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Arne Slot has backed Virgil van Dijk's response to Michael Owen's title theory(Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Arne Slot has hit back at any suggestion that Liverpool winning the Premier League title is not enough this season.

Owen said the Reds were building the season into “something really special” until a Champions League exit in the last 16 and a Carabao Cup final loss which Van Dijk took exception to.

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The Dutch boss said: “Let me understand it right, Virgil was a bit frustrated because it came across as it’s not enough to ONLY win the Premier League?



If you do it ten times in a row then I could understand that people say ‘Oh but you only win the Premier League’.

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“If [Manchester] City ONLY won the Premier League then I could understand people saying: ‘It’s not a good season for City’.

Defending champions City are battling it out in the race for Champions League qualification.

The ease at which the Reds are winning the league has led to suggestions that it is not the best competition this season.

Slot, like Pep Guardiola, points to how the likes of Nottingham Forest and Sunday's opponents Fulham are pushing for Europe while City are off the title pace as to why this league is actually stronger than ever.

Owen's comments have not gone down well at Anfield(Image: (Image: Getty))

He said: “I think the league is better than it ever was, that is what people are always saying.

I think even Pep said there will not be a team again as long as he lives that gets more than 100 points and wins the league four times in a row because so many more teams are having so many more good players.

“I think he even said what I have said the whole year, that all clubs, even some who are fighting against relegation, have some players who can play for City, for Arsenal, for us, for Chelsea and for these type of teams.

“The reason why teams you might expect to have more points don’t have them is because the league has become stronger.
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