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 anymore, because the standards are so high. We need to focus on what we want to do and how we are going to execute it, and not look too far ahead."
One of the key factors in Liverpool’s jump from top four contenders to Premier League title winners were the signings of Alisson Becker, Virgil van Dijk and Fabinho, and were signed for a combined total of £180m but all came within months of Philippe Coutinho’s £142m sale to Barcelona. Arteta acknowledges those transfers from the Reds, and believes that he and Arsenal will have to do things differently.
"I don't think we are in a position where we can do that, so we have to find other ways to do it," says Arteta. "Liverpool, as well, have improved their players immensely, which is as important as bringing players in. And then, the ones that you buy, [it's important] that they can have an impact straight away.
"That's a big decision they have to make in recruitment, and then they are human beings as well. They have to adapt, and sometimes that's a tricky question to answer before they are actually here."
