Liverpool want the quadruple. Manchester City seek another treble. Phil Foden, Virgil van Dijk and Declan Rice can secure themselves a double.
One of the trio can be a Premier League champion and Player of the Year in 2024.
The next two league match days will go a long way to influencing who wins, with City facing Liverpool and Arsenal in successive games. All three player of the year contenders are the main contributors driving their sides forward, the consistently outstanding performers in a high level run of form which shows no sign of stopping.
Whoever emerges on top over the next few weeks will have won a personal battle against their direct rival. They would prefer to win the war.
To have two clubs fighting for the title at the end of the season is the Premier League’s dream. To have three is paradise for those wishing to present English football as the most competitive and entertaining in the world.
We rarely have this situation in the Premier League and it should be savoured, with all three clubs hopefully remaining in contention until the end. It is a tribute to the way in which Liverpool and Arsenal are run that for all City’s financial advantage, their title wins have been prevented from becoming an annual procession.
What makes it better is two of those involved in the triangle which will determine who become champions will be focal points of Gareth Southgate’s European championship bid.
For Foden and Rice, this is already a golden period, the duo already aware how it feels to lift a major trophy.
With good reason, most people still believe City will retain their crown. If they were to lose to Liverpool and Arsenal, it would make it more difficult but you could still see them recovering. By contrast, if Arsenal and Liverpool lose to City, the case for them to retrieve the situation is less compelling. It is far from all-or-nothing for Liverpool this Sunday, or for Arsenal at the Etihad on March 31, but they know from bitter experience how few points City drop in the run-in.
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***Jamie Carragher for The Telegraph:***
Liverpool want the quadruple. Manchester City seek another treble. Phil Foden, Virgil van Dijk and Declan Rice can secure themselves a double.
One of the trio can be a Premier League champion and Player of the Year in 2024.
The next two league match days will go a long way to influencing who wins, with City facing Liverpool and Arsenal in successive games. All three player of the year contenders are the main contributors driving their sides forward, the consistently outstanding performers in a high level run of form which shows no sign of stopping.
Whoever emerges on top over the next few weeks will have won a personal battle against their direct rival. They would prefer to win the war.
To have two clubs fighting for the title at the end of the season is the Premier League’s dream. To have three is paradise for those wishing to present English football as the most competitive and entertaining in the world.
We rarely have this situation in the Premier League and it should be savoured, with all three clubs hopefully remaining in contention until the end. It is a tribute to the way in which Liverpool and Arsenal are run that for all City’s financial advantage, their title wins have been prevented from becoming an annual procession.
What makes it better is two of those involved in the triangle which will determine who become champions will be focal points of Gareth Southgate’s European championship bid.
For Foden and Rice, this is already a golden period, the duo already aware how it feels to lift a major trophy.
With good reason, most people still believe City will retain their crown. If they were to lose to Liverpool and Arsenal, it would make it more difficult but you could still see them recovering. By contrast, if Arsenal and Liverpool lose to City, the case for them to retrieve the situation is less compelling. It is far from all-or-nothing for Liverpool this Sunday, or for Arsenal at the Etihad on March 31, but they know from bitter experience how few points City drop in the run-in.
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So will spurs, I can’t quite remember the exact fixture list but we play all 3 in the space of 4 games towards the end of the season I think.
Narrative wise, one of them will probably win player of the year but they shouldn’t.
Rodri has been City’s best and most important player.
Odegaard has been Arsenal’s best player.
Salah has been Liverpool’s best player
City- 1st
Liverpool/arsenal- interchange 2nd/3rd
Sleeping on Gødegaard
Spitty woke up on Thursday morning thinking “What am I gonna write my Friday article about” and went with this.
Pure rubbish.
That’s a weird sex dream
Carragher is an idiot gobshite. Massively annoying and on in the media far too much.
KDB and Haaland might chime in
Jamie mate stfu
Bollocks. This is a game of football, not snooker that individuals will decide the title race. 🤦🏻♂️
Darwizzy ‘La Pantera’ Nunezinho, Agent of Chaos will decide the title race when he goes the rest of the season with at least 2 goals a game.