Jamie Carragher says one thing is especially annoying him about Man City from a Liverpool point of view
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Liverpool were arguably affected more than any other club by Manchester City’s ‘systematic’ breaking of financial rules between 2009 and 2018.City look set to have the book thrown at them by the Premier League after being found guilty of the majority of charges against them, with the possibility that the Citizens could have some of their league titles stripped or even suffer expulsion from the division.Whatever happens to them, though, it will not change the fact that they effectively stole from Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, who were forced to battle with the team City had built on the back of what was essentially cheating. And although the allegations are pertaining to a period in which Klopp’s team had not yet emerged, Jamie Carragher says that City’s ability to build a deeper squad than Liverpool’s meant that the Reds could not compete on an even footing.
Should Liverpool be awarded that 2013/14 title? 🤔 We are probably the club who has been impacted the most… Brendan Rodgers Carragher frustrated by Liverpool’s 2018/19 near-missCity’s rule-breaking – at least according to this set of charges – ended in 2018, just ahead of the 18/19 campaign in which they ultimately won the Premier League by just one point.Liverpool were brilliant throughout that campaign, winning the Champions League at the end of it, but without City, the Reds would have been unbeaten Premier League champions as well.Klopp and co lost only once during the whole season – away at the Etihad in January 2018 – and lost out despite recording a 97 point total. “If I look at it from a Liverpool point of view and think of that Jurgen Klopp team, Jurgen Klopp’s team missed out on winning a league and being invincible.
The only game they lost was to Man City, 2-1.” READ MORE: Why Jordan Henderson deserves to be mentioned as one of Liverpool’s most influential players ever“You think of, we still talk about Arsenal now, and forever, they were invincible. Liverpool were one game away from that and the frustrating thing, and again, I’ve just got my Liverpool hat on, what I’m saying is when you think of that time, Man City had the edge on Liverpool because they had more players.“Liverpool basically picked the same 11 every week.