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VINCENT KOMPANY has warned Manchester City’s record-breakers that they will have to get even better if they want to successfully defend the title.

City have raised the Premier League bar this season – most points ever, most goals, most wins.

And Pep Guardiola’s team can become men of

Hughes (right) does not believe champions City can be talked about in the same breath as United until they have dominated English football as his former club did under Sir Alex Ferguson.

The Southampton manager, whose side face Pep Guardiola’s recordbreakers today, said: “It is still early days for them in terms of their standing in European and world football.

“The name of Man City does not resonate like the Real Madrids, Barcelonas and Man Uniteds of this world, yet.

“I say ‘yet’ because if they continue in the same vein and have the resources to go into the market like they have done in recent times, then the century today by beating Southampton to move to exactly 100 points.

But Kompany (right) – who also lifted the title for City in 2012 and 2014 – insists that any talk of a power shift in Manchester will be pointless if the Blues fail to push on again.

The City skipper said: “We’ve got 97 points now, and as that tally has never been done by anyone clearly they will become a huge power in world football.

“But it takes time and it is only the early stages.”

United legend Hughes was in charge of City at the start of Sheikh Mansour’s Etihad revolution.

And Sparky added: “When I became manager of Man City they were just a mid-table Premier League team. What is that, eight years ago?

“They have come a huge distance in a short space of time, so you can’t start saying they are the best there has ever been because you need to do it over a longer period.

“They have the potential and resources to be able to affect the top end of the Premier League and European trophies for 10, 15 years.

“And they could well become the before, I suppose our target has been achieved in one sense.

“But, beginning from now, we have to set up properly for next season.

“Even more important than the 100 points is that we don’t want to finish the season on a bad note.

“Nothing will take away what we have achieved already, but we just want to carry on. With anything in