Kyle Walker reveals Manchester United and Liverpool motivation for Man City in Champions League final

Kyle Walker believes this Manchester City team deserve to be considered one of the Premier League's greatest, but insists they can only lay claim to that tag if they go on and win the Champions League.

The Blues are in their second final in three years on Saturday and victory against Inter Milan in Istanbul on Saturday will see them match Manchester United's 1999 treble winners.

City would become only the second English club to win the league title, FA Cup and European Cup in the same season, to add to the five domestic titles in six years won under Pep Guardiola.

It is a remarkable haul of silverware for a team that has rewritten the record books in the Premier League, but Walker knows conquering Europe is key to putting themselves in the conversation to be the greatest team this country has produced.

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He cites United's treble winners and the Arsenal team of 2003/04 who finished the league season unbeaten as contenders for that honour, but also raised Liverpool's Champions League triumph in 2018/19 as another motivating factor.

"I think that United team, along with the [Arsenal] Invincibles, is probably up there with the best Premier League teams of all time," said Walker.

"What us and Liverpool, to a certain extent, have done where we have been battling for the last number of years I think we should be in consideration - both teams as we both have fantastic players – but they have silverware and they have got the big Champions League trophy that we can never say we have got.

"For us to be in contention of talking around that we need to go and pick this up. We don't win five Premier Leagues in six years if we are not a good team. We