If last year's performance is the benchmark, City are the better side.
To be clear, Liverpool are better this year, and have done incredibly in the league. The table doesn't lie.
But until they match the awesome record of this City side over the last two years, no one can seriously claim they're the best domestic side evah.
And pool aren't going to claim that domestic treble this year.
Come back in two years time, if they've actually won a few trophies.
Mark Twain's line about 'lies, damned lies and statistics' comes to mind. Where were City in the eighties and nineties, when first Liverpool then Utd were in their pomp, and more successful, season after season, than City have been to date? Winning nothing and getting relegated down to Division Two, for a start. They've got a lot of catching up to do filling that trophy cabinet. Given recent history, with no team able to establish the same level of sustained dominance as twenty or thirty years ago, it will be some time. It will take an extraordinary collapse by Liverpool, and a significant improvement in their own performances, to retain the title again. They've yet to deliver in Europe (though they do have a European title, only fifty years ago....). Yes, it could be their year to finally lift the European Cup (in any of its various names), it remains to be seen…
I'm not entirely sure how any team, regardless of resources, could have fielded a full strength side in the League Cup and the Club World Championship, less than 24 hours apart on two different continents, without the aid of a time machine. City would have preferred they had that dilemma, not Liverpool. The record points total, as impressive as it was, in no small part due to the weakness of the principal opposition. 19 points over second place, 25 over fourth. The title defence was a greater achievement, because they were pushed all the way. One draw or defeat in those last fourteen games and the title was going elsewhere. And even then, there was a bit of a gap between those two and the rest…
Oh yes, on the FA Cup.... Come back when you've held it for seven years like Pompey did
Pompey, as it happens, are still working on a successful defence of a domestic title- the EFL Trophy- and in contention for another (League One, to go with the League Two title of 2017). This makes us more successful than Liverpool, domestically. Yeah right, I think I'd rather have the CL win, Club World Championship, and two European runner-up medals to appreciate. But each to their own…
