Arne Slot’s side have been brilliant this season with Liverpool currently 11 points clear at the top of the Premier League from second-placed Arsenal, who have one game in hand.
Man City had won the last four Premier League titles on the bounce and now require a rebuild over the summer, with the Citizens hierarchy already investing in new players over the January transfer window.
Arsenal are now facing a third season of finishing as runners-up in the Premier League title race under Mikel Arteta and Liverpool legend Carragher reckons a Man City renaissance is more likely than the Gunners recovering to win the title next term.
Carragher said on The Overlap: “I was thinking about Arsenal and I actually think they’ve been a little bit unlucky.
“I think sometimes, it’s about timing and I think if the Arsenal of last season, if that is playing this season, this is a real sort of fight between Liverpool and Arsenal to the wire.
“Last season, you were at your best but Man City are still City. City have had the drop-off this season and I think the worry for Arsenal is and I take it back to when I played for Liverpool in that under Mikel Arteta, I think he’s been here five years and every year you get better and you get to that point and we get there under [Gerard] Houllier, we got there under [Rafael] Benitez, where you just don’t make that final step, we dropped off massively.
“Now, when you say you aren’t the team of the last two years, are you a little bit worried that we’ve actually seen peak Arsenal and Arteta?
“I think we have actually, the second half of last season I think was the best, I thought Arsenal were brilliant, as good as anyone in Europe and I was watching them every week thinking this is a proper team.
“We were talking after the game yesterday that I still think, if Liverpool go on and win the league, you can always so, who’s going to challenge the champions next season?
“I think I would still back Manchester City more than Arsenal right now.”
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