Nobody has put up a serious challenge, we have been told, frequently. It was the only off year Manchester City have had in a decade.
Not by putting together a 26-game unbeaten run, or losing only twice, or practically having the title wrapped up by February and confirming it with four games to spare.
Liverpool fans erupted inside Anfield after watching their side win the title (Photo: Getty)
Oh, and haven’t they been so lucky with injuries? Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk have miraculously stayed fit and not missed a league game.
To outsiders, looking in, it has sounded more like this is a quirk of nature, an anomaly in the system, a glitch in the matrix.
“I don’t see anything crazy,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live. “Do I see them dominating? No.
“Plans are being made. Of course, I feel they’re going to be up there, but there’s not enough to say, ‘Strap in, this is the Arne Slot era’.”
Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk have signed new contracts at Liverpool (Photo: Getty)The two best and most experienced players staying for two more seasons? A main midfield three to rival any other, no older than 27? Trent Alexander-Arnold leaving for Real Madrid but a thrilling full-back offering a different profile already in their squad offering a different profile and ready to replace him?
Hart wasn’t the only one: others listed teams that would ensure there would be no repeat, including City, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea and Newcastle United.
The biggest title-winning margin belongs to the Manchester City team of 2017-18, who won the league by 19 points.
That same season, City amassed a record 100 points. Liverpool can still hit 94. They have won seven of their last eight league games, during which they have apparently been having a wobble.
Even if they only just break the 90-point barrier, it will place them in the top 10 of all-time points tallies. Which is a heady list, dominated at the top by the Liverpool and City, Klopp vs Guardiola teams of the late 2010s, scoring 97 (Liverpool), 98 (City), 99 (Liverpool), and that City century.
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Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea side of 2004-05 sit beneath them, with 95 – a team that included Didier Drogba, Arjen Robben, Frank Lampard, John Terry and Petr Cech.
As are Arsenal’s Invincibles. That side, managed by Arsene Wenger no less, was pretty good – in it were Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Dennis Bergkamp. They got 90 points.
By the end of the season, Liverpool will have been top for 234 days. Only Liverpool’s last title-winners, topping it for 346 days, and City, in 2017-18 leading the table for 240 days – when, again, they got 100 points – have bettered that in the past decade.
Having written Liverpool and their new manager off at the start of the season – as I and most others did – it would be foolish now not to strap in, and see where Slot can take them.
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