KYLE Walker believes this City team deserve to be considered one of the Premier League's greatest, but insists they can only lay claim to that tag if they go on and win the Champions League.
The Blues are in their second final in three years on Saturday and victory against Inter Milan in Istanbul will see them match United's 1999 treble winners.
City would become only the second English club to win the league title, FA Cup and European Cup in the same season, to add to the five domestic titles in six years won under Pep Guardiola.
It is a remarkable haul of silverware for a team that has rewritten the record books in the Premier League, but Walker knows conquering Europe is key to putting themselves in the conversation to be the greatest team this country has produced.
He cites United's treble winners and the Arsenal team of 2003/04 who finished the league season unbeaten as contenders for that honour, but also raised Liverpool's Champions League triumph in 2018/19 as another motivating factor.
"I think that United team, along with the [Arsenal] Invincibles, is probably up there with the best Premier League teams of all time," said Walker.
This story is from the June 08, 2023 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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