Ruben Dias on City’s footmark on history

Ruben Dias says Manchester City will push themselves to leave a “footmark on the history of football.”

Not content with dominating the English game with four Premier League titles in the past five years, the Abu Dhabi-owned club are intent on achieving even more.

That is the belief of defender Dias, who has won championships in both his two seasons with City since joining from Benfica for £65 million.

He wants another in this campaign — and only Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United have managed this feat in three successive seasons in the Premier League era.

And that’s what City want — to lift the major honors and be remembered as one of the game’s greatest sides.

A first Champions League is another target and Pep Guardiola’s men also host Chelsea in the EFL Cup on Wednesday — a competition they have won six times in nine years.

“I think consistency is a word that can never be fulfilled,” Dias told Arab News exclusively.

“We always need to keep pushing and there is always room to get better.

“We always want more. In the end all of us want to be at the top and to be at the top you need to win.

“You can have one of the best teams in the world but you need to be there, you need to be there on the big occasions, you need to win trophies and that’s what we aim for every time.

“Yes, definitely (we want to make history), that’s in my mind.

But I always like to think about things day by day.

“I have my long-term goals but none of them would be accomplished if I didn’t think about tomorrow first.

“Success comes with no big long-term expectations, it comes with the next day and then the next day. 

“To be focused on what you are doing at the moment and not too much on how things could be, how beautiful or not