Liverpool will mount a title challenge next season after a disappointing 2022/23 campaign, however, Trent Alexander-Arnold has warned the Reds to be ‘near perfect’ to beat Manchester City to the Premier League title.
Jurgen Klopp’s side finished 5th in the top-flight – missing out on Champions League qualification, and were 22 points behind the Treble winners Man City.
The Merseysiders have been active in the summer transfer window and have already signed Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai to bolster their midfield. More signings are expected as Klopp looks to get the club back to competing for titles again.
“I think as a club it’s necessary to be honest. You know, we do respect every competition we play in but if you’d asked us this time last year, would you want to finish fifth, we’d have all said no and same again now,” Alexander-Arnold told Sky Sports.
“Would we want to finish fifth next season? No. We want to be winning the league, we want to be challenging and being in title races and in Champions League football so to not be in that next season is disappointing.
“We know how to win the league, we know how to challenge City and go toe to toe with them and you need to be near perfect throughout the season so for us that’s where our heads are at.”
The England international added: “It’s consistency. Throughout the season we had good results against the big teams but we dropped points and sloppy points away from home especially, so these are the things that we’ve all naturally thought about that we need to correct.”
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