City must win more to be the best: Giggs

PEP Guardiola’s Manchester City have been told by Ryan Giggs they need to win multiple titles before they can be considered the greatest Premier League side ever.

City now need just six more top-flight victories from their final 11 fixtures to guarantee they will be crowned champions having blitzed their rivals by dropping only nine points so far.

That form, coupled with the aesthetically-pleasing style Guardiola’s side have produced, has led to suggestions his team could be thought of as the best in Premier League history.

Praise: Wales boss Ryan Giggs

Yet former Manchester United winger Giggs, the division’s most decorated player, insists City have to back up their “wonder season” with further titles if they want recognition alongside United’s 1999 treble-winning squad, Arsenal’s Invincibles and Jose Mourinho’s first Chelsea side.

Speaking in Monaco in his role as an ambassador for Laureus, Giggs said: “At the moment they’re up there because of the performances and the results that they’ve shown this year.

“I think to compare them to ourselves, Arsenal, Chelsea, you have to win multiple titles, you have to be consistent, not just one wonder season, which they are having.

“But the way that they play this year, they’re capable of doing that.

“It’s up to the other clubs, the likes of United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham to do better next year and to challenge and see how they handle that.” FORWARD Sadio Mane believes Liverpool’s power lies in their team ethic and thinks any player would want to be part of Jurgen Klopp’s squad.

Just one defeat in their last 19 Premier League matches has lifted the side into a position to challenge Manchester United for second place, while they are virtually guaranteed a Champions League quarter-final place with a 5-0 first-leg lead over Porto.

Klopp’s side have scored 103 goals in all competitions this season with their forward line of Mane, 31-goal Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino scoring for

Excited: Sadio Mane

fun. “The team spirit is good and the confidence is here so I think we are in a good way,” Mane said.

“Every single player is always very happy playing with each other.

“We always try to help each other and we work as a team.

“I think that is the team’s power and the team’s purpose. Every single player would love to play in this team.

“We are lucky boys and we are going to keep trying to work hard and give our best when we take our places on the pitch to continue to try and win the games. I can sense that the club is moving in the right direction. There were a couple of difficult years at Liverpool a while back but those things happen to every single club in the world.

“At the moment we are in a good way so everything is possible. I think we have improved a lot in the past few months.

“We know that on our day we can beat any team in the world.”