El Hadji Diouf believes that Liverpool let the League title slip away last year and they won’t win the league this year either. Former Liverpool striker believes that Liverpool won’t win the League.
El Hadji Diouf isn’t confident about Liverpool’s chances and he thinks that Liverpool won’t do as good as last year. Former Liverpool striker believes that Liverpool won’t win the League.
The Reds finished the 2018/19 Premier League season with 97 points. They missed out the League title with just one point. They, however, went on to with the UEFA Champions League.
Senegal superstar Diouf was a Liverpool player from 2002-2005. However, he has some harsh words for the Reds.
“I don’t see them(Liverpool) doing as well as they did last season. They had the chance to win the league title; Liverpool had it in their hands and then let it slip.”
“They were seven points ahead around Christmas – how Manchester City got it, in the end, beats my mind. As they say in England, I think they bottled it.”
“If you have only one defeat in a whole season, surely you can’t say that you didn’t win the league – so it’s hard for me to imagine them having such a similar season and coming out as champions,” Diouf told FourFourTwo.
He believes that City are the favourites again, “Manchester City will be the team to beat once again.”
Diouf joined Liverpool in 2002 after a very good World Cup campaign but he flopped at the club.
He still holds it against the Reds, “I’ve never hidden the fact that Liverpool didn’t treat me right and that they cherished some players better than me, even though I’d arrived with a better profile.
“Sometimes, reporters will never get what goes on in the club and in the dressing room.
“Don’t get me wrong: the club is run very well now, based on what I hear from Sadio Mane, but I feel I was seen as an outsider back then.
“The upsetting thing is that Real Madrid and Barcelona had offered me more money, but I really wanted to go to Liverpool – and it ended up being one of my worst experiences.”
That’s some prediction!
