'Completely different' - Mikel Arteta uses £180m point to make Liverpool transfer claim
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has played down following a similar path to Liverpool, and made a transfer claim about both clubs.
The Reds are currently battling for the Premier League title, as well as a host of other competitions. With the Carabao Cup already secured, Liverpool are also fighting to win the Champions League and FA Cup, which could result in an unprecedented quadruple.
Arteta is striving to get Arsenal back in the Champions League, just like Jurgen Klopp did with Liverpool back in the 2016/17 campaign. And while there are comparisons being drawn between Klopp and Arteta, the Gunners boss is playing down the standard required to win the league in comparison to when Klopp took charge in 2015.
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"There are things you can try to compare, and you can acknowledge how other clubs have been through these processes and these phases of a project, like Liverpool," Arteta told Sky Sports .
"But what the league was six years ago and what the league is today is completely different. Those leagues were won with 83, 84, 86 points. Now you need 95, 96 or 100 points to win the league.
"The context is completely different, so what was good three or five years ago is not good