Former star Steve McManaman believes Liverpool deserve to be classified as the greatest team in English history if they manage to win the Champions League title at Real Madrid’s expense on Saturday.

For Steve, who played for Liverpool between 1990 and 1999 and won the Cup and the League Cup with him before moving to Real Madrid, in particular to contribute to winning the Champions League twice and in the local league like them, “Liverpool is doing well. to win three titles with 92 points (in the league) and playing every possible match, I think that would be the greatest achievement,” says Agence France-Presse.

The 50-year-old, who ended his career at Manchester City in 2005, continued: “I think they should be ranked first (as the greatest English team). Achieving 92 points in any other season would have been enough to win the title. If Liverpool had scored 50 points, I would not have been able to handle that statement.”

The former international midfielder is aware of the difficulty of classifying the team as the greatest club in England’s history, but insists no one can beat Liverpool if they manage to win their third title of the season in Paris on Saturday.

“Among the teams that scored a hat-trick, everyone considers Manchester United the best team in 1999 because they won the Champions League and the Premier League. This is an amazing achievement. League Cup quarter-final.

He concluded: “When Manchester City achieved this in 2019, they were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Even when Liverpool achieved it in the eighties (1984) with this amazing team, they were knocked out in the fourth round of the Champions League. FA Cup against Brighton.