Pep Guardiola is certain Manchester City will be even better next season.
The Premier League champions have followed up last year's record-breaking success with the strongest title defence for a decade and will claim an unprecedented domestic treble if they win their next two games .
Many of the squad are committed to long-term contracts with Bernardo Silva, Raheem Sterling and Aymeric Laporte among the stars to have signed new deals this year, and the manager is also tied to the Etihad until 2021.
Asked about further improvement next season, Guardiola has no doubts.
"We will be better," he said. "Next season we will be stronger. I am sure.
"We will be stronger. We will be better."
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While ultimately success of the season will depend on whether they are able to see off Liverpool's challenge on the final day of the Premier League, City's coach has already seen enough from his squad to claim improvement on last season.
As they prepare to face a Brighton team that is expected to be difficult to break down, the Blues will get another chance to show how much better they are now at penetrating defences.
"It is difficult to say [how we have improved] but we understand what we want to do quicker," said Guardiola. "At the end we don’t change too much our patterns, our way we want to play so that is why everyone is more comfortable in what we want to do, in how want to defend," he said.
"I think we attack much better. Teams when they face us that have a low low block, and incredible low block, that means 11 playing in the box so how we attack them, we concede not too many counter-attacks, the set-pieces we defend well.
"In general, especially in the Premier League we were so consistent. In the Champions League we were a little bit more vulnerable, for the quality of the opponents and the tension of the desire to do well but I think that is the process.
"We have done quite similar things to last season but we repeat every three days so at the end we do many things better."
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