Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville has said that he can’t see Liverpool challenging for the Premier League title next season.
The Reds defeated Manchester City 3-0 in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday night and the win gives Jurgen Klopp’s side a commanding lead heading into the return leg at the Etihad Stadium next week.
Liverpool won the Champions League in 2005 but they have famously never won a Premier League title since the league’s inception in 1992.
The club’s last league title came back in 1990 and Neville does not think that they will win a league title with this squad as long as they are competing in the Champions League.
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The tweet from his official Twitter account prompted an assessment from another user that Neville’s beliefs stem from his jealousy of Liverpool’s rise in comparison to his former club’s decline, despite United currently sitting in second place behind league leaders Manchester City on the Premier League table.
Neville immediately responded to the remark by claiming that he’d be worried if ‘Liverpool could actually keep a half decent player’ following the departures of Philippe Coutinho, Luis Suarez and Raheem Sterling in recent seasons.
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said that his side beat the best team in the world on Wednesday at Anfield but that they must now ‘work like hell’ if they are to advance into the semi-finals.
“We beat the best team in the world so that’s a really good performance,” said Liverpool boss Klopp.
“It was good tonight, but I am not interested in being good. In this competition, it is about going to the next round, and we are not in the next round. Let’s talk about it after the next game.
“We will really have to work there again like hell.
“Years ago, I played with Dortmund at Real Madrid and we lost 3-0. Afterwards, everybody told me it was done. I was really angry about it when they said it.
“At home, we won 2-0 with six or seven changes in the team – and everyone who saw the game knows we should have won 5-0, 100 per cent, without a shadow of a doubt. I know these things can happen.
“Today it was 3-0 at half-time and nobody was in the dressing room dancing around and celebrating the half-time result. Now it is exactly the same situation. This tie is 190 minutes or so, that’s it.”
