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Manchester City stand-in captain Kyle Walker says the team have a long way to go before they can be compared to Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson and Liverpool in the 1980s.<\/strong><\/p>\n
City will make history on Friday if they can beat Fluminense in the Club World Cup final in Jeddah, becoming the first English side to ever win five major trophies in a calendar year.<\/p>\n
But despite winning the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup last season, replicating United\u2019s feat in 1998\/99, Walker says City still have a way to go before people will look back and consider them as good as those teams of yesteryear.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ll be looked at differently for a good couple of years,\u201d Walker said ahead of\u00a0Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo go and achieve what the likes of Liverpool\u00a0and Manchester United did\u2026they did it year in, year out for a number of years.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo to be considered the best club in the world is obviously a great achievement but the lads know that we\u2019re just starting the building blocks for this club. Hopefully we\u2019re starting a new generation.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kyle Walker with Jack Grealish after City\u2019s dramatic 2021\/22 Premier League title success \/ James Gill \u2013 Danehouse\/GettyImages<\/p>\n
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City are bidding to win a fourth successive\u00a0Premier League\u00a0title under Pep Guardiola and a sixth in seven years, but their 2023\/24 campaign hasn\u2019t been as plain sailing as they would have liked. They have dropped points in seven games this season \u2013 including a run of one win in their last six \u2013 and lie fourth in the table behind Arsenal, Liverpool and surprise package Aston Villa.<\/p>\n
And Walker pointed out that\u00a0City\u2018s achievements, as good as they are, still pale in comparison to what United achieved under Ferguson for the best part of 20 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo go and do it like your Manchester Uniteds with your Ryan Giggs\u2019 that have won 13 league titles,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take great pride in what we\u2019ve done but for me, and we\u2019ve won five in six years, to be recognised as one of the top clubs in the world we have to do it for a little bit longer.\u201d<\/p>\n
United have failed to win a Premier League title since Ferguson retired from the game in 2012, cycling through a raft of managers in a bid to return to their former glory. City, meanwhile, have won six titles \u2013 Manuel Pellegrini\u2019s success in 2013\/14 followed up by five trophy lifts for Guardiola.<\/p>\n
Manchester City stand-in captain Kyle Walker says the team have a long way to go before they can be compared to Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson and Liverpool in the 1980s. City will make history on Friday if they can beat Fluminense in the Club World Cup final in Jeddah, becoming the first English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n
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