Liverpool can now say with a good degree of confidence that it will win the Premier League title this season.

Even so, Michael Owen has led a strange inquest into the true merits of the campaign — and Ibrahima Konate has now made the squad's feelings plain.

For 85 of the 92 members of the Football League, winning the Premier League is only a dream.



Having progressed on multiple fronts, there was vastly premature talk of trebles and quadruples (albeit not within the walls of the AXA Training Centre), laying the groundwork for the campaign to be spun as something of an anticlimax.

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Owen even suggested that winning the Premier League might leave a "bitter taste", given the cup exits.

"I completely agree — and if you ask every player or every fan what you will pick [out of] play for every trophy but you don’t know what you will get at the end of the season or maybe a chance to win the Premier League, I think all of them would say, yes, maybe a chance to win the Premier League.

"We don’t have to listen to media and think that because we didn’t win the FA Cup, the Carabao Cup or we are out of the Champions League that we have a bad season

None of the BBC's 30 pundits had Liverpool winning the league, and only one put Slot's side in the top two.

And Konate is surely also right to say that most players would take a strong shot at the Premier League over unknown outcomes across multiple competitions

Outside of the strange pundit bubble, winning the best league in the world is considered a major standalone goal.

So Liverpool will celebrate with gusto when it secures its 20th top flight title, with Konate and Van Dijk no doubt leading the festivities