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Publication date: Monday, September 7, 2020 11:00 AM
Jamie Carragher believes that the chasing group is ready to close the gap with Liverpool at the top of the Premier League, but suspects that only one team is capable of stopping the march of champions Jurgen Klopp.
Talking to TEAMtalk in a Sky sports event, Carragher, Liverpool legend suggests Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City are the only team that has what it takes to dethrone a team that finished 18 points ahead of them in an embarrassingly one-sided title race last season.
So while Carragher calls for the Manchester giants and the London trio of Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal to change the Premier League narrative, he hopes the top two will remain in a league of their own.
“I’m a Liverpool player and I want to see them win the league again, but maybe not in the way they did last season,” Carragher said.
“We want and need to see a competitive title race. I want the other teams to get closer to Liverpool because we need it to be more competitive.
“We don’t want any team to be 20 or 30 points ahead and although I want Liverpool to win the league, I would like to see them in the tight race for the title and win it on the final day of the season in an exciting way. , going all the way and with fewer points than they got last season.
“If one or two top teams get 99 and 100 points each season, it means there are fewer points to go around, so I’d like to see the total points needed to win the Premier League go down to 90 points this season. that would mean we will have a more interesting title race.
“That could happen as I hope all the teams trying to chase Liverpool do better than last season, but I only see two teams in contention for the title and those will be the top two in the last two years.
“The chasing group has to close the gap with Liverpool and that is why teams like Chelsea have been spending money in the transfer market to try to make that happen, but Liverpool and City are way ahead of the rest and I don’t see that change.” .
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Liverpool, meanwhile, will not allow Georginio Wijnaldum to join Barcelona for a reduced fee this summer, amid claims that the Reds had given up trying to retain him.
Wijnaldum has refused to extend his contract at Anfield, prompting speculation about the 29-year-old’s future.
The midfielder has been heavily mentioned as a Barça target since Ronald Koeman took office. Sports world claimed that Koeman had given the green light to the deal and, in fact, “supports” the transfer.
Sport further supported those claims. They say that the The possibility that Wijnaldum arrives at the Camp Nou ‘begins to take shape’ after Koeman made the signing a ‘priority’.
Indeed, Koeman’s Dutch teammate has become a ‘non-negotiable goal’ for the former Everton manager.
And now that deal seems even closer after a great claim made by Algemeen Dagblad.
According to the Rotterdam-based newspaper, Wijnaldum’s agent is “close to an agreement with Barcelona on a deal.”
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