Together: Treble Winners

This documentary proves how hard it is to motivate a group of individuals to gel and perform as a whole. Those who said "Pep won't make it in the Premier League" and those that are now saying "I could manage that team with an infinite amount of money" need to watch this. They would very quickly learn a thing or two. The documentary is about keeping faith in yourselves and your team mates. Trusting and believing in your manager and your peers and never giving up. It's about friendship and family. It goes beyond football. It's fantastic to see the bond that is made between individuals from across the globe and how they succeed in the Man City melting pot. Great TV.

Was so excited to get a behind the scenes look into the team but this series felt largely like an Instagram reel of greatest hits. Could have spent more time with players in their everyday lives, the best parts were seeing snippets of Foden with his boys, Grealish with his dogs. Great seeing Pep at work in the locker room but they could have interviewed the chefs to talk about how they prepare the nutrition for the team. The series Arsenal did went more in depth and I really enjoyed that series. The scenes were just too short and felt very rushed even though there were plenty of episodes. Spend more time talking about Manchester Derby not just select clips of some outstanding game footage. This really could have been great but I didn't walk away getting any new perspectives on a historic season.

Manchester City's treble winning season is historic. This series gets into the BTS and challenges overcomed by the world champions! Good watch even for non-football viewers - a great tale of sporting achievement in itself. It explains the strategic and tacticals side of the game - all parise to Pep Guardiola, their manager and the focal point of this series. It's a great docuseries for management lessons - portraying real life events where team bonding was most crucial and tough decisions had to be made regarding some players. Manchester City is one of the best football teams currently and this also gives a good context for upcoming matches.

As Episode 1 of "Together: TR3BLE Winners" (2024 release; 6 episodes ranging between 42 and 48 min) opens, it is "24 May 2022" as Haaland makes a decision which team he will join, and the choice is Manchester City. We then go to "22 August 2022" as Pep addresses the players about the upcoming season's challenges and opportunities... At this point we are less than 10 minutes into Episode 1.

Couple of comments: this mini-series is aimed primarily at ManCity fans, to (re)celebrate and remember the extraordinary season that was 22-23. ManCity has fans around the world, and I venture to say that most of them will never have a chance to see the team play live (living in the US, I am one of them--although I did tour the Etihad Stadium in September, 2019). The best bits of this mini-series are the "behind closed doors" scenes. Watch how Pep addresses his players both in great moments (after trashing ManUnited 6-3: "You were brilliant but I push you yo be more perfect") and in low moments (after 2-0 to a low-ranked Southampton that would soon be relegated). In fact I would say that Pep is the central figure of the entire mini=series, and to see him at work is worth every minute of this mini-series. There are also a lot of fun scenes among the players (watch Halland make fun of KDB's fashion sense, to which KDB responds "I don't care"). Perhaps the biggest surprise for me was that the one player who shows the most leadership is not KDB, or Halland, or Silva. No, it is in fact Rodri, who time and again steps up in the locker room addressing his teammates.

"Together: TR3BLE Winners" recently started streaming on Netflix, just as the Premier League, the FA Cup, and the Champions League of 23-24 are "rounding third and heading for home". ManCity is still battling on all three fronts again this year. Can they pull off another treble? If you are a ManCity fan, I'd readily suggest you check this out and draw your own conclusion. If you are a football fan but not a Cityzens supporter, I'd give it a shot with the 1st episode and see if you can warm up for it. I'll be honest, if this was a mini-series about Arsenal or Liverpool, I'd pass...

If you want a really good Man City documentary, watch Together on their youtube channel for free.

They tried to recapture the magic, but the first two episodes are unwatchable, it's pointless marketing nonsense, there's very little understanding or appreciation for the game or the talent that goes in. This feels like it was made by the marketing department, no one else.

The worst of it is that they are trying to make everyone like it, and the result is just bland. It's not horrible, but as a fan of the game, I really don't want to listen to some journalist explaining what Champion's League is for a full minute.

All the things that worked in the original are out of tune here. That was a proper documentary, although it's on Youtube.

At first, this feels like content. Well-made and well-polished, but still just lifeless content, not a documentary.

Around the third episode, they tone down the nonsense and get back to football. There are still issues, there's still commentary from the two "reporters" who get plenty of airtime to say absolutely nothing of substance, but it's a mild annoyance.

The rest is about the football, the team, Pep's talks - all the things I loved about the original Together.