This is a warning to Man City and Arsenal: Liverpool could dominate for years ...Middle East

Has there ever been more excuses made for why a team has won a title, rather focusing on what the champions have achieved?

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.

As though Liverpool’s 20th top-flight trophy has been handed to them, neatly gift-wrapped and with a delicate bow on top.

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.

No, this one has been handed to them with a dainty pat on the head, apparently.

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.

Speak to many of the fans who clambered on rooftops outside Anfield and stumbled gleefully through the stadium’s nearby streets celebrating on Sunday, they would tell you this team can dominate for years.

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.

Former Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart offered the most cutting assessment of pundits.

“I don’t see anything crazy,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live. “Do I see them dominating? No.

“It’s not a team that blows people away, it’s a top, top team. They’ve [been] immaculate this season, but we all know that it’s all going to start again next season.

“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’.”

What more, out of interest, does one need to see before plugging in the seatbelt?

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?

A new manager who has just outsmarted Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta, without buying any of the players he wanted?

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.

By how much more and how much more comfortably did Liverpool need to win this title to overwhelming convince this isn’t an unexpected Premier League eclipse?

The biggest title-winning margin belongs to the Manchester City team of 2017-18, who won the league by 19 points.

Liverpool currently lead the table by 15 points. And it isn’t inconceivable that in the final four games of the season they equal or surpass that. They still have Arsenal to play at Anfield, remember.

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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We’re talking monster teams with mega players: Kevin De Bruyne, David Silva, Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure, Fernandinho, Vincent Kompany, Ilkay Gundogan, Salah, Sadio Mane, Van Dijk, and James Milner.

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.

The Manchester United title-winners of 1999-00 – Treble winners the previous season – which had in the squad Roy Keane, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Jaap Stam, and Gary Neville, are in the top 10, with 91 points.

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.

Are there other metrics to assess quite how dominant Slot’s Liverpool have been that are more palatable? Different metrics to contrast and compare? What if we take a look at how long they led the table?

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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