Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has insisted that his side can come back again and fight for Premier League titles once more after Liverpool moved level with the Old Trafford club on 20 top-flight league victories.
With four games left to play this season, Liverpool has five more points than Manchester United and Everton combined — with the Reds’ rivals sitting in 14th and 15th place in the table respectively. Amorim took over from Erik ten Hag, who was fired in October.
“The first thing is to focus on ourselves and not the other teams,” he said. “The next thing is to be really honest: we are in different levels in this moment.
“But then explain that everything can change and I remember when I started seeing the Premier League, it was opposite. So everything can change. We need to focus on step by step, not trying to think too far ahead.
“We have an ultimate goal: that is winning the Premier League. Again, I am not crazy. I know that is not going to be next year, but we are trying to build something.
“The small things are really important, and we did that during this year. We need to improve next year. But I know that is important to the fans — we know that — but we need to be honest with them and to work hard every day.”
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“Very, very happy, of course,” Arne Slot told the media after the title was confirmed. “But to a certain extent also quite unreal because you work so hard for this moment to happen and when it then does happen, it needs some time for you to truly feel it. But the fans were so happy that it didn’t take us long, didn’t take me long to understand what we’ve achieved together this season.
“The only moment I was emotional today was when we arrived at the stadium — to see what it meant for the fans, what it meant for these people. For us to have a chance of winning it felt really special but immediately it also felt like, ‘We still have to do it’.
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“But I think everybody who was inside that bus felt that if the fans are with us, like they are, then it’s impossible for us to lose this game of football. During the game, after the game, it’s been incredible how the support of the fans were and how our players played. Special to be part of this day.”
Liverpool.com says: Manchester United is too big (and too rich) not to come back into contention at some point but it is going to take a minimum of five years of good decisions to get the Old Trafford side anywhere close. The chances of that happening, on recent evidence, seem pretty slim.
