Only Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool can stop the domination of Manchester City in England as per Gary Neville

Former Manchester United defender and Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville claims that only Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp can stop Manchester City from further domination in the Premier League.

City have won five of the last six league titles, the anomaly being Liverpool in the 2019/20 season. The latter have come within a point of the former on two of the other five occasions, but Pep Guardiola’s men got the job done.

Klopp and his men have been so unlucky that despite amassing 90+ points in three of the last five seasons, they have only one league title to show for it. They won the Champions League, went to the final on two occasions and won other competitions. What it shows is that although the Reds have been underwhelming this season, they are the only ones capable of challenging City.

Here’s what Neville said on that front (h/t Sky Sports):

“At this moment, the one team which has proved that [it can challenge City] over the past five or six years are Liverpool.

“Arsenal have run City close this year but the only team which l can say at the moment has demonstrated they can go close to Pep Guardiola’s City are Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool.

“I know they have dropped well below those standards this season but [they can] get back to those standards next season because they have proven they can do that before.”

While Neville is not the most loved man on Liverpool shores, what he is saying here is absolutely right. Glad that someone on that platform has recognised the work Klopp has done at Anfield despite spending far less than Guardiola in transfer windows.

With no Champions League football for the Reds next season, it might just help them to focus on challenging for the league. They can rotate the squad for the Thursday night games and play the best XI for all the league games to win most of them and breach the 90-point mark once again.

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For that to happen, Klopp would need to sign 3-4 top-class players in the coming window. Rebooting the midfield and training the new forwards to play the way the likes of Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino used to play with Mohamed Salah will be vital too.