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With 10 Premier League games still to play, Liverpool cannot afford to get ahead of themselves.

Nevertheless, unless there is a catastrophic collapse at Anfield, Arne Slot will lead the Reds to the title at the fist time of asking.

It may seem ridiculous now, but heading into the campaign, not a single pundit had backed Liverpool to beat Man City, Arsenal or any other challenger to lift the Premier League trophy.

Few will make the same mistake ahead of 2025/26, you’d imagine.

In fact, former Reds centre-back Jamie Carragher has gone early to make Liverpool favourites next time around.

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Liverpool fans would be unwise to start celebrating anything just yet.

And according to Carragher, Slot and Liverpool are only going to get better from hereon in.

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“What I’m really excited for is that I think next season will be the first time I will ever predict Liverpool to win the league at the start of the season,” the pundit told the ‘It’s Called Soccer!’ podcast.

“Because I think next season they’ll win the league again.”

“The reason I say that is Arne Slot will know that squad and team and players so much more than he did 12 months ago and he also knows the deficiencies within the squad.”

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“He hasn’t brought a proper player yet,” Carragher continued.

“So, I’m almost excited thinking this guy’s going to look at the team thinking ‘this is the team that won the league, only lost one game all season and I think I can improve them.’

“I still think Man City will come back next season, but there’s questions about Arsenal, questions about everybody, but I think Liverpool are in a really strong position to try and kick on over the next few years under Slot.”

This is a very bold call from Carragher and Liverpool fans will be desperate simply to get this season boxed off before looking ahead to the next.

Nevertheless, there is logic to what the Liverpool legend is saying, so much so that Gary Neville weighed in to agree with his colleague, with a caveat owing to the uncertainty over Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah.

“I think there’s a massive big caveat on that,” said the former Man United captain.
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