Manuel Akanji is hoping that Manchester City can prove their class to crown a “perfect season.” The English Premier League champions are not only fighting to retain the title they won on the final day last season, but face Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals and Sheffield United in an FA Cup last-four encounter at Wembley.
A treble would cap a dream debut campaign for defender Akanji, who joined last summer from Borussia Dortmund for £15 million. “That’s what we are working for, to always be in the competitions and win the trophies,” he told Arab News in an exclusive interview. “We are still in the FA Cup, the Champions League and the Premier League — and I hope we can win it all in the end.
We want the perfect season, yes. “We take it game by game and first we have got to focus on Southampton on Saturday and then we are looking at the Bayern game and we will see.
We are on a good run now.” After the league trip to Southampton, City host Bayern in the first leg of their last-eight tie on Tuesday.