I love the Champions League but to do this is more difficult than the Champions League. For our organisation, all working here, they deserve all the compliments.
"It’s not easy every 10 months being there because when you have a bad night you’re out."
Having secured back-to-back Premier League titles with a win at Brighton six days ago, Guardiola felt his side were lacking in energy in the early stages against the Hornets.
They could have gone behind had Ederson not denied Roberto Pereyra on a one-v-one in the early stages.
"We were a little bit of lacking in energy today. But we keep the energy for the right time," Guardiola said.
"Ederson’s save… the game could’ve been different."
City have claimed their place in history in style over the last couple of weeks, adding this historic FA Cup scoreline to their 4-1 demolition over Brighton to claim the Premier League tite.
The seasons has taken its toll on Guardiola, but he intends to celebrate the achievement over the summer before beginning preparations for another assault on silverware in 2019/20.
"I’m not fresh. But normally when you win one title, for the last action, you cannot forget we won 4-1 and then 6-0," he said.
"These kind of things you celebrate with calm over the summer. “Wow, we have done incredible.” The weeks coming we will do that, you are happier.
"[Then] we’ll start again and it’ll all be forgotten."
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