After a Pep Guardiola inspired trophy-laden decade at the Etihad Stadium, it is now all change for Manchester City as the club prepare for a new era under Enzo Maresca.
Guardiola ended his tenure in Manchester with a domestic double, beating Arsenal in the League Cup final and then Maresca's former club Chelsea in the FA Cup final in May.
Those were his 19th and 20th trophies at the Etihad, having also won six Premier League titles, three FA Cups, five League Cups and the Champions League.
So, there are some rather big shoes to fill from the perspective of Maresca, who spent the 2022-23 season as one of Guardiola's assistants.
It is a dawn of a new era on the pitch too, as John Stones and Bernardo Silva ended their incredibly successful spells with the club to join Inter and Real Madrid respectively on free transfers.
Midfield stalwart Rodri has also left the club, joining Barcelona.
Meanwhile City splashed the cash to sign Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest and they remain linked to Enzo Fernández and Ayyoub Bouaddi.
Add to it the fact that City have now gone two seasons without lifting the Premier League, an almost unacceptable amount of time after the standards set by Guardiola, having lost out to Liverpool and Arsenal respectively and this is a hugely important season for Maresca and City, which did not get off to the perfect start in the Community Shield when losing 3-0 to Mikel Arteta's men.
Top scorer
Barring injury or one of the biggest drop-offs in form the Premier League has ever seen, it would be remarkable if Erling Haaland is not Manchester City's top scorer this season.
The Norwegian had an excellent World Cup and has scored at least 22 goals in each of his four seasons in the Premier League, including 27 last season.
Under Guardiola, the team all played for Haaland to be the main goalscorer and while it was actually former City midfielder Cole Palmer who thrived the most under Maresca at Chelsea, Nicolas Jackson had several chances, with which the 26-year-old simply will not be as wasteful with.
Breakout player
With Manchester City, the breakout player almost feels like a not applicable category this season, with a squad that is largely pretty settled.
New signing Anderson surely has to be considered someone who has already broken through considering his form with Nottingham Forest and then at the World Cup, while in all honesty, the signing of 17-year-old Jeremy Monga from Leicester feels like one for the future.
That leaves us with a potentially dubious breakout player in Abdukodir Khusanov.
He probably broke through in the second half of last season really but this could be the year where he really makes the centre back position his own when everyone is fit.
Who is it a make or break season for?
There can surely be nobody who doubts the ability that Phil Foden has but last season was one in which he struggled to showcase it.
Foden became a bit-part player for the vast majority of last season and could only muster seven goals in 33 Premier League appearances.
That saw him miss out on a spot at the World Cup but, with a renewed Manchester City contract and a proper preseason, this could be the season in which Foden finds his form again - if he does, he can be hard to stop.
What would be a success?
The standards set at Manchester City even before the Guardiola era began are so high that not winning the Premier League is considered a failure.
That will be no different now even without Guardiola and having lost their club captain in Bernardo Silva.
Maresca will know what he has walked into and will know that he has a job on his hands to overcome Arsenal, now that they have got the monkey off their backs after finally ending their 22-year drought for a league title.
But even so, City have a squad that is capable of winning everything and fans will only call the season a success if they are back lifting the trophy again come May.
Biggest concern?
City have been in safe hands for some time under Guardiola and now that feeling has gone.
Maresca had success with Chelsea in the Club World Cup and Conference League, but his league form was always at least a tad shaky, and he is clearly not as tactically astute as his predecessor yet.
Of course, he has at his disposal a squad far better than anything he has worked with before which will help but the concern does remain whether Maresca (or anyone for that matter) can live up to the ridiculous standards set by Guardiola.
Prediction
Second. If Maresca gets things going from the off, City could topple Arsenal but in his first season at the Etihad, that seems like a big ask.