Michael Owen was reprimanded by Virgil van Dijk for claiming that this season is not really special for Liverpool, despite the success of the Premier League title and Arne Slot agrees with Captain
Arne Slot has returned to every suggestion that Liverpool is not enough to win the Premier League title this season. The Reds look at a new step closer to their 20th crown as champions of England when they face Fulham on Sunday.
But Captain Virgil van Dijk had to correct former Liverpool -striker Michael Owen in an interview this week after the victory over Everton. Owen said that the Reds built up the season into “something very special” into a Champions League exit in the last 16 and a Carabao Cup Final Loss where Van Dijk was out of the exception.
The Dutch boss said: “Let me understand well, Virgil was a bit frustrated because it was not enough to win the Premier League only? Michael (Owen) played for us, right?
“So he is aware of the fact that we have once the competition in 35 years? There is your answer. Once you can win the competition with this club, then, Phew, nothing else matters. If you do it ten times in a row, I could understand that people say:” Oh but you only win the Premier League “.
“If [Manchester] City only won the Premier League, then I could understand people who said: “It's not a good season for the city.” But if you can compete in this club and let alone that you would win, then it is a strange question to ask in my opinion. If Virgil also has this opinion, I agree with him. '
At this stage, Liverpool only needs 13 points of eight games with Arsenal in the rear -view mirror. Defending champions City are fighting it out in the Race for Champions League qualification.
The ease with which the Reds win the competition has led to suggestions that this is not the best competition this season. Slot, such as Pep Guardiola, points out how the will of Nottingham Forest and the opponents of Sunday Fulham insist on Europe, while City ends the Titeltempo why this competition is actually stronger than ever.
He said: “I think the competition is better than ever, that is what people always say. That is what I hear a lot, because the power in general gets better. I think Pep said there will be no team, as long as he lives it will get more than 100 points and wins the competition four times in a row, because so many more teams have so many more good players.
“I think he even said what I said all year round, that all clubs, even some who fight relegation, have some players who can play for City, for Arsenal, for us, for Chelsea and for these types of teams.
“The reason why teams you would expect to have more points is not because the competition has become stronger. That is probably the reason why it is such a compliment for us that we have those points right now.”
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